In order to improve the tensile properties of additively manufactured Ti 6Al 4V parts, specific heat treatments have been developed. Previous work demonstrated that a sub-transus thermal treatment at 920°C followed by water quenching generates a dual-phase α+α′ microstructure with a high work-hardening capacity inducing a desirable increase in both strength and ductility. The present study investigates the micromechanical behavior of this α+α′ material as well as the thermal stability of the metastable α' martensite. To that end, annealing of the α+α′ microstructure is performed and the resulting microstructural evolution is analyzed, along with its impact on the tensile properties. A deeper understanding of the micromechanics of the multiphase microstructure both before and after annealing is achieved by performing in-situ tensile testing within a SEM, together with digital image correlation for full-field local strain measurements. This approach allows the strain partitioning to be quantified at a microscale and highlights a significant mechanical contrast between the two phases. In the α+α′ microstructure, the α′ phase is softer than the α phase, which is confirmed by nanoindentation measurements. Partial decomposition of the martensite during annealing induces a substantial hardening of the α′ phase, which is attributed to fine-scale precipitation and solution strengthening. A scale transition model based on the iso-work assumption and describing the macroscopic tensile behavior of the material depending on the individual mechanical behavior of each phase is also proposed. This model enables to provide insights into the underlying deformation and work-hardening mechanisms.
Mechanical and functional properties of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) ferritic/ martensitic steels are strongly related to their microstructures. Thus, numerical modeling of microstructure evolution during ODS forming is of prime importance. In this work, two well-known full field methodologies dedicated to recrystallization modeling, the level-set and the Monte Carlo methods, are applied, discussed and compared to experimental data in their ability to describe properly recrystallization for ODS steels.
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