Structure and properties of titanium produced by a new method of chip recycling

The recycling process yielded a well consolidated solid titanium rod with a diameter of 8 mm. The consolidation effect was high which was confirmed by the fact that only a small number of voids and discontinuities distributed randomly were observed. The final material had a homogeneous grained structure. The equiaxial grains observed on the transverse and longitudinal sections had similar sizes. The mechanical properties of the recycled material (estimated based on the results of microhardness measurements and uniaxial compression tests) were comparable with those of solid cp-titanium Grade 2.