Isothermal β heat treatments of Ti-6.5 Al-3.5 Mo-1.5 Zr-0.3 Si alloy were performed at the temperature of1040-1240 ℃ to examine the influence of heating conditions on grain growth of the alloy. The results show that the grain size increases with heating temperature and holding time increasing. Rapid β grain growth of the alloy takes place at the temperature of over 1140 ℃. The grain growth kinetics for the alloy follows the classical isothermal grain growth law.The growth time exponent(n) of 0.5651 and activation energy(Q) of 129.6 kJ mol-1 are determined. Finally, in order to determine the grain size under different heating conditions,the grain growth model of the alloy was established.
The hot deformation behavior of Ti-5.6Al-4.8Sn-2.0Zr-1.0Mo-0.35Si-0.85 Nd alloy in β/quasi-β forging process was studied using isothermal compression tests over temperature range from 1040 ℃ to 1100 ℃ and strain rates form 0.001 s^(-1)to 70 s^(-1)The results show that the flow stress and microstructure are sensitive to thermomechanical parameters.The processing maps based on the dynamic materials model at strain of 0.3 and 0.7 were established.The optimum deformation thermomechanical parameters at a strain of 0.7 have two regions that exhibit the peak of power dissipation efficiency.One is the region of 1062-1100 ℃ and 10^(-3)-10^(-1.5)s^(-1); and another which represents dynamic recrystallization is 1040-1045 ℃ and 10^(-1.8)-10^(-0.9)s^(-1)The instable region is located where the strain rate is larger than 1 s^(-1)which corresponds to the mechanical instability.
