“…[11,12] In addition, stress induced phase transformation such as preferred b precipitation has been reported to act as an additional stress accommodation mechanism at grain boundary. [13,14] Furthermore, quite recently, the present authors have mentioned that frequent occurrence of dynamic recrystallization (under discontinuous manner) during tensile deformation (at temperatures ranging from 700 to 900 C) of the Ti-64 alloy with an a 0 martensite starting microstructure strongly acted as an accommodation mechanism, thereby resulting in an excellent tensile ductility. [15] Motyka has also pointed out that globularization from the elongated-a-grained starting microstructure contributed to high temperature ductility of Ti alloy.…”