Grain-scale Stress and GND Density Distributions around Slip Traces and Phase Boundaries in a Titanium Alloy

Abstract

For TA15 titanium alloy, slip is the dominant plastic deformation mechanism because of relatively high Al content. In order to reveal the grain-scale stress field and geometrically necessary dislocation (GND) density distribution around the slip traces and phase boundaries where the slip lines are blocked due to Burgers orientation relationship (OR) missing. We experimentally investigated tensile deformation on TA15 titanium alloy up to 2.0% strain at room temperature. The slip traces were observed and identified using high resolution scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) measurements. The grain-scale stress fields around the slip traces and phase boundaries were calculated by the cross-correlationbased method. Based on strain gradient theories, the density of GND was calculated and analyzed. The results indicate that the grain-scale stress is significantly concentrated at phase/grain boundaries and slip traces. Although there is an obvious GND accumulation in the vicinity of phase and subgrain boundaries, no GND density accumulation appears near the slip traces.

Keywords

grain-scale stress / slip traces / phase boundaries / titanium alloy

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