Experimental study of thermodynamic and fatigue properties of submicrocrystalline titanium under high cyclic and gigacyclic fatigue regimes

Abstract

This paper presents an experimental study of the mechanical and thermal behavior of titanium samples (Grade 2 and Grade 4) with different grain sizes under cyclic loading. The self-heating test demonstrates that the structure of the material has a strong effect on the dissipation ability of titanium. The threshold of energy dissipation corresponding to the transition through the fatigue limit is shown for coarse-grained titanium. On contrary, submicrocrystalline samples exhibit the dependence of continuous energy dissipation on the applied stress amplitude. Analysis of the fatigue properties of titanium in a gigacyclic regime provides evidence that grain grinding improves substantially the fatigue properties of the material.

Keywords

Submicrocrystalline titanium infrared thermography self-heating test gigacyclic fatigue regime

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