Metallurgical modelling of Ti-6Al-4V for welding applications

Matteo Villa; Jeffery W. Brooks; Richard Turner; Frédéric Boitout; Robin Mark Ward

doi:10.3390/met11060960

Metallurgical modelling of Ti-6Al-4V for welding applications

Matteo Villa^*, Jeffery W. Brooks, Richard Turner, Frédéric Boitout, Robin Mark Ward

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Metallurgy and Materials

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Abstract

Manufacturing processes such as welding subject the α/β titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V to a wide range of temperatures and temperature rates, generating microstructure variations in the phases and in the precipitate dimensions. In this study, the metallurgical and numerical modelling of Ti-6Al-4V when subjected to a high energy density welding process was affected by a series of analytical equations coded in Sysweld commercial specialist FE welding software. Numerical predictions were compared with experimental results from laser welding tests on plates with different thicknesses, initial microstructural morphologies, and operating conditions. The evolution of the microstructure was described by using a diffusion-based approach when the material was operating in the α + β field, whilst empirical equations were used for temperatures above the β-transus temperature. Predictions made by the subroutines within the FE model were shown to match with reasonable trends when validated using experimental characterisation methods for various metallurgical features, including the α particle size, β grain size, martensitic needle thickness, and relative phase volume fractions.

Original language	English
Article number	960
Number of pages	20
Journal	Metals
Volume	11
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/met11060960
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2021

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Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support received from ESI-UK and ESI-Group in this work. Additional thanks are given to the technical support team from ESI-Group for their assistance with Sysweld, Visual Weld, and Visual Viewer software modelling. Many thanks are given to colleagues at the School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, for support with the microhardness kit, optical microscopy, and SEM facilities.

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© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Keywords

Finite element
Microstructure
Ti-6Al-4V
Transformation
α phase
β phase

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General Materials Science
Metals and Alloys

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