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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 812, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2021.141124
Keywords
High entropy alloys; Mechanical behavior; Atomistic simulation
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- National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research [1507846]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [1507846] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Atomistic simulation studies on deformation behavior in a model quinary high entropy FCC alloy show that local composition fluctuations in random alloys make dislocation glide more difficult, resulting in higher strength and less plastic deformation compared to average atom materials.
This paper reports atomistic simulation studies of deformation behavior in a model quinary high entropy FCC alloy. The simulations are based on empirical interatomic potentials and use massively parallel molecular dynamics techniques at the atomistic level to study the deformation mechanisms. The studies consider columnar polycrystalline samples containing pure tilt grain boundaries with random misorientations around the [110] crystallographic axis. Virtual tensile tests were performed and the material response analyzed using various techniques, focusing on the role that the local composition in the random alloy plays in the deformation mechanisms. Overall plastic response correlates well with the values of unstable stacking faults given by the potential, and it is therefore not meaningful to compare deformation response with that of any of the single components. The more meaningful comparison is with a corresponding ?average atom? material that has the same average properties but no local randomness. The main effect of the random composition fluctuations is to make dislocation glide more difficult. These fluctuations also result in lower twin to stacking fault ratios in the deformed samples. The complex high entropy alloy presents a higher strength, and overall less plastic deformation for the same levels of stress. This is mostly driven by the fact that the dislocations emitted from the grain boundaries do not glide as easily in the random alloy as they do in the average atom material.
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