Dynamic failure of titanium: Temperature rise and adiabatic shear band formation

•The adiabatic shear failure process of solids was investigated for the first time by dynamic tests synchronically combined with high-speed photography and infrared temperature measurement.•The key characteristics of ASB, such as temperature, critical strain, propagation speed and cooling rate were systematically studied.•The experimental results shows that the apparent temperature rise might have occurred after ASB initiation, indicating it might not be the causation but the consequences of ASB.•The discovery might help to clarify the causality of ASB and serve as the starting point for further physical, mechanistic and mathematic studies of ASB.