Author : Samatham Madhukar, Paaka Vidyanand Sai, Sumith Kumar and Dasari Jagath Prakash

Titanium Alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) is the most widely used titanium alloy. It features good machinability and excellent mechanical properties when compared to the Pure Titanium. These alloys are widely used in the engineering field, namely in the aerospace, automotive and biomedical parts, because of their high specific strength and exceptional corrosion resistance. However, the machinability of titanium alloys is difficult due to their low thermal conductivity and elastic modulus, high hardness at elevated temperature, and high chemical reactivity. In this article to overcome this disadvantage of machinability the material is heat treated which increases the machinability but this article however reviews the effect of heat treatment on the mechanical properties of the titanium alloy by comparing the results obtained in the Universal Testing Machine (UTM) , Hardness Testing , Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) for the both the Non Heat Treated Specimen and Heat Treated Specimen .

Keywords: Titanium Alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) , Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) , heat treatment

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.1 (Feb-2017)