Computational mesomechanics of titanium surface-hardened by ultrasonic treatment

This paper studies plastic strain localization and stress-strain evolution in commercial titanium specimens with an ultrasonically treated surface. A dynamic plane strain boundary-value problem is numerically solved by the finite difference method. The microstructure and mechanical properties of the composition are specified in the calculations based on microhardness measurements, mechanical tensile tests, and metallographic studies. The dependences of the plastic flow localization characteristics on the geometry and mechanical properties of ultrasonically treated surface layers have been established. Plastic strain localization is found to depend on the geometry and mechanical properties of ultrasonically treated surface layers.