中国有色金属学报(英文版)
Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
| Vol. 21 No. 1 January 2011 |
welded Ti-6Al-4V alloy
（1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China;
2. Laboratory of Advanced Materials Behavior Characteristics,
Beijing Institute of Technology and Institute of Space Medico-Engineering, Beijing 100081, China）
Abstract:The quasi-static and dynamic tensile behaviors in electron beam welded (EBW) Ti-6Al-4V alloy were investigated at strain rates of 10−3 and 103 s−1, respectively, by materials test system (MTS) and reconstructive Hopkinson bars apparatus. The microstructures of the base metal (BM) and the welded metal (WM) were observed with optical microscope. The fracture characteristics of the BM and WM were characterized with scanning electronic microscope. In Ti-6Al-4V alloy joint, the flow stress of WM is higher than that of BM, while the fracture strain of WM is less than that of BM at strain rates of 103 and 10−3 s−1, respectively. The fracture strain of WM has apparent improvement when the strain rate rises from 10−3 to 103 s−1, while the fracture strain of BM almost has no change. At the same time, the fracture mode of WM alters from brittle to ductile fracture, which causes improvement of the fracture strain of WM.
Key words: Ti-6Al-4V alloy; electron beam welding; quasi-static tensile behavior; dynamic behavior; fracture mode
