Evolution mechanism of lamellar α and interlayered β during hot compression of TC21 titanium alloy with a widmanst(a)tten structure

• 作者: Xiaoyu ZHENG Ke WANG Cheng ZHANG Renlong XIN Qing LIU
• 来源期刊: 中国航空学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2022,（3）
• 页码范围: 475-483
• 页数: 9页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

TC21 titanium alloy,as an important metal to fabricate the aircraft structural compo-nents,has attracted great attentions recently.A TC21 titanium alloy with widmanst(a)tten structure was isothermally compressed.Based on the microstructure observation,the evolution of initial β grain,Grain Boundary α phase (αGB),lamellar α and interlayered β was systematically investigated.The results showed that,with the increasing of height reduction,the αGB underwent an evolution process from bending/kinking to breaking inducing the corresponding blurring of initial coarse β grain outline.Meanwhile,a significant phase transformation from α to β took place at the termi-nations of broken αGB.The evolution of lamellar α and interlayered β in the colony was closely related to their deformation compatibility.In the α colony,the interlayered β experienced a larger deformation amount than lamellar α.The higher distortion energy promoted the occurrence of Dynamic Recovery (DRV) and Dynamic Recrystallization (DRX) to generate many Low Angle Boundaries (LABs) and High Angle Boundaries (HABs) in interlayered β,which induced an appar-ent grain refinement of β phase.On the contrary,the lower distortion energy and low deformation temperature suppressed the occurrence of DRV/DRX and restrained the globularization of lamellar α.Furthermore,the microstructure observation clearly revealed that the shearing separation mech-anism dominated the evolution of the α phase from lamellar to short bar-like morphology.