Mechanisms of phase and structural transformations and texture formation in titanium alloy sheet semiproducts

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Inverse pole figures are used to analyze texture formation in sheet semiproducts made from titanium alloys of various classes. The role of the mechanisms of phase and structural transformations in texture formation has been revealed. A VT6 alloy is used as an example to study the texture formation during hot, warm, and cold rolling of high-alloy α + β titanium alloys. Hot rolling followed by cooling is shown to form the β → α transformation texture. Warm or cold rolling of α + β titanium alloys leads to the (0001)〈hkio〉 deformation texture of the α phase, and subsequent annealing in the two-phase field results in the transformation texture with a strictly determined orientation distribution of α-phase crystallites due to the shear mechanism of α-phase nucleation. Specifically, the 〈10 $$\overline 1 $$ 0〉 orientation is parallel to the rolling direction, the [0001] direction is parallel to the transverse direction, and the {11 $$\overline 2 $$ 0} planes are parallel to the rolling plane. Thermohydrogen treatment in combination with rolling is shown to form nano-and submicrocrystalline structures with a virtually textureless α phase in VT6 sheet semiproducts. As a result, the anisotropy of the mechanical properties of the sheet semiproducts produced by this new combined hydrogen technology decreases sixfold.