In-situ EBSD characterization of deformation behavior of primary alpha phase in Ti-6Al-4V

Abstract

Uniaxial tension experiments and electron back-scatter diffraction were performed on a bimodal Ti-6Al-4V alloy to study the deformation behavior of primary hcp-Ti (αp). It was found that the obtained tensile strength and elongation of the studied Ti-6Al-4V from the in-situ tensile test are higher than of which derived from the regular tensile test. The strain could be accommodated by the activation of slip systems and by grain rotations during the deformation. The prismatic slip is the primary slip mode of αp. According to kernel average misorientation analysis, we found that the dislocations mainly distributed near grain boundaries and subgrain boundaries, and partially located around slip lines. Calculated rotation angles and average rotation rates show that the rotation heterogeneity occurred among grains and subgrains.