(1) Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, 500058, India;(2) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (R & D), Hyderabad, 500093, India;(3) Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, 603102, India
Abstract:
Acoustic Emission (AE) studies have been performed on smooth and notched specimens of a near alpha titanium alloy under monotonic
loading condition to study the effect of stress triaxiality on damage micromechanisms. The damage in the notched specimen
was found to be of cleavage type as against the ductile type of damage in smooth specimen. This difference was distinguished
in the AE energy evolution with notched specimen producing higher energy rate with lower total energy than that of smooth
specimen.