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A study on the grain refinement mechanism of Ti-6Al-4V alloy produced by wire arc additive manufacturing using hydrogenation treatment processes

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The effect of the hydrogen content of 0.48 wt% and 1.38 wt% on the refinement of the microstructure of Ti-6Al-4V alloy produced by wire arc additive manufacturing was studied, and the microstructure evolution of Ti-6Al-4V alloy after hydrogenation, heat treatment and dehydrogenation was revealed in this work. The result shows that the Ti-6Al-4V alloy prepared by wire arc additive manufacturing technology consist of coarse columnar β grains with the lamellar α cluster inside. After hydrogenation treatment, the α clusters inside the β grains become smaller, and hydrides were produced. Then α?, α?? and metastable phase βM were formed in the microstructure during the quenching from the temperature of Tp+ 10 °C. At last, the metastable phase and hydride were decomposed during the subsequent aging and dehydrogenation process, which significantly refines the α grains in the columnar β grains, forming a large area of a fine-grained microstructure. The shape and size of the original and hydrogen-removed grains was observed by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). The result shows that the average size of the original lamellar α grains has been refined from 5.78 μm to 0.84 μm, especially, there were no original α grains with size above 4 μm left. With the hydrogen content of 0.48 wt%, the morphology of α grains after hydrogen removal is fine needle-like, while, when the hydrogen content increases to 1.38 wt%, the morphology of α grains is equiaxed.

Grain refiningHydrogenation treatmentTi-6Al-4V alloyWire arc additive manufacturing

Zulei L.、Yanhua G.、Zhonggang S.、Lian Z.、Yaoqi W.、Xiaolong C.

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Tech Institute for Advanced Materials College of Materials Science and Technology Nanjing Tech University

Aeronautical Key Laboratory for Plastic Forming Technology

2022

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

EISCI
ISSN:0925-8388
年,卷(期):2022.890
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