Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5463310 | Materials Letters | 2017 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
The superplasticity of a Ti-42.5Al-8Nb-0.2W-0.2B-0.1Y (at.%) alloy with â¼20 vol% metastable β/B2 phase has been examined at temperature range of 850-1050 °C under an initial strain-rate of 10â4 sâ1. The results showed that though the proposed alloy has a coarse and bimodal grain structure which was unfavourable for fine-structure superplasticity, impressive elongation was obtained at 1000 °C (â¼380%) with a strain-rate sensitivity exponent value of about 0.46. The microstructural characterization showed that remarkable dynamic recrystallization occurred during superplastic tension, and the initial texture-free specimen gradually produced a ã1 0 0ã fiber texture whose the main component was cube texture. All these observations seem to be contradictory to the classical theory for fine-structure superplasticity (grain boundary sliding mechanism). Instead, it was suggested that the major deformation mechanism in this alloy was crystallographic slip accompanied by discontinuous dynamic recrystallization.
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Authors
Liang Cheng, Yi Chen, Jinshan Li, Emmanuel Bouzy,