scholarly journals Magnetic, electrical and mechanical properties of Fe40Mn40Co10Cr10 high entropy alloy

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Egilmez ◽  
W. Abuzaid

AbstractA prototypical, single-phase, and non-equiatomic high entropy alloy Fe40Mn40Co10Cr10 has been mechanically deformed at room and cryogenic temperatures. Plastic deformation was accommodated via crystallographic slip at room temperature while transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) has been observed in samples deformed at 77 K. The stress-induced martensitic transformation occurred from face-centered cubic (FCC) to hexagonal close-packed (HCP) structures. A detailed electron backscatter diffraction analysis was utilized to detect phase change and evaluate the evolution of the HCP phase volume fraction as a function of plastic strain. Physical properties of undeformed and deformed samples were measured to elucidate the effect of deformation-induced phase transitions on the magnetic and electrical properties of Fe40Mn40Co10Cr10 alloy. Relatively small magnetic moments along with non-saturating magnetic field dependencies suggest that the ground state in the considered material is ferrimagnetic ordering with coexisting antiferromagnetic phase. The temperature evolution of the coercive fields has been revealed for all samples. The magnitudes of the coercive fields place the considered system into the semi-hard magnetic alloys category. The temperature dependence of the zero-field cooled (ZFC) and field cooled (FC) magnetization was measured for all samples in the low field regime and the origin of irreversibility in ZFC/FC curves was discussed. Besides, the temperature dependence of the resistivity in all samples was measured and the possible conduction mechanisms were discussed.

2021 ◽  
Vol 316 ◽  
pp. 364-368
Author(s):  
Dmitry Shaysultanov ◽  
Kazimzhon Raimov ◽  
Nikita Stepanov

Fe49Mn30Cr10Co10C1 high entropy alloy (HEA) is produced by induction melting. The as-cast alloy is cold rolled and annealed at 900°C, to produce fine recrystallized structure before friction stir welding (FSW). The structure of the annealed alloy consists of a recrystallized face-centered cubic (fcc, γ) and hexagonal close-packed (hcp, ε) phases with volume fractions of 91% and 5%, respectively, as well as M23C6 carbides with the volume fraction of 4%. Sound weld without visible defects, such as porosity or cracks, are obtained. Friction stir welding results in a decrease in the average grain size from 7.0 to 1.9 μm in the stir zone. The volume fraction of the M23C6 carbides decreases to 1% after FSW. The alloy shows high yield strength and ultimate tensile strength of 475 MPa and 865 MPa, respectively, together with elongation of 70%.


Metals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 408
Author(s):  
Huizhong Li ◽  
He Lin ◽  
Xiaopeng Liang ◽  
Weiwei He ◽  
Bin Liu ◽  
...  

In this work, an in-situ CoCrFeNi-M6Cp high entropy-alloy (HEA) based hardmetal with a composition of Co25Cr21Fe18Ni23Mo7Nb3WC2 was fabricated by the powder metallurgy (PM) method. Microstructures and mechanical properties of this HEA were characterized and analyzed. The results exhibit that this HEA possesses a two-phase microstructure consisting of the face-centered cubic (FCC) matrix phase and the carbide M6C phase. This HEA has an average grain size of 2.2 μm, and the mean size and volume fraction of carbide particles are 1.2 μm and 20%. The tensile tests show that the alloy has a yield strength of 573 MPa, ultimate tensile strength of 895 MPa and elongation of 5.5% at room temperature. The contributions from different strengthening mechanisms in this HEA were calculated. The grain boundary strengthening is the dominant strengthening mechanism, and the carbide particles are significant for the further enhancement of yield strength by the dislocation strengthening and Orowan strengthening. In addition, with increasing temperatures from 600 °C to 900 °C, the HEA shows a reduced yield strength (YS) from 473 MPa to 142 MPa, a decreased ultimate tensile strength (UTS) from 741 MPa to 165 MPa and an enhanced elongation from 10.5% to 31%.


Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Guo ◽  
Cong Tang ◽  
Glynn Rothwell ◽  
Lisa Li ◽  
Yun-Che Wang ◽  
...  

