• Julien, Renaud

Abstract

This research is part of the TiMaS project (Titanium Machining and Simulation). The main goal of this project is to develop an analysis and optimization tool of the global production process to control and assess the generation of residual stresses for titanium alloys structures parts. Residual stresses can be generated during thermal and mechanical treatment quenching steps. The main goal of this work is to study the mechanical behaviour and the microstructural evolution of Ti-6Al-4V alloy, induce by quenching from the α+β phase field, and incorporate these results in a modelling approach. For this purpose, a new experimental facility, using conventional hydraulic testing machine and induction heating, was developed to investigate the mechanical behaviour of Ti-6Al-4V alloy under different thermal and mechanical loads. This experiment has permitted to realise tensile/relaxation/tensile tests. Furthermore, an image analysis protocol was developed to study fraction of α and β phases and αII lamellae thickness. Microstructural observations can explain some aspects of the material hardening during quenching. Two mechanical behaviour models were proposed to assess the mechanical behaviour of the Ti-6Al-4V alloy. The first one is an elasto-visco-plastic model with isotropic hardening that taking account of the static recovery. It can predict the mechanical behaviour under different quenching rates. The second one is a non-unified model based on a phases mixing law. It permits a better assessment of the mechanical behaviour and allows the modelling of the yield point phenomenon by using mobile dislocations motion.

Topics

• impedance spectroscopy
• polymer
• phase
• experiment
• simulation
• dislocation
• titanium
• titanium alloy
• isotropic
• quenching
• lamellae