Journal
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS
Volume 152, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104389
Keywords
Fracture; Bcc; High entropy alloys; Intrinsic ductility
Funding
- Swiss National Science Foundation [200021_18198/1]
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The current goal of alloy development is to identify alloy compositions for high temperature applications with sufficient ductility at ambient temperatures. High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) have emerged as a new class of metal alloys, with some compositions showing excellent strength retention at high temperatures but low ductility at room temperature. The study investigates the macroscopic ductility in bcc elements and alloys, and proposes a ductility criterion based on stress intensities for critical crack orientations, which is then applied to HEAs to identify new compositions with potential for room temperature ductility.
A current goal driving alloy development is the identification of alloy compositions for high temperature applications but with the additional requirement of sufficient ductility at ambient temperatures. Multicomponent, single-phase, polycrystalline High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) have recently emerged as a new class of metal alloys, and some refractory bcc HEAs composed mainly of Nb, V, Ta, Cr, Mo, and/or W show excellent strength retention up to very high temperatures but low ductility at room temperature (RT). Here, it is postulated that the macroscopic ductility in bcc elements and alloys is determined by the intrinsic competition between brittle cleavage and ductile dislocation emission mechanisms at an atomistically sharp crack. The stress intensities K-Ic for cleavage and K-Ie for emission are evaluated within Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics and validated by atomistic simulations on model alloys. A RT ductility criterion based on K-Ie/K-Ic for critical crack orientations is proposed based on the elemental metals and is then applied to HEAs. Agreement with experimental trends in ductility vs. composition across a range of existing HEAs is demonstrated. The analysis is then extended across large composition spaces of the Mo-Nb-Ta-V-W and Mo-Nb-Ti alloy families, identifying new compositions with the potential for RT ductility.
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