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Evaluation of the Transient Liquid Phase (TLP) Bonding Process for Ti3Al-Based Honeycomb Core Sandwich StructureThe suitability of using transient liquid phase (TLP) bonding to fabricate honeycomb core sandwich panels with Ti-14Al-21Nb (wt%) titanium aluminide (T3Al) face sheets for high-temperature hypersonic vehicle applications was evaluated. Three titanium alloy honeycomb cores and one Ti3Al alloy honeycomb core were investigated. Edgewise compression (EWC) and flatwise tension (FWT) tests on honeycomb core sandwich specimens and tensile tests of the face sheet material were conducted at temperatures ranging from room temperature to 1500 F. EWC tests indicated that the honeycomb cores and diffusion bonded joints were able to stabilize the face sheets up to and beyond the face sheet compressive yield strength for all temperatures investigated. The specimens with the T3Al honeycomb core produced the highest FWT strengths at temperatures above 1000 F. Tensile tests indicated that TLP processing conditions resulted in decreases in ductility of the Ti-14Al-21Nb face sheets. Microstructural examination showed that the side of the face sheets to which the filler metals had been applied was transformed from equiaxed alpha2 grains to coarse plates of alpha2 with intergranular Beta. Fractographic examination of the tensile specimens showed that this transformed region was dominated by brittle fracture.
Document ID
19980201176
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Technical Publication (TP)
Authors
Bird, R. Keith (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Hoffman, Eric K. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
June 1, 1998
Subject Category
Metallic Materials
Report/Patent Number
NASA/TP-1998-208421
NAS 1.60:208421
L-17717
Funding Number(s)
PROJECT: RTOP 522-12-11-01
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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