TY - JOUR
T1 - Strengthening mechanism of titanium boride whisker-reinforced Ti-6Al-4V alloy matrix composites with the TiB orientation perpendicular to the loading direction
AU - Kurita, Hiroki
AU - Suzuki, Shiori
AU - Kikuchi, Shoichi
AU - Yodoshi, Noriharu
AU - Gourdet, Sophie
AU - Narita, Fumio
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This work was performed under the inter-university cooperative research program (Proposal No. 19G0204) of the Cooperative Research and Development Center for Advanced Materials, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, and also supported by the research grant from Casio Science Promotion Foundation.
Funding Information:
This work was performed under the inter-university cooperative research program (Proposal No. 19G0204) of the Cooperative Research and Development Center for Advanced Materials, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, and also supported by the research grant from Casio Science Promotion Foundation. We express our appreciation to Koichi Harata, from Tohoku University, for support and allowing us to work on the fabrication of specimens by SPS.
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PY - 2019/8/1
Y1 - 2019/8/1
N2 - We fabricated fully dense titanium boride (TiB) whisker-reinforced Ti-6Al-4V alloy matrix (Ti6Al4V-TiB) composites, with a homogeneous dispersion, a TiB orientation perpendicular to the loading direction (; two-dimensional random direction) and an intimate Ti/TiB interface without an intermediate interfacial layer in the Ti-6Al-4V alloy matrix, by spark plasma sintering. Microstructural analysis allows us to present the tensile properties of the Ti6Al4V-TiB composites with the theories for discontinuous fiber-reinforced composites. The Ti6Al4V-TiB 10 vol.% composite yielded a Young's modulus of 130 GPa, an ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of 1193 MPa and an elongation of 2.8%. The obtained experimental Young's modulus and UTS of the Ti6Al4V-TiB composites were consistent with the theoretical values estimated by the Halpin-Tsai and Shear-lag models. The good agreement between our experimental results and these models indicates that the TiB whiskers behave as discontinuous fibers in the Ti-6Al-4V alloy matrix.
AB - We fabricated fully dense titanium boride (TiB) whisker-reinforced Ti-6Al-4V alloy matrix (Ti6Al4V-TiB) composites, with a homogeneous dispersion, a TiB orientation perpendicular to the loading direction (; two-dimensional random direction) and an intimate Ti/TiB interface without an intermediate interfacial layer in the Ti-6Al-4V alloy matrix, by spark plasma sintering. Microstructural analysis allows us to present the tensile properties of the Ti6Al4V-TiB composites with the theories for discontinuous fiber-reinforced composites. The Ti6Al4V-TiB 10 vol.% composite yielded a Young's modulus of 130 GPa, an ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of 1193 MPa and an elongation of 2.8%. The obtained experimental Young's modulus and UTS of the Ti6Al4V-TiB composites were consistent with the theoretical values estimated by the Halpin-Tsai and Shear-lag models. The good agreement between our experimental results and these models indicates that the TiB whiskers behave as discontinuous fibers in the Ti-6Al-4V alloy matrix.
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U2 - 10.3390/ma12152401
DO - 10.3390/ma12152401
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85070396519
SN - 1996-1944
VL - 12
JO - Materials
JF - Materials
IS - 15
M1 - 2401
ER -