MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ELECTRON BEAM WELDMENT OF TITANIUM ALLOY TC17

Abstract

Most titanium alloys have been designed for aeronautical applications, where their excellent specific properties are fully employed and weldability is a classic problem with Ti and its alloys. Microstructure and mechanical properties of the electron beam weldments of TC17 alloy were investigated in this work. The results showed that there exhibited three zones across the TC17 electron beam weldment: the fusion zone (FZ), heat affected zone (HAZ) and base metal (BM). It was also observed that the as-welded FZ consisted of metastable b columnar grains, while the HAZ consisted of acicular a/a′ phase, equiaxed a phase and metastable b phase. Furthermore, it was indicated that the transformation from metastable b phase to a+b phase happened when the FZ and HAZ were post-weld heat treated at 630~800 °C, the coarsening of a laths and the grain boundary a were also observed when the heat treatment temperature increased. The increasing of 450 °C ultimate tensile strength of FZ was ascribed to the precipitation of secondary acicular a platelets during tensile testing in the as-welded and 800 °C heat treated conditions, which led to the low yield ratio of FZ. The tensile failure location of the weldments was found to occur in preference in the low tensile yield strength area, or in the low hardness area when the difference between yield strength across the weldments is very small. It was concluded that the optimal post-weld heat treatment *收到初稿日期: 2015-11-20,收到修改稿日期: 2016-01-28 作者简介:于冰冰,男, 1986年生,博士生 DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2015.00602 第831-841页 pp.831-841