Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 1992, Vol. 5 ›› Issue (8): 83-86.

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EQUIAXED REFINEMENT OF GRAINS IN ALLOY TC11

SU Zuwu MENG Guowen GUO Hongzhen LIU Jianchao YAO Zekun Northwestern Polytechnical University,Xi'an,ChinaYANG Zhaosu HU Zongshi Baoji Non-Ferrous Metals Mill,Baoji,China   

  • Received:1992-08-11 Revised:1992-08-11 Online:1992-08-11 Published:2009-10-10

Abstract: The formation reason and elimination method of non-uniform microstructure defects in Ti al- loy TC11 bar have been studied.The coagulating and coarsening into block of the part of grain boundary α and secondary α seem to be caused by the ingot cogging and initial forging temperature in the β region as well as no more enough deformation and uneven distribution. The grain α,elongated α and blocky α may be finally eliminated by adopting the technique of (α+β)thermomechanical processing+β processing,W.Q.+recrystallization annealing,A.C., thus the size of uniform and fine equiaxed α structure is believed to be reduced to 1.9258μm.

Key words: TC11 Ti alloy, forging, microstructure, equiaxed grain refinement