Why do cracks occur in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy during post-weld heat treatment?

Ultrasonic pulse frequency tungsten inert gas welding technology was adopted to join Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy. There were some cracks in the Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy weld joint after post-weld heat treatment. The hardness and Young’s modulus of α₂, O, and β/B2 phases in Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy were examined with an in situ nanoindentation technique. The phase transition stresses of three different phases in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy were analyzed to explain why cracks occur in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy during post-weld heat treatment. The results show that mean hardness is highest for the α₂ phase, second-highest for the O phase, and lowest for the β/B2 phase; the mean Young’s modulus has the same trend in Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy. Phase transition stress results in cracks in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy during post-weld heat treatment. By improving post-weld heat treatment, the ultimate strength of the Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy weld joints reaches 750 MPa, which is 72.5% that of the base material.

1 Introduction

Ti₂AlNb-based alloys, known as orthorhombic alloys, have drawn much attention for having great potential in advanced automotive and aerospace applications due to their high specific strength and stiffness, excellent oxidation and creep resistance at elevated temperatures, good room temperature toughness and workability, as well as low density (Zhang et al., 2021a; Han et al., 2022; Li et al., 2022; Zhang et al., 2022). As a second generation of Ti₂AlNb-based alloys, Ti-22Al-25Nb (at%) alloy exhibits high strength and large elongation to failure at both room and elevated temperatures and thus attracts interest in scientific circles (Yang et al., 2019; Zhou et al., 2019). In some cases, Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy, like any structural material, must be welded to fabricate components with complex geometries. The joining of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy has been conducted using various welding technologies, such as diffusion bonding welding (Zou et al., 2009; Chu et al., 2017), electron beam welding (Chen et al., 2016; Li et al., 2017), laser beam welding (Zhang et al., 2021b; Zhang et al., 2021c), and friction welding (Chen et al., 2018; Zhao et al., 2020). The main shortcomings of these Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy welding methods are their high cost and limited versatility.

In a previous study (Shao et al., 2018a), we adopted ultrasonic pulse frequency tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding technology to join Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy, due to its advantages of versatile workpiece shape requirements, low cost, and simplicity. Post-weld heat treatment (PWHT) is widely used to relieve the residual stresses caused by welding (Somashekara et al., 2016) and can stabilize the structure and properties of the joints (Panov et al., 2022). Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy, which primarily consists of a two-phase β/B2 + O microstructure, has the optimum combination of strength, creep, and fracture toughness properties (Zhang et al., 2021d). In order to completely remove the residual stress and to have a similar strength as the base material, PWHT was carried out on the weld joint Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy at the temperature range of the β/B2 + O two-phase region. However, cracks were found in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy after PWHT.

Nanoindentation has become an increasingly popular technique for determining the properties of various materials (metals, composites, polymers, coatings, films, etc.) (Ma et al., 2020; Rominiyi and Mashinini, 2023). The technique has been used for extracting residual stress field (Zhou et al., 2015), investigating the phase transformation process (Wang et al., 2017), and examining the hardness and Young’s modulus (Jin et al., 2023). In particular, the in situ nanoindentation technique is conducted using a scanning electron microscope (SEM), which can visualize the behavior of the material in real-time (Juri et al., 2021). In this study, an in situ nanoindentation technique was used to examine the hardness and Young’s modulus of three different phases in the Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy. Load–displacement (P-h) curves were converted to indentation stress–strain (σ-ε) curves in order to analyze the phase transition stresses of the three different phases in the weld joints of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy and to better explain why cracks occur in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy during PWHT.

