A study of the mechanism of α to β phase transformation by tracking texture evolution with temperature in Ti–6Al–4V using neutron diffraction

This paper reports a pioneering investigation of the orientation change of the α phase after recrystallization and the mode of transformation from the α to the β phase on heating above the β transus in the α/β alloy Ti–6Al–4V by in situ texture measurements done at room temperature, 800 °C, 1020 °C and again at room temperature using the HIPPO neutron time-of-flight diffractometer at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center.