The Lattice Parameters and Residual Stresses in Bulk Nanocrystalline and Ultrafine-Grained Titanium

Abstract

Lattice parameters and residual stresses in the bulk nanocrystalline/ultrafine-grained titanium were studied by X-ray diffraction methods. The investigated samples were prepared using the method of the cryomechanical grain structure fragmentation with multiple rolling at the temperature of liquid nitrogen to the true strain value |e| = 3. Phasic change of the a and c parameters has been found with increasing degree of cryoreduction. This change was stronger for the parameter a. The observed change parameters associated with a relative slip and twinning activity (initial cryo-reduction stage) as well as the formation of the nanocrystalline state (at higher degree of deformation). The most likely source of residual stresses arising in titanium at cryorolling is heterogeneous plastic deformation. The production of nanocrystalline / ultrafine-grained titanium using cryomechanical grain fragmentation method is accompanied by the formation of uniform compressive residual stresses in the informative deformable layer of billet.