Methods of refining the grain size of a titanium alloy workpiece include beta annealing the workpiece, cooling the beta annealed workpiece to a temperature below the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy, and high strain rate multi-axis forging the workpiece. High strain rate multi-axis for
Methods of refining the grain size of a titanium alloy workpiece include beta annealing the workpiece, cooling the beta annealed workpiece to a temperature below the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy, and high strain rate multi-axis forging the workpiece. High strain rate multi-axis forging is employed until a total strain of at least 1 is achieved in the titanium alloy workpiece, or until a total strain of at least 1 and up to 3.5 is achieved in the titanium alloy workpiece. The titanium alloy of the workpiece may comprise at least one of grain pinning alloying additions and beta stabilizing content effective to decrease alpha phase precipitation and growth kinetics.
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1. A method of refining a grain size of a workpiece comprising a titanium alloy, the method comprising: beta annealing the workpiece;cooling the beta annealed workpiece to a temperature below a beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy; andmulti-axis forging the workpiece, wherein the multi-axi
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A method of refining a grain size of a workpiece comprising a titanium alloy, the method comprising: beta annealing the workpiece;cooling the beta annealed workpiece to a temperature below a beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy; andmulti-axis forging the workpiece, wherein the multi-axis forging comprises press forging the workpiece at a workpiece forging temperature in a workpiece forging temperature range in the direction of a first orthogonal axis of the workpiece with a strain rate sufficient to adiabatically heat an internal region of the workpiece,press forging the workpiece at a workpiece forging temperature in the workpiece forging temperature range in the direction of a second orthogonal axis of the workpiece with a strain rate that is sufficient to adiabatically heat the internal region of the workpiece,press forging the workpiece at a workpiece forging temperature in the workpiece forging temperature range in the direction of a third orthogonal axis of the workpiece with a strain rate that is sufficient to adiabatically heat the internal region of the workpiece, andrepeating at least one of the press forgings until a total true strain of at least 1.0 is achieved in the workpiece. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the press forgings is repeated until a total true strain in the range of at least 1.0 up to less than 3.5 is achieved in the workpiece. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein a strain rate used during press forging is in the range of 0.2 s−1 to 0.8 s−1. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the workpiece comprises one of an alpha+beta titanium alloy and a metastable beta titanium alloy. 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the workpiece comprises an alpha+beta titanium alloy. 6. The method of claim 4 or 5, wherein the titanium alloy comprises at least one of grain pinning alloying additions and beta stabilizing content effective to decrease alpha phase precipitation and growth kinetics. 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the workpiece comprises a titanium alloy selected from Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-6Mo alloy (UNS R56260), Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo-0.08Si alloy (UNS R54620), Ti-4Al-2.5V alloy (UNS R54250), Ti-6Al-7Nb alloy (UNS R56700), and Ti-6Al-6V-2Sn alloy (UNS R56620). 8. The method of claim 1, wherein cooling the beta annealed workpiece comprises cooling the workpiece to ambient temperature. 9. The method of claim 1, wherein cooling the beta annealed workpiece comprises cooling the workpiece to a temperature at or near the workpiece forging temperature. 10. The method of claim 1, wherein beta annealing the workpiece comprises heating the workpiece at a beta annealing temperature in a range of the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy up to 300° F. (167° C.) above the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy. 11. The method of claim 1, wherein beta annealing the workpiece comprises heating the workpiece at a beta annealing temperature for a time within the range of 5 minutes to 24 hours. 12. The method of claim 1, further comprising plastically deforming the workpiece at a plastic deformation temperature in the beta phase field of the titanium alloy prior to cooling the beta annealed workpiece. 13. The method of claim 12, wherein plastically deforming the workpiece at a plastic deformation temperature in the beta phase field of the titanium alloy comprises at least one of drawing, upset forging, and high strain rate multi-axis forging the workpiece. 