Superplasticity of nanostructured Ti-6Al-7Nb alloy with equiaxed and lamellar initial microstructures processed by High-Pressure Torsion

Microstructural modifications of a biomedical Ti-6Al-7Nb alloy were accomplished via heat treatment in 3 different quenching mediums and then processed by High-Pressure Torsion (HPT) at room temperature. The microstructure of the as-received condition is composed of an equiaxed duplex (α+β) structur...

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Veröffentlicht in:IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering 2017-05, Vol.194 (1), p.12041
Hauptverfasser: Cubero-Sesin, Jorge M., Gonzalez-Hernandez, Joaquin E., Ulate-Kolitsky, Elena, Edalati, Kaveh, Horita, Zenji
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Zusammenfassung:Microstructural modifications of a biomedical Ti-6Al-7Nb alloy were accomplished via heat treatment in 3 different quenching mediums and then processed by High-Pressure Torsion (HPT) at room temperature. The microstructure of the as-received condition is composed of an equiaxed duplex (α+β) structure. After the heat treatment, a combination of primary α phase and lamellar structures was obtained with an increasing fraction of the martensitic lamellar with increasing cooling rate. After HPT processing, refinement of the microstructures was observed for N=5 revolutions. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of the sample quenched in liquid nitrogen confirmed the nanostructure with grain sizes below 100 nm and high density of lattice defects after HPT processing for N=5 revolutions. High-temperature tensile tests were carried out at 800 °C with an initial strain rate of 2×10−3 s−1 on specimens with different combinations of heat treatment and HPT straining. The test in the as-received condition presented a maximum elongation to failure of ~400% after HPT processing for N=5 revolutions. The highest elongation to failure in the heat-treated samples was ~580% in the sample quenched in liquid nitrogen and processed for N=5 revolutions.
ISSN:1757-8981
1757-899X
DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/194/1/012041