Atomic displacement in the CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy – A scaling factor to predict solid solution strengthening

By N. Okamoto, Koretaka Yuge, Katsushi Tanaka, Haruyuki Inui, Easo P. George. 2016

234 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Although metals strengthened by alloying have been used for millennia, models to quantify solid solution strengthening (SSS) were first proposed scarcely seventy years ago. Early models could predict the strengths of only simple alloys such as dilute binaries and not those of compositionally complex alloys because of the difficulty of calculating dislocation-solute interaction energies. Recently, models and theories of SSS have been proposed to tackle complex high-entropy alloys (HEAs). Here we show that the strength at 0 K of a prototypical HEA, CrMnFeCoNi, can be scaled and predicted using the root-mean-square atomic displacement, which can be deduced from X-ray diffraction and first-principles calculations as the isotropic atomic displacement parameter, that is, the average displacements of the constituent atoms from regular lattice positions. We show that our approach can be applied successfully to rationalize SSS in FeCoNi, MnFeCoNi, MnCoNi, MnFeNi, CrCoNi, CrFeCoNi, and CrMnCoNi, which are all medium-entropy subsets of the CrMnFeCoNi HEA.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/79f47ae582a5f701f48c644695e325bfa3bcb253

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Aerospace Engineering

  1. M. Ghazisaeidi
  2. C. Varvenne
  3. M. Shih
  4. Carlyn R. LaRosa

In Mechanical Engineering

  1. M. Ghazisaeidi
  2. M. Shih
  3. Carlyn R. LaRosa
  4. C. Varvenne

Citations in the corpus