Fluctuations in local shear-fault energy produce unique and dominating strengthening in metastable complex concentrated alloys

W Li, S Lyu, Y Chen, AHW Ngan - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Local chemical short-range ordering (SRO) and spatial fluctuations of planar fault energy
are important features of multi-element and metastable complex concentrated alloys (CCAs) …

[HTML][HTML] Strengthening in multi-principal element alloys with local-chemical-order roughened dislocation pathways

QJ Li, H Sheng, E Ma - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
High-entropy and medium-entropy alloys are presumed to have a configurational entropy as
high as that of an ideally mixed solid solution (SS) of multiple elements in near-equal …

Defect-induced inhomogeneous atomic environments in complex concentrated alloys

Y Xia, S Lyu, W Li, Y Chen, AHW Ngan - International Journal of Plasticity, 2023 - Elsevier
The multiple elements in equal ratios in complex concentrated alloys (CCAs) favor the
formation of local atomic environments like segregation or chemical ordering observed in …

[HTML][HTML] Models of dislocation glide and strengthening mechanisms in bcc complex concentrated alloys

X Zhou, X Wang, L Fey, S He, I Beyerlein, P Cao… - MRS Bulletin, 2023 - Springer
The mechanical response of complex concentrated alloys (CCAs) deviates from that of their
pure and dilute counterparts due to the introduction of a combinatorially sized chemical …

Dislocation plasticity in equiatomic NiCoCr alloys: Effect of short-range order

AH Naghdi, K Karimi, AE Poisvert, A Esfandiarpour… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Equiatomic NiCoCr solid solutions have been shown by recent experiments and atomistic
simulations to display exceptional mechanical properties that have been suggested to be …

Deformation faulting in a metastable CoCrNiW complex concentrated alloy: a case of negative intrinsic stacking fault energy?

S Wei, CC Tasan - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Microscopic crystalline defects are of fundamental importance in unraveling the plastic
deformation response and thereby tailoring the macroscopic load-bearing performances of …

Effects of short range ordering on the generalized stacking fault energy and deformation mechanisms in FCC multiprincipal element alloys

L Zhu, Z Wu - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Equiatomic FCC CrCoNi, VCoNi and CrCoNiFeMn exhibit distinctly different
deformation mechanisms where twinning is prevalent in CrCoNi and CrCoNiFeMn, but not …

[HTML][HTML] Stacking fault energy in concentrated alloys

M Shih, J Miao, M Mills, M Ghazisaeidi - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
We revisit the meaning of stacking fault energy (SFE) and the assumptions of equilibrium
dissociation of lattice dislocations in concentrated alloys. SFE is a unique value in pure …

Statistical modeling of the effect of chemical inhomogeneity on incipient plasticity in complex concentrated alloys

AMZ Tan, Z Li, H Gao - Physical Review Materials, 2023 - APS
In recent years, complex concentrated alloys (CCAs), also referred to as medium-or high-
entropy alloys, have attracted substantial research interest due to their excellent mechanical …

Two modes of screw dislocation glide in fcc single-phase concentrated alloys

YN Osetsky, GM Pharr, JR Morris - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Concentrated solid solution alloys (CSSAs), including medium-and high-entropy alloys, are
currently being considered as prospective materials in many applications. The behavior of …