Deformation behavior of a Co-Cr-Fe-Ni-Mo medium-entropy alloy at extremely low temperatures

Moon, Jongun; Tabachnikova, Elena; Shumilin, Sergii; Hryhorova, Tetiana; Estrin, Yuri; Brechtl, Jamieson; Liaw, Peter K.; Wang, Wenqing; Dahmen, Karin A.; Zargaran, Alireza; Bae, Jae Wung; Do, Hyeon-Seok; Lee, Byeong-Joo; Kim, Hyoung Seop

doi:10.1016/j.mattod.2021.08.001

Deformation behavior of a Co-Cr-Fe-Ni-Mo medium-entropy alloy at extremely low temperatures

Journal Article · Mon Sep 13 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Materials Today

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2021.08.001· OSTI ID:1843667

Moon, Jongun ^[1]; Tabachnikova, Elena ^[2]; Shumilin, Sergii ^[2]; Hryhorova, Tetiana ^[2]; Estrin, Yuri ^[3]; Brechtl, Jamieson ^[4]; Liaw, Peter K. ^[4]; Wang, Wenqing ^[5]; Dahmen, Karin A. ^[5]; Zargaran, Alireza ^[1]; Bae, Jae Wung ^[6]; Do, Hyeon-Seok ^[1]; Lee, Byeong-Joo ^[1]; Kim, Hyoung Seop ^[1]

Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (POSTECH) (Korea, Republic of)
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Kharkov (Ukraine)
Monash Univ., Melbourne, VIC (Australia); Univ. of Western Australia, Perth, WA (Australia)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Max Planck Inst. for Iron Research, Düsseldorf (Germany)

In this work, we report the mechanical and microstructural characteristics of a medium-entropy alloy, Co_17.5Cr_12.5Fe₅₅Ni₁₀Mo₅ (atomic percent, at%) at cryogenic temperatures, down to a record low temperature of 0.5 K. The alloy exhibits excellent strength and ductility combined with a high strain-hardening rate in the entire temperature range investigated. Its property profile, including the yield strength, ultimate tensile strength, strain hardening capability, and absorbed mechanical energy, is better than those of most alloys and HEAs used in cryogenics. Within the interval of extremely low temperatures considered (0.5–4.2 K), the alloy exhibits several unusual features, including anomalies of the temperature dependence of the yield strength and tensile ductility, discontinuous plastic deformation (DPF), and a change in the propensity for the deformation-induced martensitic transformation. While the occurrence of these effects in the same temperature interval may be fortuitous, we hypothesize that they are interrelated and provide a tentative explanation of the observed phenomena on this basis.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Army Research Office (ARO); USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1843667

Journal Information:: Materials Today, Journal Name: Materials Today Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 50; ISSN 1369-7021

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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