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Residual elastic strains in a bent bar of titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V were measured using high energy diffraction on station 16.3 at SRS Daresbury. Using a single bounce Laue crystal monochromator, diffraction peaks were collected for reflections (00.2), (10.1), (10.2) and (11.0) from the hcp alpha phase of the titanium alloy. Reference values of the lattice spacing for each of the reflections were found from the diffraction pattern collected from a stress-free sampling volume. The residual elastic strain values calculated on the basis of each reflection were then computed and plotted as a function of position across the bent bar. The average macroscopic residual elastic strain was computed using an averaging procedure taking into account the multiplicity of each reflection. Energy dispersive white beam diffraction from the same bent bar was used to collect diffraction patterns over the range of lattice spacings between 0.8 and 2.2 Å. Detector calibration was carried out using the procedure described in Liu et al. (2005) and detailed interpretation of the energy dispersive profiles was carried out allowing the identification of average residual elastic strains in the two principal phases present in the titanium alloy considered, the α-Ti hcp and the β-Ti bcc phases. Peak-specific residual strain profiles computed on the basis of monochromatic measurements show significant differences reflecting the variation in the elastic and plastic properties with grain orientation, i.e., crystal anisotropy. Using the contrast between the elastic and plastic properties of different directions within the α-Ti hcp lattice, the difference between residual elastic strains measured for (00.2) and (11.0) reflections was plotted, as well as the ‘difference strain’ between (00.2) and (10.1) reflections. These profiles show a good qualitative correlation with the plastic strain profile introduced by inelastic bending that was computed from the analysis of Pawley refinement of the energy-dispersive diffraction measurements.
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Korsunsky, A.M., Liu, J., Golshan, M. et al. Measurement of Residual Elastic Strains in a Titanium Alloy Using High Energy Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction. Exp Mech 46, 519–529 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-006-8250-2
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