beta-Ti alloys with plasticity driven by dislocation glide suffer from a lack of work hardening, which is most of the time a major drawback. In this work, first attempts on the design of a new family of Ti alloys with improved strain hardening rate have been performed on two specific alloys. Those alloys, namely Ti-12Mo and Ti-9Mo-6W (wt.%), have been chosen by extending the “d-electron alloy design method” initially proposed by Morinaga et al. for the design of superelastic alloys. These new beta-metastable Ti grades were chosen as good candidates for the improvement of the mechanical properties of as-quenched beta phase thanks to expected competition between two deformation mechanisms : TRIP and TWIP effects. Mechanical tests reveal a work hardening rate never reached before by Ti alloys, while various characterization techniques revealed the mechanical activation of twinning and of alpha’’ and omega phases.
Marteleur, M., F. Sun, F. Prima, & Jacques, P. (2013). Design and Microstructural Characterization of High Performance β-Metastable Titanium Alloys Presenting Simultaneous TRIP and TWIP Effects. TMS 2013, San Antonio. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/91187