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Titanium Alloys: Heat Treatments and Mechanical Properties

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This lecture covers the heat treatments of metastable beta titanium alloys, discussing the processing steps, critical parameters, and resulting microstructures. It also explores the mechanical properties of Ti-6246 alloy, showing the influence of microstructure on yield stress, tensile strength, and fracture toughness.

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Chemical engineering

Materials science: Deformation of materials

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Ultimate tensile strength (also called UTS, tensile strength, TS, ultimate strength or in notation) is the maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched or pulled before breaking. In brittle materials the ultimate tensile strength is close to the yield point, whereas in ductile materials the ultimate tensile strength can be higher. The ultimate tensile strength is usually found by performing a tensile test and recording the engineering stress versus strain.

Yield (engineering)

In materials science and engineering, the yield point is the point on a stress-strain curve that indicates the limit of elastic behavior and the beginning of plastic behavior. Below the yield point, a material will deform elastically and will return to its original shape when the applied stress is removed. Once the yield point is passed, some fraction of the deformation will be permanent and non-reversible and is known as plastic deformation.

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Shear strength

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