Metallurgical Evolutions in Hot Forging of Dual Phase Titanium Alloys: Numerical Simulation and Experiments

Abstract:

Titanium forging has been encountering a growing interest in the scientific and industrial communities because of the distinct advantages it provides with respect to machining, in terms of both mechanical properties of the product and material waste, thus significantly reducing the Buy to Fly ratio. In the paper, a numerical FE model, based on a tri-coupled approach and able to predict the microstructural evolutions of the workpiece during the process, is developed and set up. Calculated results are compared to experiments for a few industrial case studies. The final phases distribution in the forged parts is experimentally measured and compared to the FE model output finding satisfying overlapping.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 651-653)
• Pages: 225-230
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.651-653.225
• Online since: July 2015
• Authors: Antonino Ducato*, Gianluca Buffa, Antonello Astarita, Antonino Squillace, Livan Fratini, Fabrizio Micari
• Keywords: FEM, Forging, Phase Transformation, Titanium

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