Abstract
The effects of ω precipitates and orthorhombic (α″) martensitic transformation on stress-strain behavior were studied in metastable β Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al alloy single-crystal in submicron scales. We successfully distinguished the size effects induced by ω precipitates and α″ phase transformation through compressing the metastable β Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al along the orientation of <011>β, which is unfavorable for α″ phase transformation. Two individual exponential curves express well the relationship between the strengthening exponents, which were regressed using the flow stresses at different ranges of plastic strains of 0.2–13% and the pillar widths, and the corresponding plastic strain. It is worth noting that the strengthening exponent jumps from 0.256 to 0.293 at 8% plastic strain. Double size effects are uncovered in metastable β Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al alloy single-crystal micropillars. The first (ω precipitate-related) size effect has been predicted with the proposed models, and the second (martensitic transformation-induced) size effect is interpreted with the modified Liu's equation.
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