Hot deformation behavior and microstructure evolution of the Cu-1.5Ti-(0.5Fe) alloys

Compression tests of the Cu-1.5Ti and Cu-1.5Ti-0.5Fe alloys were carried out using the Gleeble-1500D hot deformation simulator. The deformation temperature was 750-900 °C and the strain rate was 0.1-0.003 s-1. The Cu-1.5Ti-0.5Fe alloy clearly shows higher rheological stress and displays dynamic recovery and dynamic recrystallization characteristics under the same deformation conditions. The constitutive equations of the alloys were established. The activation energy of the Cu-1.5Ti alloy was 341.76 kJ/mol, which increased to 378.03 kJ/mol with the addition of 0.5 wt.% Fe. After 750 °C and 0.003 s-1 deformation the Cu4Ti phase precipitated in Cu-1.5Ti alloy. Adding 0.5 wt.% Fe caused dynamic recrystallization during hot deformation. The hot-deformed Cu-1.5Ti-0.5Fe alloy had more dislocations and finer grains with Cu4Ti and Fe2Ti precipitated phases.