By thermally cycling through their transformation temperature range, coarse-grained polymorphic materials can be deformed
superplastically, owing to the emergence of transformation mismatch plasticity (or transformation superplasticity) as a deformation
mechanism. This mechanism is presently investigated under biaxial stress conditions during thermal cycling of unalloyed titanium,
Ti-6Al-4V, and their composites (Ti/10 vol. pct TiC
p
, Ti-6Al-4V/10 vol. pct TiC
p
, and Ti-6Al-4V/5 vol. pct TiB
w
). During gas-pressure dome bulging experiments, the dome height was measured as a function of forming time. Adapting existing
models of biaxial doming to the case of transformation superplasticity where the strain-rate sensitivity is unity, we verify
the operation of this deformation mechanism in all experimental materials and compare the biaxial results directly to new
uniaxial thermal cycling results on the same materials. Finally, existing thickness distribution models are compared with
experimentally measured profiles.