Mengucci Paolo, Santecchia Eleonora, Gatto Andrea, Bassoli Elena, Sola Antonella, Sciancalepore Corrado, Rutkowski Bogdan, Barucca Gianni
Dipartimento di Scienze e Ingegneria Della Materia, Dell'Ambiente de Urbanistica, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.
INSTM-Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali, 50121 Firenze, Italy.
Materials (Basel). 2019 Sep 6;12(18):2876. doi: 10.3390/ma12182876.
Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) technology was used to produce samples based on the Ti-6Al-4V alloy for biomedical applications. Solid-state phase transformations induced by thermal treatments were studied by neutron diffraction (ND), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). Although, ND analysis is rather uncommon in such studies, this technique allowed evidencing the presence of retained β in α' martensite of the as-produced (#AP) sample. The retained β was not detectable by XRD analysis, nor by STEM observations. Martensite contains a high number of defects, mainly dislocations, that anneal during the thermal treatment. Element diffusion and partitioning are the main mechanisms in the α ↔ β transformation that causes lattice expansion during heating and determines the final shape and size of phases. The retained β phase plays a key role in the α' → β transformation kinetics.
采用激光粉末床熔融(LPBF)技术制备了基于Ti-6Al-4V合金的生物医学应用样品。通过中子衍射(ND)、X射线衍射(XRD)、扫描透射电子显微镜(STEM)和能谱分析(EDS)研究了热处理引起的固态相变。虽然,ND分析在这类研究中相当少见,但该技术能够证明在制备态(#AP)样品的α'马氏体中存在残留β相。XRD分析和STEM观察均未检测到残留β相。马氏体含有大量缺陷,主要是位错,这些缺陷在热处理过程中会发生退火。元素扩散和分配是α ↔ β转变中的主要机制,该转变在加热过程中会导致晶格膨胀,并决定相的最终形状和尺寸。残留β相在α' → β转变动力学中起关键作用。