2 Materials and methods

A Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy butt joint with a high ultimate strength was obtained by ultrasonic pulse frequency TIG welding technology under welding parameters of 50 KHz pulse frequency, 125 mm min^-1 welding speed, 80 A peak current, 35 A base current, 13 L min^-1 argon gas flow, a welding wire of 1.5 mm diameter, and a welding torch polarity of electrode-positive direct current. A schematic illustration of the experimental setup is shown in Figure 1A and the weld seam appearance of the butt joint is presented in Figure 1B. At the location indicated by the rectangular box in Figure 1B, the specimen was cut along the cross-section by wire cutting used for PWHT. Microstructural features of the cross-section of the weld joint observed using an optical microscope (OM) are given in Figure 1C and exhibit three different zones: fusion zone (FZ), heat-affected zone (HAZ), and base material (BM). The weld joints of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy after welding were heat treated in an STF1200 tube furnace under argon atmosphere, followed by heating (10°C s^-1 heating rate) to 800°C, 850°C, and 900°C, in that order, including a 2-h hold at each temperature, and then cooling to room temperature by decreasing the furnace temperature (Liu, 2013). Table 1 shows that the ultimate strength of weld joints is higher before PWHT than after PWHT.

FIGURE 1

FIGURE 1. Welding of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy: (A) schematic illustration of the experimental setup; (B) weld seam appearance of the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy; (C) weld joint includes three different zones: fusion zone (FZ), heat-affected zone (HAZ), and base material (BM).

TABLE 1

TABLE 1. Ultimate strength of the weld joints of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy before and after post-weld heat treatment.

Optical microscopy for metallurgical examination of the weld joints was performed on a Keyence VHX-500F digital optical microscope, after the specimens were cut perpendicular to the welding direction of the joint using electro-discharge machining (EDM). The cross-sections of the specimens were polished for microstructural characterization. The samples were ground with wet abrasive paper and mechanically polished using a velvet cloth to obtain mirror-polished sections and then etched in a solution containing 2 mL HF, 2 mL HNO₃, and 80 mL ultrapure water to reveal the microstructure. The cross-sections of the weld joints before and after PWHT are shown in Figure 2. Cracks in the weld joint can be clearly seen after PWHT. We seek to answer the question: why do these cracks occur in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy during PWHT?

FIGURE 2

FIGURE 2. Macromorphology of the weld joints of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy: (A) before post-weld heat treatment and (B) after post-weld heat treatment. (C) Magnification of the area indicated by the rectangular box in (B).

The phase constituents of the Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy plate were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD, Bruker D8 Avance) using Cu–Kα radiation at a diffraction angle of 2θ from 10 to 90° with a step width of 0.02° and a scan speed of 3° min^-1. The microstructure of the Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy plate was characterized by scanning electron microscopy using a Hitachi SU8230 cold-field emission (CFE) microscope. An extremely smooth surface of the observed sample was obtained by grinding with 2,500-grit paper and polishing to a 0.05-μm surface. In situ nanoindentation tests were performed to determine the elastic and plastic properties of phases at room temperature using a Hysitron Triboindenter with a Berkovich tip. Load-controlled indentations were made using a constant loading rate of 100 μN s^-1 up to maximum load of 500 μN and then equilibrated at 500 μN for 2 s before unloading.

3 Results and discussion

To answer the question “why do cracks occur in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy during PWHT?”, a Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy plate consisting of β/B2 matrix, equiaxed α₂ particle, and lath-shaped O phase (Figure 3) was adopted. The phase constituents of the Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy plate were examined by XRD (Figure 3A). The microstructure of the Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy plate (Figures 3B,C) was observed with an SEM. The dark phase corresponds to the α₂ phase, the gray phase corresponds to the O phase, and the lightest phase is the β/B2 phase. The phases in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy before PWHT contained α₂ (D0₁₉ structure based on Ti₃Al), O (Cmcm system based on Ti₂AlNb), and either β (disordered structure, the allotrope of titanium) or B2 (ordered structure) (Shao et al., 2018b; Zavodov et al., 2021), as shown in Figure 4.

FIGURE 3

FIGURE 3. X-ray diffraction pattern (A) and microstructure (B) and (C) of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy. Dark phase corresponds to α₂ phase, gray phase corresponds to O phase, and lightest phase is β/B2 phase.

FIGURE 4

FIGURE 4. X-ray diffraction patterns of different zones in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy before post-weld heat treatment: (A) fusion zone (FZ), (B) heat-affected zone (HAZ).

