Low cycle dwell time fatigue in Ti-6242

Ambient temperature low cycle dwell time and conventional low cycle fatigue tests were performed on Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo (Ti-6242). Specimens were solution annealed at various temperatures below the beta transus to control the volume fraction of primary alpha. The influence of the changes in primary alpha phase on low cycle dwell time fatigue life (DLCF) were determined and compared to the conventional low cycle fatigue (LCF) properties of the alloy. A dwell significantly decreased the number of cycles to failure. Increasing primary alpha associated with lower solution temperatures significantly increased susceptibility to low cycle dwell time fatigue although this effect, and DLCF in general diminished with decreasing stress. It is believed that the susceptibility to dwell fatigue may be associated with ambient temperature, time-dependent, cyclic (creep) plasticity.