Effects of alloying elements on nitrogen diffusion behavior around TiN/Ti interface α region in as-cast titanium alloys

To characterize the effects of alloying elements on inclusion dissolution of titanium nitride, the content profiles of elements around TiN/Ti boundary α phase regions in liquid titanium alloys have been experimentally carried out. Four kinds of commercial alloys of CpTi, Ti64, Ti17 and Ti6242 containing different α stabilizing or β stabilizing elements are examined through artificially embedding the TiN sponge particle into liquid alloys in VAR conditions. The content profiles of nitrogen and alloying elements around TiN/Ti boundary were measured by WDX and microprobe for as cast samples. The content profiles of nitrogen and alloying elements around N containing solid in α Ti region of these alloys show a common features of a steep change. In particular, the content profiles of elements for Ti6242 demonstrate unique change of a more gentle change tendency and further deeper into the alloy matrix. The experiment results show that, the differences among composite effects of alloying elements in different alloys within nitrogen induced diffusion α region result in different dissolution and diffusion behaviors to overcome the α phase region barriers.

Precipitation and Solid Solution of Titanium Carbonitride Inclusions in Hypereutectoid Tire Cord Steel

The properties of titanium carbonitride Ti（CxN1-x） inclusions precipitated during solidification of tire cord steels and the thermodynamic conditions for their decomposition and solid solution during billet heating were investigated using a thermodynamics method. The solid solution of Ti（CxN1-x） inclusions during high-temperature heating was also studied experimentally. The results revealed that： （1） the higher the content of carbon in the tire cord steel is, the greater the value of .r in the Ti（CxN1-x） inclusions is; （2） the higher the content of carbon in the tire cord steel is, the earlier the Ti（CxN1-x） inclusions precipitated during the solidification process and the lower the solidification front temperature is during precipitation; （3） when an 82A steel sample was heated to 1087℃, the Ti（CxN1-x） inclusions possess the thermodynamic conditions of decomposition and solid solution; and （4） when 82A samples were heated to 1150 and 1 250℃, the total number of Ti（CxN1-x） inclusions larger than 5μm in diameter decreased by 55.0% and 70.3%, respectively. In addition, although smaller inclusions with diameter less than 2 μm continued to decompose when the sample was heated at 1 250℃ for 2 h and then cooled to 1000℃ in the furnace, the number of inclusions larger than 5 μm in diameter increased.

Precipitation behavior of titanium nitride on a primary inclusion particle during solidification of bearing steel

Titanium nitride precipitation on a primary inclusion particle during solidification of bearing steel has been tracked by varying temperature in a confocal scanning violet laser microscope.Upon precipitation,an obvious growth of titanium nitride on a primary inclusion particle was observed due to the rapid solute diffusion in liquid steel.The onset of titanium nitride precipitation did not change with primary inclusion particle size,but the time of growth was greater for a smaller primary inclusion particle.Meanwhile,the particle size displayed little influence on the total precipitated amount of titanium nitride on it under the same conditions.At the later period of solidification,almost no change occurred in inclusion size,but the inclusion shape varied from circle to almost square in two-dimension,or cubic in three-dimension,to attain the equilibrium with steel.