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Hot-torsion testing was used to establish the cavitation behavior of a typical alpha/beta titanium alloy, Ti-6Al-4V, with a colony microstructure, during simple-shear deformation. For this purpose, sections of deformed specimens were examined by optical metallography, and by scanning and orientation-imaging microscopy (OIM). It was found that cavity nucleation occurred along prior beta boundaries as well as at triple points; in particular, most cavities nucleated along boundaries perpendicular to the axial direction of the specimen. Extensive growth was observed for cavities surrounded by both hard and soft orientations, with the soft colonies accommodating more of the imposed strain. At high degrees of deformation, dynamic globularization of the colony microstructure adjacent to the cavities was also observed. In addition, the metallographic observations revealed that the cavities did not grow in an equiaxed mode, but in an elliptical manner. A tensor describing the cavity-growth rate along the axial, radial, and hoop specimen directions was determined using measurements of individual cavity sizes. The cavity-growth behavior in torsion was compared to previous observations from hot-tension tests. This comparison indicated that the rate of cavity growth in shear was approximately one-tenth that in uniaxial tension. This finding is in broad agreement with models predicting the variation of the cavity-growth rate as a function of the ratio of the mean stress to the hydrostatic stress.
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Nicolaou, P.D., Miller, J.D. & Semiatin, S.L. Cavitation during hot-torsion testing of Ti-6Al-4V. Metall Mater Trans A 36, 3461–3470 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-005-0019-1
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