High Density of Strong yet Deformable Intermetallic Nanorods Leads to an Excellent Room Temperature Strength-Ductility Combination in a High Entropy Alloy

Gwalani, Bharat; Dasari, Sriswaroop; Sharma, Abhishek; Soni, Vishal; Shukla, Shivakant; Jagetia, Abhinav; Agrawal, Priyanka; Mishra, Rajiv S.; Banerjee, Rajarshi

doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117234

Title: High Density of Strong yet Deformable Intermetallic Nanorods Leads to an Excellent Room Temperature Strength-Ductility Combination in a High Entropy Alloy

Journal Article · Fri Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Acta Materialia

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117234· OSTI ID:1814706

^[1]; Dasari, Sriswaroop ^[2]; Sharma, Abhishek ^[2]; Soni, Vishal ^[2]; Shukla, Shivakant ^[3]; Jagetia, Abhinav ^[2]; Agrawal, Priyanka ^[2]; Mishra, Rajiv S. ^[2]; Banerjee, Rajarshi ^[2]

BATTELLE (PACIFIC NW LAB)
University of North Texas
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

This paper introduces a new microstructural template for high entropy alloys (HEAs), where the face centered cubic (FCC) complex concentrated solid solution is reinforced with a high density of strong, yet deformable, nanorods of an ordered multi-component intermetallic L12 compound. Thermodynamic modeling has been employed to design this HEA with a large L12 volume fraction. Thermo-mechanical processing by isothermal annealing of the conventionally processed bulk cold-rolled alloy directly at precipitation temperatures, has been applied to produce a high density of uniformly distributed L12 nanorods within refined FCC grains, resulting from concomitant recrystallization and discontinuous precipitation processes. The nanorod morphology of the discontinuous L12 product has been established from three-dimensional atom probe tomography. The refined grains result in a complete coverage of the microstructure with discontinuously precipitated intermetallic nanorods. This nanorod strengthened HEA exhibits an exceptionally high room temperature yield strength of ~1630 MPa, good tensile ductility of ~15%, and an ultimate tensile strength of ~1720 MPa. Furthermore, a single L12 phase alloy, melted based on the precipitate composition in the two-phase FCC + L12 HEA, exhibits very high compressive deformability and strain hardenability, unusual for ordered intermetallic compounds. These results open a new strategy for design of fine-grained microstructures strengthened via ordered intermetallic phases, exploiting the beneficial effects of discontinuous precipitation, for achieving very high room temperature tensile strengths while maintaining good ductility.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1814706

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-165683

Journal Information:: Acta Materialia, Vol. 219

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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