Mechanism of elemental segregation around extended defects in high-entropy alloys and its effect on mechanical properties

S Ma, W Liu, Q Li, J Zhang, S Huang, Y Xiong, B Xu… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Elemental segregation around extended defects is common in high-entropy alloys (HEAs)
composed of multi-principal elements, which profoundly impacts their mechanical …

Effects of local elemental ordering on defect-grain boundary interactions in high-entropy alloys

S Zhao - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2021 - Elsevier
The way in which defects interact with grain boundaries (GBs) has profound influences on
materials performance. In this work, we study defect-GBs interactions in a model CuNiCoFe …

Density functional study of atomic arrangements in CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy and their impact on vacancy formation energy and segregation

SY Kang, A Tamm - Computational Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Using the density functional theory-coupled Monte Carlo approach, we explored the
chemical short-range order (SRO) and element segregation in equimolar CrMnFeCoNi …

Overcoming strength-ductility trade-off in high-entropy alloys by tuning chemical short-range order and grain size

S Guo, S Sui, M Wang, X Hao, H Chen, C Wang… - Intermetallics, 2022 - Elsevier
The chemical short-range order (CSRO) and grain size affect the strength and ductility of
high-entropy alloys (HEAs). However, their superposition effect has not yet been studied …

Grain boundary decohesion by nanoclustering Ni and Cr separately in CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloys

K Ming, L Li, Z Li, X Bi, J Wang - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
The loss of ductility with temperature has been widely observed in tensile tests of single-
phase face-centered cubic structured high-entropy alloys (HEAs). However, the fundamental …

Vacancy dependent mechanical behaviors of high-entropy alloy

J Peng, B Xie, X Zeng, Q Fang, B Liu, PK Liaw… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
An abundance of defects would be inevitably generated during manufacturing and service in
high-entropy alloys (HEAs). However, the mechanical properties of the damaged HEAs with …

Atomistic study on dislocation emission from segregated grain boundaries in high-entropy alloys

K Shiotani, T Niiyama, T Shimokawa - Physical Review Materials, 2023 - APS
As one of the promising candidates for developing next-generation structural materials, high-
entropy alloys (HEAs) have recently attracted significant interest because of their unique …

Impact of local chemical ordering on deformation mechanisms in single-crystalline CuNiCoFe high-entropy alloys: a molecular dynamics study

S Shuang, Y Liang, X Zhang, F Yuan… - … and Simulation in …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract High-entropy alloys (HEAs), composed of multiple constituent elements with
concentrations ranging from 5% to 35%, have been considered ideal solid solution of multi …

Aging induced segregation and nanoprecipitation in a severely deformed equiatomic high-entropy alloy

L Li, Z Li - Materials Characterization, 2020 - Elsevier
To shed light on the impact of severe deformation on the elemental segregation of high-
entropy alloys (HEAs) as well as the related changes in mechanical properties, we …

The Gaussian distribution of lattice size and atomic level heterogeneity in high entropy alloys

S Liu, Y Wei - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
It has been shown that heterogeneity at the micro-structure level can effectively enhance the
strength and ductility of materials. Here we demonstrate via density-functional theory …