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Cryogenic mechanical behavior of a TRIP-assisted dual-phase high-entropy alloy

Dongyue Li1, Zhiming Li2, Lu Xie1, Yong Zhang3( ), Wenrui Wang1( )
School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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The ultimate tensile strength and elongation as a function of temperature forrepresentative single-phase high-entropy alloys (HEAs) and dual-phase HEAs.

Abstract

The recently developed dual-phase (DP) non-equiatomic Fe50Mn30Co10Cr10 (at.%) high-entropy alloy (HEA) showed much higher strength and ductility compared to the single-phase equiatomic Fe20Mn20Ni20Co20Cr20 (at.%) HEA at room temperature. Herein we probe the cryogenic mechanical properties of the non-equiatomic DP-HEA with different grain sizes and compare with the equiatomic single-phase HEA. Our results show that the cryogenic ultimate tensile strengths of the coarse-grained (~ 200 μm) and fine-grained (~ 4 μm) DP-HEAs reach up to 1,133 and 1,342 MPa, respectively, which are significantly higher than that of the equiatomic single-phase HEAs with similar grain sizes. Furthermore, the fine-grained DP-HEA shows substantial improvement in both strength and ductility compared to the coarse-grained counterparts at cryogenic temperatures. Microstructural analysis reveals that the enhanced mechanical properties of the DP-HEA at cryogenic temperatures are attributed to a more extensive displacive transformation from the face-centered cubic (FCC) matrix into the hexagonal close-packed (HCP) phase compared to that at room temperature. Specifically, the HCP phase fraction in tensile tested fine-grained DP-HEAs increases from ~ 39% to ~ 79% with decreasing temperature from 298 to 77 K. The enhanced transformation behavior is enabled by the reduced stacking fault energy of the material with the decrease of deformation temperatures. The resulting outstanding combination of strength and ductility further suggests that the DP-HEAs are promising candidates as structural materials for cryogenic applications.

Keywords

high-entropy alloycryogenic mechanical behaviorgrain sizedual phasephase transformation

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Nano Research
Volume 15 Issue 6,
June 2022
Pages 4859-4866
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-021-3719-y
Cite this article:
Li D, Li Z, Xie L, et al. Cryogenic mechanical behavior of a TRIP-assisted dual-phase high-entropy alloy. Nano Research, 2022, 15(6): 4859-4866. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3719-y
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Received: 14 April 2021
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Published: 17 August 2021
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