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Titanium and titanium alloys which hold the advantages of high specific strength, favorable corrosion resistance and low-temperature performance, high thermal strength, etc., have become a kind of critical structural materials in aerospace industry, and moreover, have displayed considerable application potential for aeroengine heat-enduring parts owing to superior high-temperature performance compared with aluminum alloys and magnesium alloys. In 1954, the United States developed the first practical high-temperature titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V which possesses a long-term use temperature range of 300-350 and a pleasurable comprehensive performance, and acquired extensive and long-lasting application. With the continuous progress of the aerospace industry, especially the advent of aeroengines, other countries successively developed some higher-working-temperature titanium alloys, among which IMI834, as the world's first 600 high temperature titanium alloy, was created in 1984 by the United Kingdom. The typical feature of IMI834 is the addition of 0.06% C into the existing Ti-Al-Sn-Zr-Mo-Si titanium alloy system, expanding the processing window and optimizing the microstructure. After that, the United States obtained a high temperature titanium alloy Ti1100 in 1988, by adjusting the amount of some alloying elements in the original high-temperature titanium alloy Ti-6542S. In 1992, Russia also established its high temperature titanium alloy BT36 by substituting 5% W (a high-melting-point element) for 1% Nb within BT18Y. China's research of high-temperature titanium alloy started relatively late, initially imitated foreign alloys, and later specialized in utilizing rare earth elements to design high-temperature titanium alloys. The Ti60 and Ti600 alloys, developed by IMR (CAS)/BaoTi Group and NIN respectively, both have the working temperature of 600 and favorable comprehensive performance. In general, the upper temperature limit of high-temperature titanium is difficult to exceed 600 at present. Sufficient studies have proved that the nearly ineliminable mismatch between thermal strength and thermal stability and the steep-oxidation-resistance-decay-induced severe surface oxidation at above 600 will result in the deterioration of thermal stability and fatigue properties, and even, the risk of 'titanium fire' for those components serving in the high-pressure compressor section of an aeroengine. This review is concerned with the worldwide development status of 600 and above high-temperature titanium alloys. We give introductions for the 600 high-temperature titanium alloys including Ti1100 (US), IMI834 (UK), BT36 (Russia), and Ti60/TG6/Ti600 (China), as well as the 600-above ones including Ti65/Ti750 (China). The major nations' design schemes of high-temperature titanium alloys and the obstacles to raising the upper temperature limit are outlined, and some possible solutions are put forward. The paper ends with a prospective discussion over the future trends of high-temperature titanium alloys, from the perspectives of controlling the size, morphology and content of α2 phase and adjusting the hot working process. © 2018, Materials Review Magazine. All right reserved.
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