Effect of Isothermal Forging on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of TiAl-Based Alloys

2013 ◽  
Vol 275-277 ◽  
pp. 2176-2181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Liang Sun ◽  
Ze Wen Huang ◽  
De Gui Zhu

The effect of isothermal forging on microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-44Al-4Nb-4Zr-0.2Si-1B alloys were investigated by means of BSE, TEM, tensile and the high cycle fatigue test at room temperature. The results showed that the lamellar thickness and volume fraction of equiaxed γ phases and B2+ω phases decreased, the grain size and volume fraction of lamellar α2+γ colonies was raised after isothermal forging. The lamellar was bending. The tensile strength and yield strength was increased by 80MPa although the total elongation hardly changed. The fatigue limit was increased by 230MPa. The effect of boride, lamellar thickness and B2+ω phases on the mechanical properties were studied.

1990 ◽  
Vol 213 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.E. Dowling ◽  
W.T. Donlon ◽  
J.E. Allison

ABSTRACTAxial load controlled high cycle fatigue experiments were conducted on the γ/α2 alloy, Ti-48A1-1V-0.2C (at%), at 23 and 815°C. Four different microstructures, produced through thermomechanical processing, were evaluated to examine the influence of grain size and α2 content on fatigue behavior. The load controlled fatigue life was significantly reduced by increasing grain size and unaffected by α2 content at both 23 and 815°C. Although, α2 content did not greatly influence high cycle fatigue life, the room temperature crack initiation and fast fracture was changed from transgranular to partially intergranular as the volume fraction of α2 was reduced in the fine grain size material. The fatigue strength at 107 cycles (FS) to ultimate tensile strength (UTS) ratio was 0.8 to 0.9 at 23°C and 0.5 to 0.6 at 815°C for all microstructures examined. Low tensile ductility, high work hardening rate and the difficulty in forming strain local-izations all aided the high FS/UTS ratio. The dislocation microstructures produced by fatigue at room temperature were examined in the fine grained high α2 (ductile) microstructure. They consisted of loop patches of all <110] regular dislocations without any <101] or <011] super dislocations because of the large difference in CRSS for these dislocation. The inability to nucleate and move superdislocations inhibited the formation of persistent slip bands as is often found in high and intermediate stacking fault FCC metals.


2010 ◽  
Vol 97-101 ◽  
pp. 153-157
Author(s):  
Tao Wang ◽  
Hong Zhen Guo ◽  
Jian Hua Zhang ◽  
Ze Kun Yao

The microstructures and room temperature and 600°C tensile properties of Ti-5.8Al-4.0Sn-4.0Zr-0.7Nb -0.4Si-1.5Ta alloy after isothermal forging have been studied. The forging temperature range was from 850°C to 1075°C, and the constant strain rate of 8×10-3/S-1 was adopted. With the increase of forging temperature, the volume fraction of primary α phase decreased and the lamellar α phase became thicker when the temperatures were in range of 850°C -1040°C; The grain size became uneven and the α phase had different forms when the forging temperature was 1040°C and 1075°C respectively; The tensile strength was not sensitive to the temperature and the most difference was within 20MPa. Tensile strength and yield strength attained to the maximum when temperature was 1020°C; the ductility decreased with the increase of forging temperature, and this trend became more obvious if forging temperature was above the β-transus temperature.


2007 ◽  
Vol 560 ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Gutiérrez C. ◽  
Armando Salinas-Rodríguez ◽  
Enrique Nava-Vázquez

The effects of heating rate and annealing temperature on the microstructure and mechanical properties of cold rolled Al-Si, low C non-oriented electrical steels are investigated using SEM metallography and uniaxial tensile tests. The experimental results show that short term annealing at temperatures up to 850 °C result in microstructures consisting of recrystallized ferrite grains with sizes similar to those observed in industrial semi-processed strips subjected to long term batch annealing treatments. Within the temperature range investigated, the grain size increases and the 0.2% offset yield strength decreases with increasing temperature. It was observed that the rate of change of grain size with increasing temperature increases when annealing is performed at temperatures greater than Ac1 (~870 °C). This effect is attributed to Fe3C dissolution and rapid C segregation to austenite for annealing temperatures within the ferrite+austenite phase field. This leads to faster ferrite growth and formation of pearlite when the steel is finally cooled to room temperature. The presence of pearlite at room temperature decreases the ductility of samples annealed at T > Ac1.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1004-1005 ◽  
pp. 123-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Yin ◽  
Xiu Jun Ma ◽  
Jun Ping Yao ◽  
Zhi Jian Zhou

Effect of pulsed magnetic field treatment on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Mg97Y2Zn1 alloy has been investigated. When the pulsed magnetic field is applied on the alloy in semi-solid state, the α-Mg was modified from developed dendrite to fine rosette, resulting in a refined solidification microstructure with the grain size decreased from 4 mm to 0.5 mm. The volume fraction of the second phase ( X phase) increased by about 10 %. The yield strength, fracture strength and plasticity were improved by 21 MPa, 38 MPa and 2.4 %, respectively. The improvement of mechanical properties was attributed to the refined grain size and increased volume fraction of X phase.


2014 ◽  
Vol 881-883 ◽  
pp. 1396-1399
Author(s):  
Chen Jun ◽  
Quan An Li

The microstructure and mechanical properties of magnesium alloy AZ61wtih1% Sn addition has been studied in this paper. The results show that the addition of 1% Sn can refine the grain size and improve the microstructure morphology of β-Mg17Al12 phase. The addition of Sn can cause the formation of Mg2Sn phase in AZ61 alloy, which can effectively enhance the mechanical properties of magnesium alloy AZ61 at room temperature and 150°C.


