| publication name | Superplastic deformation behavior of ultra-fine-grained Ti-1V-4Al-3Mo alloy: constitutive modeling and processing map |
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| Authors | AO Mosleh, AV Mikhaylovskaya, AD Kotov, M Sitkina, P Mestre-Rinn, JS Kwame |
| year | 2019 |
| keywords | constitutive modeling; titanium alloy; activation energy; superplasticity; processing maps |
| journal | Materials Research Express |
| volume | 6 |
| issue | 9 |
| pages | 096584 |
| publisher | IOP Publishing |
| Local/International | International |
| Paper Link | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2053-1591/ab31f9/meta |
| Full paper | download |
| Supplementary materials | Not Available |
Abstract
This paper studies the superplasticity of conventional sheets of Ti-1V-4Al-3Mo (α + β) alloy. The flow behavior was investigated in a temperature range of 775 °C–900 °C and a constant strain rate range of 2 × 10−4–5 × 10−3 s−1 via uniaxial tensile tests. The microstructure evolution during the superplastic deformation was analyzed. The results revealed that, the flow behavior of Ti-1V-4Al-3Mo (α + β) alloy is characterized by strain softening phenomena. The experimental stress-strain data were used to build a power law constitutive model. A processing map, which shows the safe and unsafe regions of deformation, was also constructed for the studied alloy. The optimal deformation regime was attained at a temperature of 875 °C and strain rate of 1 × 10−3 s−1 which provided a β phase fraction of 52%. Equiaxed fine-grained α and β structure with size of 2–3 μm as well as dislocation activity inside the α-grains were identified in the optimum deformation regime