Method for designing multi-component high-strength titanium alloy

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11149335-B2
Application number	US-201916352924-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2019
Priority date	Mar 14, 2018
Publication date	Oct 19, 2021
Grant date	Oct 19, 2021

Abstract

A method for designing multi-component high-strength titanium alloy, including the following steps: 1. smelting alloy ingots of specific compositions of the research system 2. cutting metal ingots into cubes of desired sizes; 3. preparing multi-component diffusion multiples. 4. performing vacuum-diffusion and annealing on the prepared diffusion multiples. 5. performing solution and aging treatments on the diffusion multiples after vacuum-diffusion and annealing. measuring the composition, microstructure and microhardness of different areas of the diffusion multiples, establishing the database of “composition-microstructure-hardness” correspondence of the titanium alloy. And 8. selecting a titanium alloy meeting design requirements in the titanium alloy database.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for designing multi-component high-strength titanium alloy, comprising the following steps:
(1) weighing respectively, titanium alloy raw materials—titanium alloy a Ti-b-45Zr, titanium alloy f Ti-b, titanium alloy c Ti-b-20Mo, titanium alloy d Ti-b-20Cr, and titanium alloy e Ti-b-20Fe, recording a raw material ratio of the titanium alloys, and smelting and forming the titanium alloy raw materials into five titanium alloy ingots;
(2) cutting respectively, the five titanium alloy ingots obtained in step (1) into cubes, the cubes comprising a titanium alloy a cube, a titanium alloy f cube, a titanium alloy c cube, a titanium alloy d cube, and a titanium alloy e cube;
(3) stacking and fixing the cubes obtained in step (2) sequentially in the order of the titanium alloy a cube, the titanium alloy f cube and the titanium alloy c cube, and sintering them to form a ternary diffusion multiple A;
stacking and fixing the cubes obtained in step (2) sequentially in the order of the titanium alloy a cube, the titanium alloy f cube and the titanium alloy d cube, and sintering them to form a ternary diffusion multiple B;
(4) stacking and fixing the titanium alloy d, c and e cubes as well as the ternary diffusion multiple A and the ternary diffusion multiple B obtained in step (3) in the order of the titanium alloy d cube, the ternary diffusion multiple A, the titanium alloy e cube, the ternary diffusion multiple B and the titanium alloy c cube in a length direction, and sintering them to form a multi-component diffusion multiple; in the multi-component diffusion multiple, the ternary diffusion multiple A comprises titanium alloy a, titanium alloy f and titanium alloy c from bottom to top in a height direction, and the ternary diffusion multiple B comprises titanium alloy a, titanium alloy f and titanium alloy d from bottom to top in a height direction;
(5) performing diffusion annealing treatment on the multi-component diffusion multiple obtained in step (4) to obtain composition gradient;
(6) performing solution treatment and aging treatment on the multi-component diffusion multiple obtained in step (5);
(7) grinding and polishing the surface of the sample to perform microstructure and hardness testing on a gradient region, and establishing a titanium alloy table based on the microstructure and hardness testing, wherein the titanium alloy table comprises a correspondence between composition, microstructure, and hardness for elements comprising Fe, Mo and Cr;
(8) selecting and determining a titanium alloy which has highest hardness according to the titanium alloy table obtained in step (7);
(9) melt-casting, forging the selected titanium alloy for a first time; and
(10) forging the selected titanium alloy for a second time, and heat-treating the selected titanium alloy, and performing a tensile properties test to the selected titanium alloy, and wherein:
a base alloy of the titanium alloy is Ti-b; the base alloy comprises an α-type titanium alloy and an α-β-type titanium alloy, and wherein
the α-type titanium alloy and the α-β-type titanium alloy comprise: Ti-6Al-4V, Ti-3Al-2.5V, Ti-2.5Cu, Ti-6Al-2.75Sn-4Zr-0.4Mo-0.45Si, Ti-5Al-2.5Sn, Ti-0.3Mo-0.8Ni, Ti-3Al-2.5V, Ti-6.5Al-2Zr-1Mo-1V, Ti-5.5Al-4Sn-2Zr-1Mo-1Nd-0.25Si, Ti-5.8Al-4Sn-3.5Zr-0.5Mo-0.7Nb-0.35Si-0.6C, Ti-8Al-1Mo-1V, Ti-6Al-2.75Sn-4Zr-0.4Mo-0.45Si, Ti-5.8Al-4Sn-3.5Zr-0.5Mo-0.7Nb-0.35Si-0.6C, Ti-5Al-2Sn-4Mo-4Cr, Ti4.5Al-5Mo-2Cr-2Zr-0.2Si, Ti-6Al-2.5Mo-1.5Cr-0.5Fe-0.3Si, Ti-6.5Al-1.5Zr-3.5Mo-0.3Si, Ti-5Al-4.75Mo-4.75V-1Cr-1Fe, Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-6Mo, Ti-6Al-2Sn-2Zr-3Mo-1Cr-2Nb-0.1Si.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a base alloy of the titanium alloy is Ti-b, the Ti-b is Ti-6Al4V, the titanium alloy a is Ti-6Al4V-45Zr, the titanium alloy c is Ti-6Al4V-20Mo, the titanium alloy d is Ti-6Al4V-20Cr, and the titanium alloy e is Ti-6Al4V-20Fe.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein a temperature is 1000-1400° C. and a time is 48-480 h for performing the diffusion annealing treatment.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein a temperature is 800-1100° C. and a time is 0.5-8 h for performing the solution treatment.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein a temperature is 450-650° C. and a time is 2-8 h for performing the aging treatment.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein a temperature is 950-1050° C. and a time is 3-5 h for performing sintering for the ternary diffusion multiple A and the ternary diffusion multiple B.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a distance between geometric center points of adjacent sub-regions is 100-200 μm.

Assignees

• Univ Central South

Inventors

• Liu Libin
• Wu Di
• Zhang Ligang
• Wang Zhenyu
• Sheng Jinwen

Classifications

• C22F1/183 Primary

  of titanium or alloys based thereon · CPC title

• G06F30/15 Primary

  Vehicle, aircraft or watercraft design · CPC title

• G16C20/10

  Analysis or design of chemical reactions, syntheses or processes · CPC title

• C22C14/00

  Alloys based on titanium · CPC title

• C22C1/02 Primary

  by melting {(C22C1/1036 takes precedence)} · CPC title