Microstructure control techniques in primary hot working of titanium alloy bars:A review

How to control the microstructure of titanium alloy bars is important to fabricating high-performance aerial forgings. This paper gives a thorough survey of the manufacturing meth-ods and microstructure control techniques for titanium alloy bars. It summarizes the effects of pro-cessing parameters on the mechanisms and laws of microstructure evolution during b working and (a+b) working, including the kinetics and grains size of dynamic recrystallization (DRX) during b deformation and the kinetics and grains size of spheroidization during (a+b) deformation. The trends in microstructure control techniques are presented for fabricating titanium alloy bars with high efficiency, low cost, and high quality by means of b/(a+b) working, and the puzzles and chal-lenges in the future are also pointed out.