14. The method of claim 12, wherein the plastic deformation temperature is in a range of the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy up to 300° F. (167° C.) above the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy. 15. The method of claim 12, wherein plastically deforming the workpiece comprises high strain rate multi-axis forging, and wherein cooling the workpiece comprises high strain rate multi-axis forging the workpiece as the workpiece cools to the workpiece forging temperature in the alpha+beta phase field of the titanium alloy. 16. The method of claim 12, wherein plastically deforming the workpiece comprises upset forging the workpiece to a beta-upset strain in the range of 0.1 to 0.5. 17. The method of claim 1, wherein the workpiece forging temperature is in a range of 100° F. (55.6° C.) below the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy to 700° F. (388.9° C.) below the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy. 18. The method of claim 1, further comprising, intermediate successive press forgings, allowing the adiabatically heated internal region of the workpiece to cool to a temperature at or near the workpiece forging temperature in the workpiece forging temperature range and heating the outer surface of the workpiece to a temperature at or near the workpiece forging temperature in the workpiece forging temperature range. 19. The method of claim 18, wherein the adiabatically heated internal region of the workpiece is allowed to cool for an internal region cooling time in the range of 5 seconds to 120 seconds. 20. The method of claim 18, wherein heating the outer surface of the workpiece comprises heating using one or more of flame heating, box furnace heating, induction heating, and radiant heating. 21. The method of claim 18, wherein dies of a forge used to press forge the workpiece are heated to a temperature in a range of the workpiece forging temperature to 100° F. (55.6° C.) below the workpiece forging temperature. 22. The method of claim 1, wherein after a total true strain of at least 1.0 is achieved, the workpiece comprises an average alpha particle grain size in the range of 4μm or less. 23. The method of claim 1, wherein repeating at least one of the press forgings until a total true strain of at least 1.0 is achieved in the workpiece comprises press forging the workpiece at a second workpiece forging temperature, wherein the second workpiece forging temperature is within the alpha+beta phase field of the titanium alloy of the workpiece, and wherein the second workpiece forging temperature is lower than the workpiece forging temperature. 24. A method of refining a grain size of a workpiece comprising a titanium alloy, the method comprising: beta annealing the workpiece;cooling the beta annealed workpiece to a temperature below a beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy; andmulti-axis forging the workpiece, wherein the multi-axis forging comprises press forging the workpiece at a workpiece forging temperature in a workpiece forging temperature range in the direction of a first orthogonal A-axis of the workpiece to a major reduction spacer height with a strain rate sufficient to adiabatically heat an internal region of the workpiece,press forging the workpiece at the workpiece forging temperature in the direction of a second orthogonal B-axis of the workpiece to a first blocking reduction spacer height,press forging the workpiece at the workpiece forging temperature in the direction of a third orthogonal C-axis of the workpiece to a second blocking reduction spacer height,press forging the workpiece at the workpiece forging temperature in the direction of the second orthogonal B-axis of the workpiece to the major reduction spacer height with a strain rate sufficient to adiabatically heat an internal region of the workpiece,press forging the workpiece at the workpiece forging temperature in the direction of the third orthogonal C-axis of the workpiece to the first blocking reduction spacer height,press forging the workpiece at the workpiece forging temperature in the direction of the first orthogonal A-axis of the workpiece to the second blocking reduction spacer height,press forging the workpiece at the workpiece forging temperature in the direction of the third orthogonal C-axis of the workpiece to the major reduction spacer height with a strain rate sufficient to adiabatically heat an internal region of the workpiece,press forging the workpiece at the workpiece forging temperature in the direction of the first orthogonal A-axis of the workpiece to the first blocking reduction spacer height,press forging the workpiece at the workpiece forging temperature in the direction of the second orthogonal B-axis of the workpiece to the second blocking reduction spacer height, andrepeating at least one of the preceding press forgings until a total true strain of at least 1.0 is achieved in the workpiece. 