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Damage evolution mechanism of notch high-cycle fatigue in Ti-55531 alloy with multilevel lamellar microstructure

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  • a National & Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for High-performance Metal Structure Materials and Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China;

    b School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China;

    c School of Materials and Energy Engineering, Guizhou Institute of Technology, Guiyang 550003, China;

    d School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639789, Singapore

Online published: 2026-04-02

Abstract

The interrupted fatigue test method was utilized to investigate the damage evolution mechanism of the notch high-cycle fatigue (NHCF) in Ti-55531 alloy with a multilevel lamellar microstructure. The results reveal that significant microvoids and microcracks predominantly initiate at α/β interfaces under various notch root radii (R). Notably, even under larger R (0.75 mm), mutual interactions of stacking faults (SFs)−deformation twins, twins−twins, and SFs−SFs are observed. Furthermore, with decreasing R (0.34 and 0.14 mm), the volume fraction of SFs escalates significantly and twins are almost absent. Moreover, activated prismatic slip system decreases with a decrease in Schmidt factor and with the further decrease in R. Finally, strain localization near α/β interfaces contributes to the initiation of fatigue microcracks.

Cite this article

Zhong ZHANG, Chao-wen HUANG, Chang-sheng TAN, Jiang YANG, Ming-pan WAN, Fei LIU, Song XIANG . Damage evolution mechanism of notch high-cycle fatigue in Ti-55531 alloy with multilevel lamellar microstructure[J]. Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 2026 , 36(2) : 470 -487 . DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(25)66976-7

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