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ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS
Volume 243, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2021.107536
Keywords
High entropy alloys; Secondary dislocations; Dislocation density; Twinning
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This study investigates the crack tip behavior in multi-elemental alloys, finding that medium and high entropy alloys exhibit higher fracture resistance and plasticity, which could enhance their diverse structural applications.
The aim of the article is to study the crack tip behaviour in mutli-elemental alloys. Molecular dynamics based simulations were performed in conjunction with 2NN MEAM potential to study the fracture behaviour in ternary, quaternary, and quinary alloy configurations. Simulations were performed after aligning the crack plane with three different principle planes of FCC crystal. Deformation in each of the orientations was primarily governed by dislocations, twinning, and stacking faults emanating front the crack tips or from the surface of the crack plane. Medium and high entropy alloys have shown higher resistance to fracture, and were capable of retaining strength up to a larger extent as compared to low entropy alloy and pure Ni crystal. The higher dislocation density and uniform distribution of dislocation in medium and high entropy alloys leads to plasticity in the crystal after the onset of yielding. Blunting of the crack tip in medium and high entropy alloys was predicted in orientation 1 and 2, whereas crack propagates in orientation 3. This study will help in elucidating the capabilities of medium and high entropy alloys in resisting the opening mode of crack propagation, which can be further utilized to enhance the diversified structural applications of these emerging multi-elemental alloys.
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