Experimental investigations of the laws of energy dissipation during dynamic deformation of nanocrystalline titanium

The mechanical and thermodynamic characteristics of nanocrystalline (NC) titanium have been experimentally studied under the conditions of dynamic compression at a strain rate of (2–5) × 10³ s⁻¹. The samples of NC titanium were cut from a rod processed by equal-channel angular pressing and had a characteristic grain size of 300 nm. It is established that a 25% increase in the dynamic limit of elasticity in the NC titanium (compared to an initial coarse-grained sample) is accompanied by qualitative changes in the process of energy absorption and dissipation in the material. The amount of dissipated energy remains approximately constant and independent of the rate and amplitude of loading in the entire range of strain rates studied.