Effect of Rolling Process on Microstructure and Texture of Cold Rolled Ti-6Al-4V Seamless Tubes

Abstract

In this paper, initial Ti-6Al-4V seamless tube was prepared and cold rolled to a final size of 32*2, and the microstructure and mechanical properties development was investigated, and the (0002) and (10 -10) texture was measured on XRD, pole figure calculated by Microsoft of Labotex. Pass between annealing was taken for stress-relieving, heat-treatment parameter was 800°C-1hr, furnace cooling to 500°C and then air cooling to room temperature. The results show that rolling process result in effective grain refinement and mechanical properties improvement after several rolling passes. The increase number of rolling pass improves strength but reduce the elongation, annealing improve elongation, reduce strength. A trend of texture reorientation was found in this paper also, textures of materials rolled by deformation rate were compared, different deformation rate effect texture evolution has been proved.