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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 376-392Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14686996.2022.2080512
Keywords
ab initio calculations; interstitials; medium entropy alloy; scanning transmission electron microscopy; stacking fault energy; strengthening
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- Czech Science Foundation [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_025/0007304]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51971248]
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This study investigates the effects of interstitial nitrogen and carbon on the stacking fault energy (SFE) of an equiatomic Cobalt-Chromium-Nickel (CoCrNi) medium entropy alloy. The results show that both nitrogen and carbon in solid solution increase the SFE of the alloy, with nitrogen having a more significant effect. Additionally, the SFE of CoCrNi increases after doping with 0.5 atomic percent of interstitial nitrogen.
We investigated the effects of interstitial N and C on the stacking fault energy (SFE) of an equiatomic CoCrNi medium entropy alloy. Results of computer modeling were compared to tensile deformation and electron microscopy data. Both N and C in solid solution increase the SFE of the face-centered cubic (FCC) alloy matrix at room temperature, with the former having a more significant effect by 240% for 0.5 at % N. Total energy calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) as well as thermodynamic modeling of the Gibbs free energy with the CALPHAD (CALculation of PHAse Diagrams) method reveal a stabilizing effect of N and C interstitials on the FCC lattice with respect to the hexagonal close-packed (HCP) CoCrNi-X (X: N, C) lattice. Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) measurements of the width of dissociated 1/2 dislocations suggest that the SFE of CoCrNi increases from 22 to 42-44 mJ center dot m(-2) after doping the alloy with 0.5 at. % interstitial N. The higher SFE reduces the nucleation rates of twins, leading to an increase in the critical stress required to trigger deformation twinning, an effect which can be used to design load-dependent strain hardening response.
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