High-entropy alloy (HEA) offers great flexibility in materials design with 3–5 principal elements and a range of unique advantages such as good microstructure stability, mechanical strength over a broad range of temperatures and corrosion resistance, etc. Welding of high entropy alloy, as a key joining method, is an important emerging area with significant potential impact to future application-oriented research and technological developments in HEAs. The selection of feasible welding processes with optimized parameters is essential to enhance the applications of HEAs. However, the structure of the welded joints varies with material systems, welding methods and parameters. A systemic understanding of the structures and properties of the weldment is directly relevant to the application of HEAs as well as managing the effect of welding on situations such as corrosion that are known to be a service life limiting factor of welded structures in conditions such as marine environments. In this paper, key recent work on welding of HEAs is reviewed in detail focusing on the research of main HEA systems when applying different welding techniques. The experimental details including sample preparation, sample size (thickness) and welding conditions reflecting energy input are summarized and key issues are highlighted. The microstructures and properties of different welding zones, in particular the fusion zone (FZ) and the heat affected zones (HAZ), formed with different welding methods are compared and presented in details and the structure-property relationships are discussed. The work shows that the weldability of HEAs varies with the HEA composition groups and the welding method employed. Arc and laser welding of AlCoCrFeNi HEAs results in lower hardness in the FZ and HAZ and reduced overall strength. Friction stir welding results in higher hardness in the FZ and achieves comparable/higher strength of the welded joints in tensile tests. The welded HEAs are capable of maintaining a reasonable proportion of the ductility. The key structure changes including element distribution, the volume fraction of face centered cubic (FCC) and body centered cubic (BCC) phase as well as reported changes in the lattice constants are summarized and analyzed. Detailed mechanisms governing the mechanical properties including the grain size-property/hardness relationship in the form of Hall–Petch (H–P) effect for both bulk and welded structure of HEAs are compared. Finally, future challenges and main areas to research are highlighted.


2016 ◽  
Vol 879 ◽  
pp. 1853-1858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikita Stepanov ◽  
Dmitry Shaysultanov ◽  
Nikita Yurchenko ◽  
Margarita Klimova ◽  
Sergey Zherebtsov ◽  
...  

The effect of plastic deformation under various conditions of the equiatomic CoCrFeNiMn alloy with single face-centered cubic phase structure was studied. The alloy was rolled at room and cryogenic temperatures, and uniaxially compressed at room temperature and temperatures of 600-1100°C with different height reductions. In addition, multiaxial forging at 900-1000°C was performed. Scanning and transmission electron microscopy, including EBSD analysis, was widely employed to characterize microstructure of the deformed alloy. At room and cryogenic temperatures, mechanical twinning and shear banding plays play dominant role in microstructure evolution. Extensive refinement of the microstructure occurs as the result of rolling with reduction of 80%. During deformation at 600-1100°C, discontinuous dynamic recrystallization takes place. The recrystallized grains size and their volume fraction increases with increase of deformation temperature. Multiaxial forging at 900-1000°C was used to produce fully recrystallized structure with average grain size of 6.7 μm. The alloy in the initial condition had low yield strength of 160 Mpa but remarkable tensile ductility of 68%. Rolling substantial increases yield strength to 1120-1290 MPa, but results in loss of ductility. After multiaxial forging the alloy has balanced combination of properties – yield strength of 280 MPa and elongation of 56%.


2014 ◽  
Vol 789 ◽  
pp. 48-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Dong ◽  
Qiu Shi Chen ◽  
Yi Ping Lu ◽  
Peng Chao Zhang ◽  
Ting Ju Li

A bulk casting ingot (Ø70 × 150mm) of CoCrFeNiTi0.5 high entropy alloy was prepared by vacuum medium frequency induction melting. The samples from the ingot were aged for 12h in the temperature range of 900-1100°C and then quenched in water to investigate the effect of aging temperature on the microstructure and hardness of CoCrFeNiTi0.5 alloy. The crystalline structure of as-cast CoCrFeNiTi0.5 alloy consisted of the principal face-centered cubic (FCC) dendrite phase plus (Ni, Ti)-rich R phase, (Fe, Cr)-rich σ phase, (Co, Ti)-rich Laves phase within the inter-dendrite area. The dendrite contained approximately equivalent amount of Co, Cr, Fe, Ni and a smaller amount of Ti element. After aging treatment in the temperature range of 900-1000°C, the (Co, Ti)-rich phase disappeared while the amount of (Ni, Ti)-rich phase and (Fe, Cr)-rich phase increased. But the volume fraction of FCC dendrite phase increased and the intermetallic phases decreased after aging at 1100°C. The micro-hardness and the macro-hardness of the as-cast CoCrFeNiTi0.5 alloy were HV616.8 and HRC52, respectively. After heat treatment at 1000°C, the micro-hardness and macro-hardness decreased from HV616.8 to HV386.8 and from HRC52 to HRC42.7, respectively.


