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Acta Metall Sin  2017, Vol. 53 Issue (9): 1038-1046    DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2017.00035
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Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Properties of TC4 Titanium Alloy During Acculative Roll Bonding Process
Guohuai LIU(), Tianrui LI, Mang XU, Tianliang FU, Yong LI, Zhaodong WANG, Guodong WANG
State Key Laboratory of Rolling and Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
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Guohuai LIU, Tianrui LI, Mang XU, Tianliang FU, Yong LI, Zhaodong WANG, Guodong WANG. Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Properties of TC4 Titanium Alloy During Acculative Roll Bonding Process. Acta Metall Sin, 2017, 53(9): 1038-1046.

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Abstract  

TC4 titanium alloy is highly promising for aerospace and medical implant applications due to its low density, high strength, corrosion resistance and biocompatibility, and the ultra-fine grains of TC4 alloy by accumulative roll bonding (ARB) can efficiently improve the low temperature super-plasticity and biocompatibility for its widespread applications. However, the ARB process for TC4 alloy has been limited due to the high deformation resistance and low anti-oxidant ability. In this work, ARB was conducted for the ultra-fine grains of TC4 titanium alloy, and the effects of ARB temperatures and layer numbers on the bonding interface and microstructure were investigated as well as the deformation mechanism of the mixed α /β phase structure, and the influences of ARB processing on the mechanical properties were studied. The good interface bonding could be fabricated by the proper ARB temperature (near 720 ℃), the anti-oxidation treatment and the multilayer with the high deformation, which always takes on the hardened interface with the high oxidation contents, and the interface bonding strength increases with the increase of the ARB layers and temperature through the process of the diffusion and the necking fracture. The deformation process is composed by the cooperation deformation of α /β structure and the shear deformation during ARB processed TC4 alloy, during which the β phase at the grain boundary changes from the long strips to the short bands to deform with hcp α phase, while the shear bands with severe local-deformation is used to adapt the severe plastic deformation. The deformed microstructure is composed of the equiaxed structure (about 300 nm spacing) and the elongated deformation structure (about 400 nm spacing), in which the equiaxed structure comes from the function of the deformation temperature, local shear deformation and the local overheat. Additionally, the inhomogeneous microstructure and properties along the thickness direction can be observed, and the high hardness can be obtained at the bonding interface, which gradually distributes homogeneous with the increase of ARB layers. The strength of ARB processed TC4 sheets increases with the increase of ARB layers, which can get to 1325 MPa after 16 ARB layers, and simultaneously the plasticity decreases to 5.4%. The ductile fracture can be observed with the low ARB layers, while the mixed structure of the quasi-cleavage and ductile fracture is obtained with the increase of ARB layers.

Key words:  TC4 titanium alloy      ARB process      interface bonding      microstructure      mechanical property     
Received:  13 February 2017     
ZTFLH:  TG331  
Fund: Supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China (Nos.2016YFB0301201 and 2016YFB-0300603), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51504060) and PhD Start-up Foundation of Science Project of Liaoning Province (No.201501150)

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Fig.1  Variations of the bonding interface of the ARB processed TC4 alloy without (a) and with oxidation protection under rolling temperatures of 600 ℃ (b), 650 ℃ (c), 680 ℃ (d), 700 ℃ (e) and 750 ℃ (f) (ARB—acculative roll bonding)
Fig.2  Morphologies and solute distributions of the bonding interface for the TC4 alloy with 2 ARB cycles(a) macrostructure (b) microstructure for the new ARB interface(c) microstructure for the initial interface(d) solute distributions near the initial interface along the dotted line in Fig.2c
Fig.3  Low (a1~c1) and high (a2~c2) magnified images of the bonding interface (arrows) for the TC4 alloy with different ARB layers (a1, a2) 2 layers (b1, b2) 8 layers (c1, c2) 12 layers
Fig.4  Curves of the interface spacing and the contact bonding percent along the interface for the ARB processed TC4 alloy with different temperatures (a) and ARB layers (b)
Fig.5  Microstructures of TC4 alloy with different ARB layers(a) initial microstructure (b) 2 layers (c) 4 layers (d) 8 layers (e) 12 layers (f) 16 layers
Fig.6  TEM images of typical microstructures and deformed structures of the TC4 alloy during the ARB process(a) fine equiaxed structure (b) elongated lamellar structure (c) deformed β grain (d) sub-grain formation at the boundary (e, f) dislocation stacking in β grain
Fig.7  Curves of microhardness for the TC4 alloy with different ARB layers along the thickness direction
Fig.8  Curves of the ultimate strength and elongation for the TC4 alloy with different ARB layers
Fig.9  Fracture morphologies of the TC4 alloy with different ARB layers(a) 2 layers (b) 4 layers (c) 8 layers
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