Micromechanical origin for the wide range of strength-ductility trade-off in metastable high entropy alloys

Z Lyu, Z Li, T Sasaki, Y Gao, K An, Y Chen, D Yu… - Scripta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Through different annealing temperatures and times, it is reported here that interstitial
metastable high entropy alloys (HEAs) can exhibit a wide range of strength-ductility trade …

Excellent strength-ductility synergy and corrosion resistance in a metastable high entropy alloy via heterogeneous structure design

K Lu, J Li, Y Wang, X Ma - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023 - Elsevier
For metastable high entropy alloys (HEAs), the balance between mechanical properties and
corrosion resistance is rarely achieved. Here, metastable HEAs with a heterogeneous …

Aged metastable high-entropy alloys with heterogeneous lamella structure for superior strength-ductility synergy

C Zhang, C Zhu, P Cao, X Wang, F Ye, K Kaufmann… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys containing multi-principal-element systems significantly expand the
potential alloy design space, and offer the possibility of overcoming the strength-ductility …

Simultaneously enhancing strength–ductility synergy in refractory high entropy alloys by a heterogeneous structure design

YJ Du, SM Xu, F Wang, JL Li, GD Wen, JT Xiong… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Improvement in the strength of metallic materials is often achieved at the expense of material
ductility; this long-standing conflict is referred to as the strength–ductility trade-off. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Strengthening of high-entropy alloys via modulation of cryo-pre-straining-induced defects

D Wei, W Gong, L Wang, B Tang, T Kawasaki… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Owing to their attractive structure and mechanical properties, high-entropy alloys (HEAs)
and medium-entropy alloys (MEAs) have attracted considerable research interest. The …

Achieving high strength and ductility in high-entropy alloys via spinodal decomposition-induced compositional heterogeneity

Y Chen, Y Fang, R Wang, Y Tang, S Bai… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
The compositional heterogeneity in high-entropy alloys (HEAs) has been reported to be an
inherent entity, which significantly alters the mechanical properties of materials by tuning the …

Enhanced strength-ductility synergy in high-entropy alloys via architecting three-level gradient hierarchical nanostructure

L Zeng, L Zeng, P Xu, W Liu, T Liang, W Li… - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gradient microstructural design represents a new strategy for enhancing strength-ductility
synergy of high/medium entropy alloys (H/MEAs). However, most of the reported gradient …

Strategies for Achieving Strength–Ductility Synergy in Face‐Centered Cubic High‐and Medium‐Entropy Alloys

D Han, S Cai, W Sun, B Yang… - Advanced Engineering …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
High‐and medium‐entropy alloys (HEAs/MEAs), also called as multicomponent alloys, are a
new class of materials that break through the traditional alloy design concept based on …

Hierarchical microstructure design to tune the mechanical behavior of an interstitial TRIP-TWIP high-entropy alloy

J Su, D Raabe, Z Li - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
We demonstrate a novel approach of utilizing a hierarchical microstructure design to
improve the mechanical properties of an interstitial carbon doped high-entropy alloy (HEA) …

A new strategy to overcome the strength-ductility trade off of high entropy alloy

W Fu, H Li, Y Huang, Z Ning, J Sun - Scripta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Here, a new strategy, ie, laser shock peening (LSP) followed by cyclic deep cryogenic
treatment (DCT), is proposed to generate the gradient hierarchical structures and thus …