Constitutive modeling of high temperature flow behavior in a Ti-45Al-8Nb-2Cr-2Mn-0.2Y alloy

A constitutive equation based on the hyperbolic sinusoidal Arrhenius-type model has been developed to describe the hot deformation behavior of a β-γ Ti-Al alloy containing 8 at.% of Nb. Experimental true stress-true strain data were acquired from isothermal hot compression tests conducted across a wide range of temperatures (1273 K~1473 K) and strain rates (0.001 s^-1~1 s^-1), and the changes in the experimental conditions were reflected in the values of the Zener-Hollomon parameter. The impact of true strain was expressed through material constants (A, α, n and Q), and it was found that a 7th order polynomial is appropriate to express the relations between the true strain and these material constants. The average absolute relative error (AARE) and correlation coefficient (R) were used to evaluate the accuracy of the constitutive equation, and the values obtained were 6.009% and 0.9961, respectively. These results indicate that the type of constitutive equation developed here can predict the flow stress for this alloy with good accuracy over a wide range of experimental conditions. Thus, equations of this form could be applied more widely to analyses of hot deformation mechanism and microstructure evolution.