On the role of C addition on α precipitation in a β titanium alloy

Talukder Alam, Pavani Kami, Lingfei Cao, Soumya Nag, Colleen Bettles, Xinhua Wu, Rajarshi Banerjee

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Abstract

The onset of α nucleation in a carbon containing β-titanium alloy has been investigated by coupling atom probe tomography (APT) with transmission electron microscopy. The analysis of the APT results indicates that in addition to ω precipitates that can act as potential α nucleation sites, carbon atoms tend to form clusters within the β-matrix, which in turn give rise to additional nucleation sites for α, resulting in finer scale α precipitates due to increased nucleation density.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1089-1095
Number of pages7
JournalMetallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science
Volume45
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2014
Externally publishedYes

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