Study of crack propagation mechanisms during Charpy impact toughness tests on both equiaxed and lamellar microstructures of Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy

MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING

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Buirette, Christophe¹  Huez, Julitte¹  Gey, Nathalie^2,3  Vassel, Alain⁴  Andrieu, Eric¹ 

[1] ENSIACET, Inst Carnot CIRIMAT, F-31030 Toulouse, France

[2] Univ Lorraine, Lab Etude Microstruct & Mecan Mat LEM3, UMR CNRS 7239, F-57045 Metz 1, France

[3] Univ Lorraine, DAMAS, Lab Excellence Design Alloy Met Low Mass Struct, Nancy, France

[4] Assoc Francaise Titane, F-44105 Nantes 4, France

关键词: Titanium alloys;    Impact toughness;    EBSD;    Microstructure;    Ti-6Al-4V;    Macrozone;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.msea.2014.09.048

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

The impact toughness of two highly textured rolled plates of Ti-6Al-4V alloy with an alpha equiaxed and an alpha lamellar microstructures has been investigated. The results show a strong anisotropy of the fracture energy for both materials and underline that a coincidence of the prismatic planes with the shear bands at the notch tip is favorable for higher fracture energies. Moreover, it is pointed out, as it was already done by previous studies, that the alpha lamellar microstructure presents higher fracture energy than the alpha equiaxed one. Thanks to electron back scattering diffraction, and tensile tests, local microstructure heterogeneities, called macrozones, have been observed and characterized. Their size depends on microstructure element and is larger for alpha lamellar microstructure than for the alpha equiaxed. High strain is localized on the macrozones favorably oriented for prismatic slip with respect to the direction of impact and leads to a particular dimple free zone on the fracture surface. The contribution of these macrozones in the fracture behavior, and more precisely on the crack propagation rate was evaluated; thus the effects of the macroscopic texture and of the microstructure element on the impact toughness are discussed separately. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.

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