Textures in Aluminum and Titanium: Their On-Line Evaluation and Quantitative Effects on Formability

Abstract

The main findings of this project were as follows: (1) For samples of an AA5xxx aluminum alloy sheet at temperatures up to 750 deg F, the degree of recrystallization could be monitored by using either resonance-EMAT spectroscopy or laser-ultrasound resonance spectroscopy. (2) Formulae showing explicitly the effects of crystallographic texture on the planar plastic anisotropy of sheets of cubic (e.g., aluminum) and of hexagonal (e.g., titanium) metals in uniaxial tension tests were derived. (3) A constitutive relation pertaining to acousto-elasticity was formulated for prestressed, orthorhombic aggregates of cubic crystallites. (4) For vertically-heterogeneous, prestressed orthorhombic media where the principal stress directions agree with the axes of orthorhombic material symmetry, a high-frequency asymptotic formula was derived which relate the depth variations of stress and texture to the dispersion of surface acoustic waves propagating in a symmetry direction.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 10, 2002
Accession Number
ADA406326

Entities

People

  • Chi-sing Man

Organizations

  • University of Kentucky

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Waves
  • Aluminum
  • Aluminum Alloys
  • Crystallites
  • Crystals
  • Frequency
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Mechanics
  • Metals
  • Sheet Metal
  • Surface Acoustic Waves
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Titanium
  • Transducers
  • Ultrasounds
  • Waves

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Pulsed-Laser Deposition