Nano-twin Mediated Plasticity in Carbon-containing FeNiCoCrMn High Entropy Alloys

Wu, Zhenggang; Bei, Hongbin; Parish, Chad M

doi:10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.05.224

Nano-twin Mediated Plasticity in Carbon-containing FeNiCoCrMn High Entropy Alloys

Journal Article · Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Journal of Alloys and Compounds

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.05.224· OSTI ID:1201287

Wu, Zhenggang ^[1]; Bei, Hongbin ^[2]; Parish, Chad M ^[2]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Equiatomic FeNiCoCrMn alloy has been reported to exhibit promising strength and ductility at cryogenic temperature and deformation mediated by nano-twining appeared to be one of the main reasons. We use the FeNiCoCrMn alloy as a base alloy to seek further improvement of its mechanical properties by alloying additional elements, i.e., interstitial carbon. Moreover, the effects of carbon on microstructures, mechanical properties and twinning activities were investigated in two different temperatures (77 and 293 K). With addition of 0.5 at% C, the high entropy alloy still remains entirely single phase face-centered cubic (FCC) crystal structure. We found that these materials can be cold rolled and recrystallized to produce a microstructure with equiaxed grains. Both strain hardening rate and strength are enhanced while high uniform elongations to fracture (~70% at 77 K and ~40% at 293 K) are still maintained. The increased strain hardening and strength could be caused by the promptness of deformation twinning in C-containing high entropy alloys.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1201287

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 22454107
OSTI ID: 1252086

Journal Information:: Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Journal Name: Journal of Alloys and Compounds Vol. 647; ISSN 0925-8388

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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