The role of crystallographic and geometrical relationships between α and β phases in an α/β titanium alloy

The present study has examined for α/β-Ti alloys the relationship between the morphology and crystallography of Widmanstätten plates of α-Ti in colonies within a prior grain of β-Ti. Thus, optical metallography, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy have been used to characterize the morphological features of the microstructure, whereas orientation-imaging microscopy (OM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM)...