Incheon National University
Commercially pure titanium (CP-Ti) has been widely utilized in automobiles, aerospace, biomedical and chemical sectors owing to its low density, high specific strength, excellent corrosion resistant and good biocompatibility [1]. Despite having tantalizing properties, poor formability of titanium due to insufficient slip systems poses a bottleneck to its extensive industrial applications [2, 3]. Due to the absence of enough slip systems, twinning becomes a major contributor to accommodate the <c> axis shear strain in hexagonal close packed (hcp) metals, whether it be magnesium or titanium [4]. Of the twinning systems, {10-11} <10-12> contraction twins are activated at high temperature while {10-12} <-1011> extension twins (ETWs) and {11-22} <-1-123> compression twins (CTWs) can be profusely activated at ambient and low temperatures [5]. Apart from accommodating plastic deformation, twinning modifies the texture by reorienting the crystallographic lattice and can also lead to grain refinement via dynamic recrystallization (DRX) by the multiple twin boundaries. In this study, a systematic investigation on the twin-induced dynamic recrystallization (DRX) of commercially pure titanium was carried out under uniaxial compression test at room (RT) and cryogenic (CT, -150 oC) temperatures. The compression tests were intentionally interrupted at 2%, 5% and 10% strain levels at both deformation temperatures to examine the progressive evolution of microstructure. The detailed post-mortem analysis was performed using electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD). The results revealed that two major types of twins i.e. {10-12} extension twin (ET) and {11-22} compression twin (CT) were effectively activated at both deformation temperatures. During RT deformation, increased strain levels resulted in the higher evolution of ETs and CTs, where numerous twin lamellas, lateral twin thickening and twin-twin (ET-ET, ET-CT) interactions were observed. On the other hand, only 2% strain at CT activated high-density of deformation twins (~equivalent to 10% strain level at RT) leading to higher strain energy stored in the material which can provide the preferential sites for the recrystallization nucleation. At higher strain levels during CT compression, the twinning intensity of ET and CT kept on diminishing while the fraction of low angle grain boundaries considerably increased indicating the initiation of DRX. The DRX mechanism was identified to be twinning induced dynamic recrystallization (TDRX), where {11-22} CTs and {10-12} ETs contributed significantly to DRX due to twin dislocation interactions. TDRX lead to a substantial grain refinement form 35 µm to 3 µm during CT deformation.
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