25. The method of claim 24, wherein at least one of the press forgings is repeated until a total true strain of at least 1.0 up to less than 3.5 is achieved in the workpiece. 26. The method of claim 24, wherein a strain rate used during press forging is in the range of 0.2 s−1 to 0.8 s−1. 27. The method of claim 24, wherein the workpiece comprises one of an alpha+beta titanium alloy and a metastable beta titanium alloy. 28. The method of claim 24, wherein the workpiece comprises an alpha+beta titanium alloy. 29. The method of claim 27 or 28, wherein the titanium alloy comprises at least one of grain pinning alloying additions and beta stabilizing content to decrease alpha phase precipitation and alpha phase growth kinetics. 30. The method of claim 24, wherein the workpiece comprises a titanium alloy selected from Ti-6A1-2Sn-4Zr-6Mo alloy (UNS R56260), Ti-6A1-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo-0.08Si alloy (UNS R54620), Ti-4Al-2.5V alloy (UNS R54250), Ti-6Al-7Nb alloy (UNS R56700), and Ti-6Al-6V-2Sn alloy (UNS R56620). 31. The method of claim 24, wherein cooling the beta annealed workpiece comprises cooling the workpiece to ambient temperature. 32. The method of claim 24, wherein cooling the beta annealed workpiece comprises cooling the workpiece to the workpiece forging temperature. 33. The method of claim 24, wherein beta annealing the workpiece comprises heating the workpiece at a beta annealing temperature in a range of the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy up to 300° F. (167° C.) above the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy. 34. The method of claim 24, wherein beta annealing the workpiece comprises heating the workpiece at a beta annealing temperature for a time in the range of 5 minutes to 24 hours. 35. The method of claim 24, further comprising plastically deforming the workpiece at a plastic deformation temperature in a beta phase field of the titanium alloy prior to cooling the beta annealed workpiece to a temperature below the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy. 36. The method of claim 35, wherein plastically deforming the workpiece at a plastic deformation temperature in the beta phase field of the titanium alloy comprises at least one of drawing, upset forging, and high strain rate multi-axis forging the workpiece. 37. The method of claim 35, wherein the plastic deformation temperature is in a range of the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy of the workpiece up to 300° F. (167° C.) above the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy of the workpiece. 38. The method of claim 35, wherein plastically deforming the workpiece comprises high strain rate multi-axis forging, and wherein cooling the beta annealed workpiece comprises high strain rate multi-axis forging the workpiece as the workpiece cools to the workpiece forging temperature. 39. The method of claim 35, wherein plastically deforming the workpiece comprises upset forging the workpiece to a beta-upset strain in the range of 0.1 to 0.5. 40. The method of claim 24, wherein the workpiece forging temperature is in a range of 100° F. (55.6° C.) below the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy to 700° F. (388° C.) below the beta transus temperature of the titanium alloy. 41. The method of claim 24, wherein intermediate successive press forgings, the adiabatically heated internal region of the workpiece is allowed to cool to a temperature at or near the workpiece forging temperature in the workpiece forging temperature range and an outer surface region of the workpiece is heated to a temperature at or near the workpiece forging temperature in the workpiece forging temperature range. 42. The method of claim 41, wherein the adiabatically heated internal region of the workpiece is allowed to cool for a time in the range of 5 seconds to 120seconds. 43. The method of claim 41, wherein heating the outer surface of the workpiece comprises heating using one or more of flame heating, box furnace heating, induction heating, and radiant heating. 44. The method of claim 41, wherein dies of a forge used to press forge the workpiece are heated to a temperature in a range of the workpiece forging temperature to 100° F. (55.6° C.) below the workpiece forging temperature. 45. The method of claim 24, wherein after a total true strain of at least 1.0 is achieved, the workpiece comprises an average alpha particle grain size of 4μm or less. 46. The method of claim 24, wherein repeating at least one of the press forgings until a total true strain of at least 1.0 is achieved in the workpiece comprises press forging the workpiece at a second workpiece forging temperature, wherein the second workpiece forging temperature is within an alpha+beta phase field of the titanium alloy workpiece, and wherein the second workpiece forging temperature is lower than the workpiece forging temperature.
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