BETA-TITANIUM ALLOY AND METHOD OF ITS THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC C22C14/00 C22F1/18 B82B3/00 

FIELD: metallurgy.

SUBSTANCE: beta-titanium alloy with ultrafine-grained structure consists of beta-phase gains with mean size not exceeding 0.5 mcm, precipitations of secondary alpha-phase particles of spherical shape and mean size not exceeding 0.5 mcm and volume fraction in the structure making at least 40%. Proposed method comprises intensive plastic deformation and thermal treatment. Thermal treatment is carried out before deformation by heating to temperature exceeding that of polymorphic conversion by 5-15°C for, at least, one minute for 1 mm of diameter cross-section and quenching in water. Intensive plastic deformation is performed by equal-channel angular pressing with changing deformation direction through 90 degrees after every deformation cycle at (T_"пп"-200…T_"пп"-150)°C with total accumulated deformation e≥3.5 and subsequent quenching in water.

EFFECT: higher strength and fatigue characteristics of alloys.

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