V. N. Chuvil’deev, V. I. Kopylov, A. V. Nokhrin, A. M. Bakhmet'ev, N. G. Sandler, P. V. Tryaev, N. A. Kozlova, N. Yu. Tabachkova, A. S. Mikhailov, M. K. Chegurov, E. S. Smirnova, “The effect of the local chemical composition of grain boundaries on the corrosion resistance of a titanium alloy”, Pisma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Volume 42, Issue 24,Pages <nobr>24

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The effect of the local chemical composition of grain boundaries on the corrosion resistance of a titanium alloy

V. N. Chuvil’deev^a, V. I. Kopylov^ab, A. V. Nokhrin^a, A. M. Bakhmet'ev^c, N. G. Sandler^c, P. V. Tryaev^c, N. A. Kozlova^a, N. Yu. Tabachkova^d, A. S. Mikhailov^c, M. K. Chegurov^a, E. S. Smirnova^a

^a National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
^b Physical-Technical Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
^c I. I. Afrikantov Experimental Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
^d National University of Science and Technology «MISIS», Moscow

Abstract: The influence of the structural-phase state of grain boundaries in a Ti–4Al–2V (commercial PT3V grade) pseudo-$\alpha$-titanium alloy on its susceptibility to hot-salt intergranular corrosion (IGC) has been studied. It is established that IGC-tested alloy samples exhibit corrosion-induced defects of two types. More extended defects of the first type occur at the V-rich boundaries of coarse grains, while short defects of the second type reside at the grain boundaries with composition close to that of the grain body. The existence of the two types of IGC defects is explained by the classical theory of galvanic microcouples (microcells), according to which the IGC intensity is proportional to the difference of corrosion-active impurity concentrations between the grain boundary and body.

Received: 12.05.2016