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Crystallography of grain boundary α precipitates in a β titanium alloy

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The crystallography of α(hcp) precipitates formed on the β(bcc) matrix grain boundaries has been studied with transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in a Ti-15V-3Cr-3Sn-3Al alloy. The α precipitates have a near-Burgers orientation relationship with respect to at least one of the adjacent β grains. Among the possible 12 variants in this orientation relationship, the variant that [11•20]α is parallel to the 〈111〉β closest to the grain boundary plane tends to be preferred by the α precipitates. Additionally, further variant selections are made so as to minimize the deviation of orientation relationship with respect to the “opposite“ β grain from the Burgers one. Such rules in variant selection often result in the formation of precipitates with a single variant at a planar grain boundary. Prior small deformation of β matrix changes the variant of α precipitates at the deformed portion of grain boundary. It is considered that the stress field of dislocations in the slip bands intersecting with the boundary strongly affects the variants of α precipitates. Discussion of these results is based upon a classical nucleation theory.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, 606-01, Kyoto, Japan

    T. Furuhara (Research Associate) & T. Maki (Professor)

  2. Iron and Steel Research Laboratory, Kawasaki Steel Corp., 260, Chiba, Japan

    S. Takagi

  3. Kobe Steel Ltd., 251, Fujisawa, Japan

    H. Watanabe

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Formerly Graduate Student, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University

Formerly Graduate Student, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University

This article is based on a presentation made during TMS/ASM Materials Week in the symposium entitled “Atomistic Mechanisms of Nucleation and Growth in Solids,“ organized in honor of H.I. Aaronson’s 70th Anniversary and given October 3–5, 1994, in Rosemont, Illinois.

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Furuhara, T., Takagi, S., Watanabe, H. et al. Crystallography of grain boundary α precipitates in a β titanium alloy. Metall Mater Trans A 27, 1635–1646 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02649821

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