Segregation mediated heterogeneous structure in a metastable beta titanium alloy with a superior combination of strength and ductility

Gao, Junheng, Nutter, John, Liu, Xingguang, Guan, Dikai, Huang, Yuhe, Dye, David and Rainforth, W. Mark (2018) Segregation mediated heterogeneous structure in a metastable beta titanium alloy with a superior combination of strength and ductility. Scientific Reports, 8. (doi:10.1038/s41598-018-25899-3).

Abstract

In β titanium alloys, the β stabilizers segregate easily and considerable effort has been devoted to alleviate/eliminate the segregation. In this work, instead of addressing the segregation problems, the segregation was utilized to develop a novel microstructure consisting of a nanometre-grained duplex (α+β) structure and micrometre scale β phase with superior mechanical properties. An as-cast Ti-9Mo-6W alloy exhibited segregation of Mo and W at the tens of micrometre scale. This was subjected to cold rolling and flash annealing at 820 oC for 2 and 5 mins. The solidification segregation of Mo and W leads to a locally different microstructure after cold rolling (i.e., nanostructured β phase in the regions rich in Mo and W and plate-like martensite and β phase in regions relatively poor in Mo and W), which play a decisive role in the formation of the heterogeneous microstructure. Tensile tests showed that this alloy exhibited a superior combination of high yield strength (692 MPa), high tensile strength (1115 MPa), high work hardening rate and large uniform elongation (33.5%). More importantly, the new technique proposed in this work could be potentially applicable to other alloy systems with segregation problems.

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Author: Dikai Guan

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