Deformation induced phase transformations in γ-TiAl alloy under high-temperature compression.
Mohamed Keita  1, 2@  , Cecilia Solis  2  , Weimin Gan  2  , Yudong Zhang  1  , Jean-Francois Moulin  2  , Emmanuel Bouzy  1  
1 : Laboratoire dÉtude des Microstructures et de Mécanique des Matériaux
Université de Lorraine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Arts et Métiers Sciences et Technologies, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7239
2 : Helmholtz- Zentrum Hereon

Usually, the TNM alloys are composed of only α and β in the α + β phase region, for example at 1280°C. However, the thermodynamically stable phases could be destabilized when plastic deformation is introduced. Thus, in this work, we performed a uniaxial compression at 1280°C with a strain rate of 10-2 s-1 to a thickness reduction of 40 %. The deformation process was inspected in-situ under High-Energy X-ray Diffraction (HEXRD) (at DESY, Hamburg, Germany) in the macroscopic scale and the resultant microstructure was analyzed by SEM-EBSD (at LEM3, Metz, France). The in-situ HEXRD measurement revealed that from about 30% reduction the diffraction peaks of the γ phase started to appear and the intensities continuously increased with the deformation, demonstrating deformation induced phase transformation. The SEM-EBSD measurements uncovered that the γ phase was precipitated not only in the α phase but also in the β phase, and in most cases the precipitates are in lamellar shape. Further crystallographic and microstructural analyses showed that the β to γ transformation is primarily intragranular and follows the K-S orientation relationship. In contrast, the α to γ transformation occurs both intergranularly and intragranularly, adhering to the Blackburn orientation relationship in the latter case.


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