The lattice parameters of the body-centered cubic β/B2 phase were a = b = c = 0.328 nm, α = β = γ = 90°, and V = 0.03516 nm³ (from PDF Card No. 01–077–3482). The lattice parameters of the hexagonal close-packed α₂ phase were a = b = 0.576 nm, c = 0.466 nm, α = β = 90°, γ = 120°, and V = 0.13420 nm³ (from PDF Card No. 01–074–4579 (Novoselova et al., 2004)). The lattice parameters of the orthorhombic O phase were a = 0.609 nm, b = 0.957 nm, c = 0.467 nm, α = β = γ = 90°, and V = 0.27193 nm³ (from PDF Card No. 01–072–8492 (Mozer et al., 1990; Wei et al., 2017)). The densities of β/B2, α₂, and O phases were calculated as density = (mass of atoms in the unit cell)/(volume of unit cell) (Kasap, 2001), as shown in Table 2. The densities of the three different phases in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy follow the order O phase > β/B2 phase > α₂ phase. Therefore, it can be concluded that the volumes of the three different phases follow the order α₂ phase > β/B2 phase > O phase. The B/G ratio of the bulk modulus to the shear modulus is an index of ductility; the larger the ratio, the higher the ductility (Tanaka et al., 1996). The B/G ratio of the three different phases in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy (Table 2) shows that the ductility of the β/B2 phase is the highest, α₂ phase second, and O phase lowest.

TABLE 2

TABLE 2. Density (ρ) and elastic constants such as bulk modulus (B), shear modulus (G), B/G ratio, and Poisson’s ratio (υ) for β/B2, α₂, and O phases (Pathak and Singh, 2015).

Cai et al. (2016) reported that the hardness of the β/B2 phase (6.11 GPa) was higher than that of the O phase (3.85 GPa) in Ti₂AlNb alloy. However, Yang et al. (2012) proposed that the hardness of the O phase (6.6 GPa) was higher than that of the β/B2 phase (4.75 GPa) in Ti₂AlNb alloy. In this study, in situ nanoindentation technology was adopted to examine the hardness of the three different phases in Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy. Figure 5A shows the loading contact between the Berkovich tip and α₂ phase. The continuous stiffness measurement (CSM) method was used for all the nanoindentation experiments (Datye et al., 2016; Shao et al., 2017). E_s (E is the Young’s modulus and the subscript s refers to the different phases) can be given by the following equation (Oliver and Pharr, 1992; Choudhury and Ladani, 2014):

$E_s={\left(\frac{1-0.000872E_r}{E_r}\right)}^{-1}\left(1-{\upsilon }_s^2\right),(1)$

where υ is the Poisson’s ratio and the subscript s refers to the different phases. The υ of the three different phases in Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy is presented in Table 2. E_r is the reduced modulus estimated from the unloading part of the P-h curve as (Oliver and Pharr, 1992)

$E_r=\frac{\sqrt{\pi }}{2}\frac{S}{\sqrt{A}},(2)$

where S is the unloading stiffness, taken as the slope of the curve at the beginning of unloading and A is the projected contact area. Phase hardness (H) is given using the expression for an indentation,

$H=P/A(3)$

FIGURE 5

FIGURE 5. In situ nanoindentation test of the three different phases in Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy. (A) Image was extracted from an SEM video recorded during the indentation test; (B) mean hardness and mean Young’s modulus of the three different phases; (C) their typical load–displacement (P-h) curves; and (D) their indentation stress–strain (σ-ε) curves.

where P is the applied load. The mean hardness and mean Young’s modulus of the three different phases in Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy measured by the in situ nanoindentation method are shown in Figure 5B, which shows that the mean hardness is highest in the α₂ phase, second-highest in the O phase, and lowest in the β/B2 phase, and that the mean Young’s modulus has the same trend. In general, phases with lower hardness and Young’s modulus present a higher capability of plastic deformation (Cai et al., 2016). The typical P-h curves for the α₂, O, and β/B2 phases are presented in Figure 5C and show elastic–plastic material responses. The differences in hardness of the materials are evident from the large differences in peak depth (Chen et al., 2009). As can be seen in Figure 5C, the α₂ phase recovers 60.12 nm of the 81.76 nm indentation depth, corresponding to an elastic recovery of 21.64 nm; the elastic recovery is 23.70 nm for the O phase and 19.67 nm for the β/B2 phase. The P-h curves were converted to indentation σ-ε curves, as shown in Figure 5D. The indentation stress is determined by the equation σ = P/A. The indentation strain is obtained by formulas established by Hochstetter et al. (2003):

