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Monte Carlo Simulation of Ti-6Al-4V Grain Growth during Fast Heat Treatment

by Amir Reza Ansari Dezfoli¹, Weng-Sing Hwang¹

1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan
2 Corresponding author. E-mail: wshwang@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Computers, Materials & Continua 2015, 49-50(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3970/cmc.2015.049.001

Abstract

Investigations of the microstructural evolution of Titanium (Ti) alloys during high temperature processes and heat treatment are attracting more attention due to wide variety of applications for such alloys. In most of these processes the Titanium alloys are subjected to fast heating or cooling rates. In this paper, Monte Carlo simulation is used to simulate the grain growth kinetics of Ti-6Al-4V alloy during fast heat treatment. Here, Monte Carlo simulation of grain growth is based on the Q-state Potts model. Our model is calibrated using the parabolic grain growth law, dⁿ-d₀ⁿ = kt, where the empirical constants are taken from the literature. The simulation results are compared with the experimental data, and this comparison shows good agreement between the two.

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