Abstract
In the present study, a new method to reduce deformation constraint in a grain of industrial polycrystalline pure titanium was introduced, by fabricating micro parallel grooves in the grain by means of a focused ion beam method. Uniaxial compression test was then performed in the direction parallel to the grooves, and the influence of reduced deformation constraint upon the characteristics of plastic deformation in the area between the grooves was investigated. The comparisons of the plastic deformation of the area with that without grooves revealed that the plastic deformation behavior as well as the deformed feature of the grain clearly changed by the presence and absence of the deformation constraint. The influence of deformation constraint upon the plastic deformation behavior of titanium grain was thus discussed with taking into consideration the crystallographic orientation.
