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Efficacity of SMAT and laser shock-peening process for enhancement of titanium alloys high temperature oxidation resistance

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The aim of this thesis is to determine the influence of two mechanical surface treatments, the shot- peening performed with several type of balls (WC, alumina and glass) and the laser shock peening, on the high temperature oxidation resistance of two titanium alloys : alpha alloy with commercially purity (Grade 1) and aeronautical beta metastable alloy (TIMETAL-21S).After different treatments, the pieces are oxidized with different conditions: of time (between 5 hours to study the firsts times of oxidation and 3000 hours to compare with a classical aeronautical test), of temperature (600°C to 700°C) and atmosphere (dry air or oxygen).The pieces are analyzed before and after oxidation exposure with several mechanical (micro-hardness, strain measurements), chemicals (XRD, nuclear microprobe) and structural (EBSD, texture) techniques. The results show a large surface perturbation before the high temperature exposure in term of morphological, mechanical, structural and chemical point of view.This mechanical treatments lead up to an oxidation rate reduction for all the different titanium alloys. This treatments modified the diffusion rate of several elements (nitrogen, oxygen, molybdenum or aluminum) but also the microstructure (recrystallization, grain morphology or texturing) during high temperature exposure. Nitrogen element plays an important role in the observed phenomena.However, the determination of consequences after mechanical treatment on the titanium oxidation resistance is again difficult with the observations noted in this work. Actually, there is a simultaneous contributions of several factors: chemical, mechanical and structural.