2011 ◽  
Vol 236-238 ◽  
pp. 1939-1944
Author(s):  
Pei Qing La ◽  
Xin Guo ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
Chun Jie Cheng ◽  
Xue Feng Lu ◽  
...  

Microstructure and mechanical properties of bulk nanocrystalline Fe3Al based alloy with 10 wt. % Mn prepared by aluminothermic reaction after annealing at 600, 800 and 1000°C for 8 h were investigated in order to gain insights in effects of annealing. Crystal structure of the alloy did not change and a fiber phase with enriched Mn appeared in the annealed alloy. Grain size of the alloy changed a little after annealing at 600°C but increased a lot after annealing at 800 and 1000°C. The annealed alloy had plasticity in compression at room temperature and the alloy annealed at 1000°C had yield strength of 782 MPa. The alloy without annealing has creep properties in compression at 800 and 1000°C and can be easily hot rolled to strip and sheet.


2011 ◽  
Vol 415-417 ◽  
pp. 1537-1544
Author(s):  
Hua Qiang Liu ◽  
Di Tang ◽  
Zhen Li Mi ◽  
Zhen Li

The grain size and the distribution of crystal orientation have an important effect on the mechanical properties of wrought AZ31B magnesium alloy sheets. Because the AZ31B magnesium alloy sheets rolled by conventional rolling have a poor formability at room temperature, a new rolling technology of differential speed rolling is used to improve the mechanical properties of AZ31B magnesium alloy. The research shows that the number of twinning crystal decreases, the number of the core of dynamically recrystallized grain increases, and the grain size become fine and isotropy by differential speed rolling with the increase of the reduction and the improving of the rolling temperature to some extent. The differential speed rolling not only improves the isotropy of the basal texture and also improves the microstructure and mechanical properties.


Author(s):  
Matteo Benedetti ◽  
Cinzia Menapace ◽  
Vigilio Fontanari ◽  
Ciro Santus

The present paper investigates the variability in the static and cyclic properties of two nominally identical supplies of the aeronautical Al grade 7075-T6. Samples were extracted from extruded bars of 15 mm and 60 mm diameter and with slightly different chemical composition. Noticeable differences were found in tensile strength, total elongation, low- and high-cycle fatigue strength, despite the nearly identical hardness value. The diverse mechanical behavior has been imputed to different extrusion ratio and therefore work hardening along with a more or less fine distribution of precipitates and dispersoids. The high-cycle fatigue strength was found to be in direct correlation with the monotonic yield strength and the size of the largest intermetallic precipitate. A simple equation based on Murakami sqrt(area) parameter is proposed to predict the fatigue endurance. Tensile tests and microstructural analyses are recommended instead of conventional hardness tests to have a tighter quality control on the mechanical properties of semifinished products.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 7427
Author(s):  
Juraj Belan ◽  
Lenka Kuchariková ◽  
Eva Tillová ◽  
Miloš Matvija ◽  
Milan Uhríčik

Concerning the use of modern technologies and manufacturing systems in the production of high-stress components from Ni-base superalloys and the optimization of the production process, knowledge of the microstructure–mechanical properties relationship is very important. The microstructure of Ni-base superalloys is very closely related to the chemical composition. With the high number of alloying elements, various phases are presented in the structure of Ni-base superalloys, which have a predominantly positive effect on the mechanical properties, but also phases that reduce, in particular, the heat resistance of these materials. The aim of the presented paper is the quantification of structural parameters of two types of cast alloys, ZhS6K and IN738, where the effect of dwell at 10 and 15 h at 800 °C on the change in morphology and volume fraction of the γ′-phase precipitate was studied. The detected changes were verified by the Vickers hardness test. The IN718 superalloy was chosen as a representative of the wrought superalloy. This alloy was also annealed for 72 h at a temperature of 800 °C, and the quantification of structural parameters was performed by EDS mapping and TEM analysis. Another partial goal was to assess the effect of changes in the volume fraction of the γ′-phase and δ-phase on the change in the high-cycle fatigue life of superalloy IN 718. This superalloy was tested by dynamic cyclic loading with cycle asymmetry parameter R = −1 at an ambient temperature of 22 ± 5 °C and at a temperature of 700 ± 5 °C and with cycle asymmetry parameter R < 1 (three-point bending load) after annealing at 700 °C/72 h. The results of the quantitative analyses and fatigue tests will be further used in optimizing the design of Ni-base superalloy components by modern technologies such as additive technologies for the production of turbine blades and implemented within the philosophy of Industry 4.0.


2015 ◽  
Vol 816 ◽  
pp. 729-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Zhang ◽  
Hua Ding ◽  
Jing Wei Zhao

A refined microstructure consisting of martensite and retained austenite at room temperature has been produced in a Nb-microalloyed low carbon Si-Mn steel by a novel heat-treatment, pre-quenching prior to quenching and partitioning processes (Q&Q-P). The results showed that compared with the conventional quenching and partitioning steel the mechanical properties of steel obtained by the novel treatment have been significantly improved, with a good combination of ultimate tensile strength (1000MPa) and total elongation (above 30%). Meanwhile, the volume fraction of retained austenite has been increased. It was found that the improvement of mechanical properties was mainly attributed to the enhanced TRIP effect due to the relatively high fraction of metastable retained austenite at room temperature. The increased stability of austenite results from the C and Mn partitioning during inter-critical annealing, which increased the chemical stability of austenite. The formation of refined austenite at inter-critical annealing also had a positive effect on the stability of the austenite. As a consequence, the volume fraction of retained austenite at room temperature was significantly increased. Compared with the Q-P steel, the Q&Q-P steel exhibited higher work hardening exponents during the stage of TRIP effect and had the higher ductility.


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