Structure and mechanical properties of the annealed TZAV-30 alloy

The Ti-30Zr-5Al-3V (wt.%, TZAV-30) alloy having good mechanical properties is a potential structural material to apply in the aerospace industry. The microstructure and mechanical properties of ZTAV-30 alloy underwent various annealing heat treatments were investigated. The specimens annealed from 500 to 800 degrees C are composed of alpha and beta two phases. No compound is detected in specimens annealed in that temperature range. The microstructure of annealed specimens is characterized as a typical basket-weave microstructure. Three microstructural parameters, thickness of plate alpha phase, relative fraction of beta phase and aspect ratio of alpha grains, were measured in those annealed specimens. As the alloy annealed in the range from 500 to 800 degrees C, the average thickness of plate alpha grains increases with the increasing annealing temperature from 500 to 700 degrees C but decreases while annealed at 800 degrees C. The fraction of retained beta phase increases with annealing temperature. And the aspect ratio of plate alpha grains decreases firstly but increases while the annealing temperature is higher than 700 degrees C. As the variation of those three microstructural parameters, the strength of examined alloy varies from 1269 to 1355 MPa for tensile strength and from 1101 to 1190 MPa for yield strength, inversely, the elongation changes in the range from 12.7% to 8.4%. The strengthening and toughening mechanism of the TZAV-30 alloy with basket-weave microstructure is also discussed in this paper. Crown Copyright (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.