Influence of Warm Rolling Path on Shear Strength of Explosively Welded Ti/Steel Clad Plate

Explosively welded Ti/steel clad plates were one-pass warm rolled by 60%, microstructures of the Ti layer and steel layer adjacent to interface were investigated, and shear strength of the one-pass warm rolled clad plates was tested. Results show that the one-pass warm rolling process can cause obvious shear deformation in both the Ti layer and steel layer adjacent to the interface. Because of the shear deformation, the RD-split basal texture forms in the Ti layer. In the steel layer, high fraction of the rotated cube texture and low fraction of the. fiber texture form. Compared with the common multi-pass rolling method, shear strength of the onepass warm rolled Ti/steel clad plate is improved because the shear deformation refines the interfacial compounds.