Chengqian Lu, Delun Gong, Yandi Jia, et al. Achieving Elinvar effect over a wide temperature range in an additively manufactured titanium alloy[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2024, 12(12): 877-885.
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Chengqian Lu, Delun Gong, Yandi Jia, et al. Achieving Elinvar effect over a wide temperature range in an additively manufactured titanium alloy[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2024, 12(12): 877-885.DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2024.2396030.
Achieving Elinvar effect over a wide temperature range in an additively manufactured titanium alloy
Temperature-insensitive elastic modulus known as Elinvar effect is typically achievable in metastable titanium alloys only through thermomechanical processing. Here reports that a directly additively manufactured TiNb-based alloy exhibits Elinvar effect over a wide temperature range of 273 K. This is attributed to its α″+β dual-phase microstructure wherein both the elastic modulus and transition strain of the α″ phase increase monotonically with increasing temperature. The α″ phase was obtained by setting a base-plate temperature of 723 K to act as in-situ aging. This provides a new way to optimize mechanical and functional properties simultaneously by utilizing thermal fields of additive manufacturing.