Microstructure and texture in cryomilled and spark plasma sintered Ti Grade 2

Abstract

Titanium (Grade 2) was processed by cryogenic milling and subsequently sintered by spark plasma sintering (SPS) method with the aim of creating and preserving the ultra-fine grained (UFG, < 1 μm) microstructure. Microstructural investigation was performed after both cryogenic milling and spark plasma sintering.

An advanced technique of transmission Kikuchi diffraction (TKD) was used to characterize the individual milled powder particles.

Keywords

• Microstructure
• texture
• cryomilled
• spark
• plasma
• sintered
• Grade