Beta-Forging of Ti6Al4V Titanium Alloy Powders Consolidated by HIP: Plastic Flow and Strain-Rate Relation

Abstract:

Ti6Al4V is probably the best known and studied titanium alloy, not only for aerospace applications. Nevertheless the deformation behavior still represents a challenge if any modification in the deformation process is required or introduced. This work deals with deformation behavior description of Ti6Al4V HIPped powders during high temperature deformation tests carried on in the Beta-region. Laboratory compression and tensile tests have been coupled with relaxation tests in order to achieve robust data about strain rate sensibility m-coefficient and activation energy Q. These results have been fitted for the assessment of a more general exponential deformation law. The final result is a “Dorn model” that takes into account and compare all the results from the three different laboratory techniques: compression, tensile and relaxation with a statistical correlation coefficient R_d²=0,78. The deformation tests have been carried out at temperatures ranging from 1173 K up to 1373 K and strain rate from 0,01 s-1 up to about 1 s-1, trying to describe the high temperature complex shape forging operations. The final results has been used and are in use for modeling the forging precursors and dies-shapes to optimize industrial small scale forging tests.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volumes 783-786)
• Pages: 613-618
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.783-786.613
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Claudio Testani, Antonino Squillace, Livan Fratini
• Keywords: Dorn Model, Plastic Flow, Ti6Al4V, Ti-Beta-Forging

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