Superplastic behaviour of Ti54M and Ti64Show others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: The 14th World Conference on Titanium (Ti 2019), EDP Sciences, 2020, Vol. 321, article id 04028Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
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Abstract [en]
Even though TIMETAL-54M (Ti-5Al-4V-0.6Mo-0.4Fe or Ti54M) has been commercially available for over 10 years, further study of its superplastic properties is still required in order to assess its applicability within the aerospace industry as a potential replacement for other commercial titanium alloys such as Ti-6Al-4V (Ti64). Ti54M is expected to obtain superplastic characteristics at a lower temperature than Ti64 due to its lower beta-transus temperature. The superplastic forming (SPF) capability of alloys that can be formed at lower temperatures has always attracted the interest of industry as it reduces the grain growth and alpha-case formation, leading to longer life for costly high temperature resistant forming tools. In this work, the SPF characteristics of both Ti54M and Ti64 have been examined by conducting tensile tests according to the ASTM E2448 standard within a range of temperatures and strain values at a fixed strain rate of 1x10-4 /s. A high strain rate sensitivity and uniform deformation at high strains are key indicators in selecting the optimum superplastic temperature. This was observed at 815˚C and 925˚C for Ti54M and Ti64 respectively. The tensile samples were water quenched to freeze their respective microstructure evolution following superplastic deformation and SEM images were captured for grain size and volume fraction of alpha-phase analyses. A slightly higher alpha-grain growth rate was observed during superplastic deformation of Ti64. The initial fine-grain microstructure of Ti54M (~1.6 micron) resulted in a final microstructure with an average grain size of ~3.4 micron and optimum the alpha/beta ratio. Both the fine-grained microstructure and increased amount of beta-volume fraction promotes the superplastic behaviour of Ti54M by grain boundary sliding (GBS). Thus superplastic properties were observed for Ti54M at a lower temperature (~100˚C) than for Ti64.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
EDP Sciences, 2020. Vol. 321, article id 04028
Series
MATEC web of Conferences ; 21
Keywords [en]
superplastic properties, aerospace industry, superplastic characteristics, Ti54M, Ti64
National Category
Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified Other Materials Engineering Metallurgy and Metallic Materials
Research subject
Technology (byts ev till Engineering), Mechanical Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-111249DOI: 10.1051/matecconf/202032104028OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-111249DiVA, id: diva2:1655491
Conference
The 14th World Conference on Titanium
Note
Author confirmed conf proc: have req'd acceptance email and AAM. 23/10/19 DC ^Author confirmed 24/10/19: 'This is a conference proceedings to be released as an Open Access publication in MATEC Web of Conferences (Open Access proceedings in Materials Science, Engineering and Chemistry) at the end of this year.' Asked author to let us know when published. ET 25/10/19 AAM: will be OA, made open ET 25/10/19 ^Further check re status, author confirmed still NYP at 9/7/20 ET ^^Published OA, replaced AAM with VoR. ET 27/10/20 Gold exception applied, published OA and to best of our knowledge this was immediate OA. ET 27/10/20; Conference contribution
2022-05-022022-05-022022-05-03Bibliographically approved