Enhanced formability and forming efficiency for two-phase titanium alloys by Fast light Alloys Stamping Technology (FAST)
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Author(s)
Wang, Liliang
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
During hot stamping of titanium alloys, insufficient forming temperatures result in limited material formability, whereas temperatures approaching the β phase transus also result in reduced formability due to phase transformation, grain coarsening and oxidation during the long-time heating. To solve this problem, Fast light Alloys Stamping Technology (FAST) is proposed in this paper, where fast heating is employed. Effects of heating parameters on the formability and post-form strength were studied by tensile tests. Forming of a wing stiffener was performed to validate this new process. Results show that microstructure of TC4 alloy after fast heating was in nonequilibrium state, which could enhance ductility significantly compared with the equilibrium state. When TC4 alloy was first heated to 950 °C with heating rate of 100 °C/s and then cooled to 700 °C, the elongation at 700 °C was more than 3 times that of a slow heating rate with soaking. Nano-scaled martensite with high dislocation density transformed from β phase was observed under fast heating condition. A complex shaped wing stiffener was successfully formed from TC4 titanium alloy in less than 70 s including heating, transfer and forming, and the post-form strength was almost the same with the initial blank.
Date Issued
2020-09-01
Date Acceptance
2020-07-04
Citation
Materials and Design, 2020, 194, pp.1-12
ISSN
0264-1275
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
1
End Page
12
Journal / Book Title
Materials and Design
Volume
194
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127520304822?via%3Dihub
Subjects
Materials
0910 Manufacturing Engineering
0912 Materials Engineering
0913 Mechanical Engineering
Publication Status
Published online
Date Publish Online
2020-07-11