Research paper

Growth Behavior of Grain Boundary α Phase and Its Effect on the Microtexture During βα Phase Transformation in Ti6246 Titanium Alloys

  • QI Min ,
  • WANG Qian ,
  • MA Yingjie ,
  • CAO Hemeng ,
  • HUANG Sensen ,
  • LEI Jiafeng ,
  • YANG Riu
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  • 1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Shenyang 110016, China
    2 Shichangxu Innovation Center for Advanced Materials, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
MA Yingjie, professor, Tel: 13840026329, E-mail: yjma@imr.ac.cn

Received date: 2023-01-03

  Revised date: 2023-07-17

  Online published: 2023-07-26

Supported by

National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFC2801801);National Natural Science Foundation of China(51871225)

Abstract

The initial lamellar microstructure of titanium alloys significantly affects their microstructural evolution and mechanical property during thermo-mechanical treatments. Thus, the evolution of the initial lamellar microstructure must be explored to control the microstructure and enhance the mechanical property. The present work focuses on the evolution of the lamellar microstructure during βα phase transformation via interrupted furnace cooling experiments to analyze the growth behavior of the grain boundary α phase (αGB) and its effect on the subsequent growth of intragranular α lamellae and microtexture. Results show that when titanium alloy furnace cools from the β phase field to the α + β phase field, the αGB holding Burgers orientation relationship (BOR) with both sides of β grains (2-BOR αGB) has an advantage for early transformation at the β grain boundary. In particular, type II (49.5°/<110>) and type III (60°/<110>) β grain boundaries are preferential sites for the early nucleation of αGB particles. As the temperature decreases, α lamellae holding similar orientation to 2-BOR αGB grow to both sides of β grains. Thus, 2-BOR αGB and both sides of α lamellae form a strong microtexture at the grain boundary. At the early growth period of the α phase, the smaller the θ2-BOR (misorientation of the close-oriented αGB variant pair of parents β1 and β2) of 2-BOR αGB, the earlier the formation of a strong microtexture at the grain boundary. 2-BOR αGB preferentially precipitates, whereas the αGB holding BOR with only one side of the β grain (1-BOR αGB) nucleates. α lamellae holding a similar orientation to 1-BOR αGB grow to one side of the BOR-β grain (holding BOR with αGB), whereas α lamellae with a different orientation grow in the non-BOR-β grain. Thus, 1-BOR αGB and one side of α lamellae form a weak microtexture at the grain boundary.

Cite this article

QI Min , WANG Qian , MA Yingjie , CAO Hemeng , HUANG Sensen , LEI Jiafeng , YANG Riu . Growth Behavior of Grain Boundary α Phase and Its Effect on the Microtexture During βα Phase Transformation in Ti6246 Titanium Alloys[J]. Acta Metall Sin, 2025 , 61(2) : 265 -277 . DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2023.00002

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