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The influence of prior cold deformation on precipitation of alpha phase and variation of hardness in Ti-10Mo-8V-1Fe-3.5Al during aging treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

J. Sun*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, People's Republic of China
P. Ge
Affiliation:
Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research, Xi'an 710016, People's Republic of China
*
a) Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: junsun@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
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Abstract

The influence of prior cold deformation on precipitating of alpha phase as well as the variation of hardness during aging has been investigated in solution-treated Ti-10Mo-8V-1Fe-3.5Al alloys. The results show that alpha phase precipitation could be obviously accelerated by the prior cold deformation. In the predeformed samples, a network pattern structure was observed with an optical microscope after aging treatment. It could be attributed to the phenomenon that the plate-shape alpha precipitates prefer to nucleate and grow in the regions with a high density of dislocations, especially inside slip bands. The hardness of both the predeformed and undeformed TB3 specimens after different aging times was measured and further predicted by a proposed strengthening model based on the grain refinement mechanism of the beta phase. The predicted results are consistent with the experimental results, especially in the later aging stages.

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