High cycle fatigue property of Ti-600 alloy at ambient temperature

摘要

Smooth axial fatigue tests were carried out at ambient temperature on one kind of near alpha titanium alloy named after Ti-600 at a frequency of 120-130 Hz and with two kinds of load ratios. The high cycle fatigue (HCF) strength for the solutioned and aged alloy is found to be 475 MPa fatigued with a load ratio R of 0.1, and which is 315 MPa with a load ratio R of -1. The observed high HCF strength for the samples fatigued with a load ratio R of 0.1 is attributed to its overlapping fine and thin plate like a+ (3 phase microstructure. During the crack propagation region, at the same stress of 600 MPa, the sample with a fatigue life of 1.78 x 106 cycles has a better fatigue resistance than that of the sample with a fatigue life of 8.61 x 105 cycles, because of its smaller striation distance, its well-developed secondary cracks, more wider and coarsened a lathes precipitated at grain boundaries, and the heavily arranged interlacing transformed (3 microsructures. The average grain size of rare earth phases varies from several micrometers to 0.2 (xm, no cracks corresponding to rare earth particles can be initiated.