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Friction welding of conventional Ti-6Al-4V alloy with a Ti-6Al-4V based metal matrix composite reinforced by TiC

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Titanium alloys are supreme structural materials primarily due to their high specific strength. However, their wide use is largely restrained by the high cost of raw titanium compared to other metals commonly used in structural alloys. Layered structures of titanium alloys allow substantial increase of the material utilisation ratio and therefore draw significant attention. The rational ways of layered parts fabrication are bonding or joining of individually optimised layers into a final complex structure. The use of friction welding to join the parts is one of the most attractive ways of achieving a desirable result, since it is a solid state and near-net-shape process that modifies the structure of connected parts only locally. The study goal was to validate feasibility of the layered structures of Ti-6Al-4V (Ti-64) alloy and metal matrix composite (MMC) on its base with 10% of TiC fabricated by rotary friction welding (RFW) and linear friction welding (LFW). Both initial structures, Ti-64 and MMC, were made using low-cost blended elemental powder metallurgy. RFW and LFW were successfully used to bond the sections of the alloy and its composite. TiC particles stabilise the structure and are not fragmented by friction welding under used processing parameters.

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Acknowledgements

Authors are thankful to Dr. Krassimir N. Bozhilov from the Department of Materials Science, University of California Riverside for performing the EBSD experiment and to Dr. Ric Kaner and Dr. Chris Turner from the Department of Chemistry, University of California Los Angeles for use of the microhardness measurement capabilities.

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The following authors SVP, DGS, PEM, OOS and JP received funding from the NATO Agency Science for Peace and Security (#G5030).

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Sergey V. Prikhodko & James Penney

  2. G.V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 36, Vernadsky Blvd., Kyiv, 03142, Ukraine

    Dmytro G. Savvakin, Pavlo E. Markovsky & Olexander O. Stasuk

  3. Institute of Materials Science, Joining and Forming, Graz University of Technology, Kopernikusgasse 24 A-8010, Graz, Austria

    Norbert Enzinger

  4. Taylor-Winfield Technologies, Inc., 3200 Innovation Place, Youngstown, OH, 44509, USA

    Michael Gaskill & Frank Deley

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Prikhodko, S.V., Savvakin, D.G., Markovsky, P.E. et al. Friction welding of conventional Ti-6Al-4V alloy with a Ti-6Al-4V based metal matrix composite reinforced by TiC. Weld World 65, 415–428 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40194-020-01025-8

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