High-strength titanium alloys for aerospace engineering applications: A review on melting-forging process

Q Zhao, Q Sun, S Xin, Y Chen, C Wu, H Wang… - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
As a crucial branch for titanium industry, high-strength titanium alloys (HS-TAs, with UTS≥
1100 MPa) are indispensable structural materials for advanced engineering applications …

Deciphering the transformation pathway in laser powder-bed fusion additive manufacturing of Ti-6Al-4V alloy

J Chen, D Fabijanic, T Zhang, EW Lui, M Brandt… - Additive …, 2022 - Elsevier
The nature of rapid cyclic heating and cooling in metal additive manufacturing poses a great
challenge in the control of microstructure while a metallic part is being built. With metastable …

Designing ultra-strong and ductile hierarchical titanium alloys via interstitial solute-mediated multi-morphologic α-nanoprecipitates

H Zhang, J Zhang, S Liu, D Zhang, G Liu, J Sun - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
In conventional duplex titanium (Ti) alloys, the soft primary α-precipitates (α p) are beneficial
to ductility with the loss of high yield strength, while the continuous α-precipitates at grain …

Making a low-cost duplex titanium alloy ultra-strong and ductile via interstitial solutes

H Zhang, J Zhang, J Hou, D Zhang, Y Yue, G Liu, J Sun - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Interstitial solutes (eg O, N) often enhance strength; however, their poisoning effect leads to
markedly decreased ductility and even embrittlement in titanium (Ti) alloys. Thus, using …

Investigating phase transformation, densification and diffusion mechanism of TiH2 powder to achieve a high ductile Ti6Al4V alloy

F Kuang, Y Pan, J Sun, Y Liu, C Lei, X Lu - Journal of Materials Processing …, 2024 - Elsevier
The challenges of micro-pores resistant to closure and significant ductility loss during the
pressureless sintering of titanium (Ti) alloy powder mixtures have been overcome through …

[HTML][HTML] Strain controlled fatigue behaviour of a wire+ arc additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V

AK Syed, R Plaskitt, M Hill, Z Pinter, J Ding… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents the cyclic deformation behaviour and fatigue properties of a wire+ arc
additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V alloy in the as built condition under strain-controlled test …

Variant selection of α precipitates formed at β triple junctions in titanium alloy

Y Zhang, R Xin, K Wang, Q Liu - Materials Characterization, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the orientation of the product phase during β to α phase transformation, ie,
the transformation texture is important for optimizing the microstructure and mechanical …

High-strength titanium alloy with hierarchical-microstructure design via in-situ refinement-splitting strategy in additive manufacturing

Z Yao, M He, J Yi, M Yang, R Shi, C Wang, Z Zhong… - Additive …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microstructure design of high-strength materials based on single-principal-microstructure
advantage can hardly meet the increasingly strict service requirements of modern aviation …

Effect of microstructure on impact fracture mechanism of a high-strength Ti-5Al-7.5 V-0.5 Si-0.25 Fe-0.2 O alloy

J Dai, B Tang, Y Chu, K Liu, G Zheng, X Chen… - Materials Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The impact property of high-strength Ti-5Al-7.5 V-0.5 Si-0.25 Fe-0.2 O alloy (Ti575) with
trimodal microstructure (TM) and lamellar microstructure (LM) were investigated by …

Discovering the role of the defect morphology and microstructure on the deformation behavior of additive manufactured Ti–6Al–4V

J Liu, K Zhang, J Liu, R Zhang, Z Zeng, Y Zhu… - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The defects remain a significant issue for additive manufactured titanium alloys, which
hinders their further market penetration. In this work, we proposed a new understanding of …