Microstructure and texture variations in high temperature titanium alloy Ti65 sheets with different rolling modes and heat treatments

Ti65 alloy (Ti-5.8Al-4.0Sn-3.5Zr-0.5Mo-0.4Si-0.3Nb-1.0Ta-0.8W-0.05C) is the newly developed high temperature titanium alloy optimized from Ti60 alloys. The long-term service temperature of the alloy is as high as 650 °C, which is unattainable with the previous high temperature titanium alloy. It has excellent strength and excellent creep resistance, and has great application prospects in the aerospace industry. In the current study, the evolution of microstructure and texture of Ti65 alloy sheets developed by unidirectional rolling (UDR) and cross rolling (CR) followed by solution and aging treatment was investigated. The microstructure of the UDR sample consists of equiaxed α_p, lamellar α_s and few elongated α_p, and the texture is the combination of minor B-type and major T-type texture, with the main component of basal [0001] fiber texture and [0110]< 2110 >, respectively. Due to more active slip system resulted by transformed direction, the microstructure of the CR sample consists of more elongated α_p, and the [0110]<0001> texture characterized as R-type texture forms in addition to B/T-type texture. With aging temperature increasing, the microstructures for both transform to duplex microstructure, and the thicknesses of lamellar α_s increase. B-type texture becomes stronger, while T/R-type texture are weakened, which is caused by the combination of recrystallization, spheroidization, and variant selection. An abnormal increasing of T/R-type texture but constant B-type texture happens in the CR-600 sample, which is related to high recrystallization fraction. It is expected that the research results can provide useful references for the rolling of high temperature titanium alloy sheets and the precise control of microstructure/texture.