$\epsilon =0.081\log \left(X\right)\frac{1.2h_r}{1.2\tan \theta \left(h_r+h_1\right)}+\frac{1.2h_r}{1.2X\tan \theta \left(h_r+h_1\right),}(4)$

$X={10}^{\frac{1.2h_r/h_1-0.51921}{0.32598}}(5)$

where h_r is the plastic depth, h₁ (= 5 nm) is the tip defect for a well-manufactured Berkovich diamond (Hochstetter et al., 1999), X is the plasticity index, h_t is the total depth, and θ (= 70.3°) is the half tip of a perfect cone.

Strain resulting from phase transition can be obtained from the corresponding stress resulting from phase transition by σ-ε curves in Figure 5D. During PWHT (at 800°C, 850°C, and 900°C) in the β/B2 + O two-phase region, the β/B2 phase with a body-centered cubic structure transformed to O phase with an orthorhombic structure, and the volume decreased because the density of the O phase is larger than that of the β/B2 phase (Table 2). This results in the O phase suffering tensile stress, while the β/B2 phase suffers compressive stress. Supposing that one-quarter of the β/B2 phase transforms to O phase, it will produce 7.9% phase transition strain, a corresponding compressive stress of 0.59 MPa for the β/B2 phase, and a corresponding tensile stress of 0.63 MPa for the O phase. Therefore, it can be concluded that the cracks result from phase transition stresses in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy during PWHT.

The PWHT conditions of the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy must be improved to avoid cracks resulting from phase transition stresses. The cleaned weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy after welding was heated to 980°C (5°C s^-1 heating rate) for 2 h in a tube furnace under argon atmosphere and then cooled to 850°C for 3 h, followed by cooling to room temperature by decreasing the furnace temperature. Tensile tests were performed for weld joints of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy subjected to improved PWHT. The ultimate strength of the weld joints of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy after improved PWHT can be up to 750 MPa, which is close to that of the weld joints of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy before PWHT and is 72.5% that of the base material (1,035 MPa). This improved PWHT procedure is simple, convenient, and highly efficient. It can effectively avoid reducing the ultimate strength of weld joints subjected to a traditional ordinary annealing process.

4 Conclusion

To explain why cracks occurred in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy during the PWHT process, the phase transition stresses of three different phases in Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy were analyzed with in situ nanoindentation technology and several formulas. The main conclusions that can be drawn are as follows.

(1) The densities of the three different phases in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy follow the order O phase > β/B2 phase > α₂ phase, while the volumes of the three different phases follow the opposite order.

(2) In the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy, the mean hardness is highest in the α₂ phase, second highest in the O phase, and lowest in the β/B2 phase, and the mean Young’s modulus has the same trend.

(3) The cracks resulted from phase transition stresses in the weld joint of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy during PWHT.

(4) The ultimate strength of the weld joints of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy after improved PWHT can be up to 750 MPa, which is close to that of the weld joints of Ti-22Al-25Nb alloy before PWHT and is 72.5% that of the base material (1,035 MPa).

Data availability statement

The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/supplementary material; further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding authors.

Author contributions

LS analyzed the experimental data and wrote the manuscript. LZ and SW provided the idea of the manuscript and gave the main suggestions. Other people helped with the experiments.

Funding

The authors would like to acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52201187), the General Scientific Research Project of Zhejiang Provincial Education Department (No. Y202249336), the Zhejiang Public Welfare Technology Application Research Project (No. LGC20E010003), and the Science and Technology Plan Project of Taizhou (Nos. 22gya18, 21gya23, 2002gy06).

Conflict of interest

Authors LS, LZ, WL, NX, ZT, JZ, and SD are employed by Taizhou Clean Carbon Technology Company Limited.

The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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