Enhancing fatigue life by ductile-transformable multicomponent B2 precipitates in a high-entropy alloy

R Feng, Y Rao, C Liu, X Xie, D Yu, Y Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Nature communications, 2021nature.com
Catastrophic accidents caused by fatigue failures often occur in engineering structures.
Thus, a fundamental understanding of cyclic-deformation and fatigue-failure mechanisms is
critical for the development of fatigue-resistant structural materials. Here we report a high-
entropy alloy with enhanced fatigue life by ductile-transformable multicomponent B2
precipitates. Its cyclic-deformation mechanisms are revealed by real-time in-situ neutron
diffraction, transmission-electron microscopy, crystal-plasticity modeling, and Monte-Carlo …
Abstract
Catastrophic accidents caused by fatigue failures often occur in engineering structures. Thus, a fundamental understanding of cyclic-deformation and fatigue-failure mechanisms is critical for the development of fatigue-resistant structural materials. Here we report a high-entropy alloy with enhanced fatigue life by ductile-transformable multicomponent B2 precipitates. Its cyclic-deformation mechanisms are revealed by real-time in-situ neutron diffraction, transmission-electron microscopy, crystal-plasticity modeling, and Monte-Carlo simulations. Multiple cyclic-deformation mechanisms, including dislocation slips, precipitation strengthening, deformation twinning, and reversible martensitic phase transformation, are observed in the studied high-entropy alloy. Its improved fatigue performance at low strain amplitudes, i.e., the high fatigue-crack-initiation resistance, is attributed to the high elasticity, plastic deformability, and martensitic transformation of the B2-strengthening phase. This study shows that fatigue-resistant alloys can be developed by incorporating strengthening ductile-transformable multicomponent intermetallic phases.
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