Determination of polycrystal diffraction elastic constants of Ti–2.5Cu by using in situ tensile loading and synchrotron radiation

Residual stress determination in engineering components from diffraction strain measurements needs reliable diffraction elastic constants (DECs). From this sense, in situ uniaxial tensile loading experiment was performed on alpha titanium alloy Ti–2.5Cu at the HEMS beamline at DESY by means of a monochromatic synchrotron X-ray diffraction. A comparison between measured (polycrystal) and calculated (single crystal) DECs using for example the Kröner model was presented and discussed. The results revealed that the measured DECs slightly differ from the calculated ones. Furthermore, changes in the lattice parameters a and c as well as c/a ratio during tensile loading were also investigated.