Author(s):  
A. A. Saraeva ◽  

Recently, the interest of researchers has focused on a new FCC class (FCC – face-centered cubic lattice) high-entropy alloys (HEA), due to their unique properties – high values of the strain hardening coefficient, good plasticity, and ductile fracture at low test temperatures. Such a combination of properties in an FCC of HEA is achieved by mixing five or more elements in equal atomic proportions. Due to the strong temperature dependence of stresses at the σ0.1(T) yield point, these alloys have low σ0.1 values at temperatures above room temperature, which hinders their practical application. A precipitation hardening is an effective way to achieve high strength and is successfully used for hardening HEA FCC. The paper studied the influence of ageing at 923 K for 4 hours and at 1073 K for 18 and 30 hours on the mechanical behavior of single crystals of (CoCrFeNi)94Ti2Al4 (at.%) HEA FCC oriented along the [001] direction under tension. Ageing at 923 K for 4 hours and at 1073 K for 18 and 30 hours leads to the precipitation of γ′-phase particles, the size and volume fraction of which depend on the ageing temperature and time. The γ′-phase particles precipitation leads to an increase in stresses at the yield point from 47 MPa (ageing at 923 K, 4 hours) to 226 MPa (ageing at 1073 K, 30 hours) relative to quenched crystals at 296 K. The study identified the dependence of the strain hardening coefficient, plasticity, and the maximum stress level before fracture on heat treatment. The author discussed the reasons for the growth of stresses at the yield point and the strain hardening coefficient upon precipitation of γ′-phase particles.


Metals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lianzan Yang ◽  
Yongyan Li ◽  
Zhifeng Wang ◽  
Weimin Zhao ◽  
Chunling Qin

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) present excellent mechanical properties. However, the exploitation of chemical properties of HEAs is far less than that of mechanical properties, which is mainly limited by the low specific surface area of HEAs synthesized by traditional methods. Thus, it is vital to develop new routes to fabricate HEAs with novel three-dimensional structures and a high specific surface area. Herein, we develop a facile approach to fabricate nanoporous noble metal quasi-HEA microspheres by melt-spinning and dealloying. The as-obtained nanoporous Cu30Au23Pt22Pd25 quasi-HEA microspheres present a hierarchical porous structure with a high specific surface area of 69.5 m2/g and a multiphase approximatively componential solid solution characteristic with a broad single-group face-centered cubic XRD pattern, which is different from the traditional single-phase or two-phase solid solution HEAs. To differentiate, these are named quasi-HEAs. The synthetic strategy proposed in this paper opens the door for the synthesis of porous quasi-HEAs related materials, and is expected to promote further applications of quasi-HEAs in various chemical fields.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashutosh Sharma ◽  
Byungmin Ahn

AbstractIn this work, we studied the brazing characteristics of Al2O3 and 3D printed Ti–6Al–4V alloys using a novel equiatomic AlZnCuFeSi high entropy alloy filler (HEAF). The HEAF was prepared by mechanical alloying of the constituent powder and spark plasma sintering (SPS) approach. The filler microstructure, wettability and melting point were investigated. The mechanical and joint strength properties were also evaluated. The results showed that the developed AlZnCuFeSi HEAF consists of a dual phase (Cu–Zn, face-centered cubic (FCC)) and Al–Fe–Si rich (base centered cubic, BCC) phases. The phase structure of the (Cu–Al + Ti–Fe–Si)/solid solution promises a robust joint between Al2O3 and Ti–6Al–4V. In addition, the joint interfacial reaction was found to be modulated by the brazing temperature and time because of the altered activity of Ti and Zn. The optimum shear strength reached 84 MPa when the joint was brazed at 1050 °C for 60 s. The results can be promising for the integration of completely different materials using the entropy driven fillers developed in this study.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 742
Author(s):  
Motomichi Koyama ◽  
Takeaki Gondo ◽  
Kaneaki Tsuzaki

The effects of ausforming in an Fe30Mn10Cr10Co high-entropy alloy on the microstructure, hardness, and plastic anisotropy were investigated. The alloy showed a dual-phase microstructure consisting of face-centered cubic (FCC) austenite and hexagonal close-packed (HCP) martensite in the as-solution-treated condition, and the finish temperature for the reverse transformation was below 200 °C. Therefore, low-temperature ausforming at 200 °C was achieved, which resulted in microstructure refinement and significantly increased the hardness. Furthermore, plasticity anisotropy, a common problem in HCP structures, was suppressed by the ausforming treatment. This, in turn, reduced the scatter of the hardness.


Author(s):  
Martin Löbel ◽  
Thomas Lindner ◽  
Maximilian Grimm ◽  
Lisa-Marie Rymer ◽  
Thomas Lampke

AbstractHigh-entropy alloys (HEAs) have shown a wide range of promising structural and functional properties. By the application of coating technology, an economical exploitation can be achieved. The high wear and corrosion resistance of HEAs make them particularly interesting for the application as protective coatings. Especially for alloys with a high chromium content, a high corrosion resistance has been revealed. For the current investigations, the equimolar HEA CrFeCoNi with a single-phase face centered cubic structure is considered as a base alloy system. To increase the corrosion resistance as well as the hardness and strength, the influence of the alloying elements aluminum and molybdenum is analyzed. For the current investigations, the high kinetic process high-velocity oxygen fuel thermal spraying (HVOF) has been considered to produce coatings with a low porosity and oxide content. Feedstock is produced by inert gas atomization. The influence of the alloy composition on the microstructure, phase formation and resulting property profile is studied in detail. A detailed analysis of the corrosion resistance and underlying mechanisms is conducted. The pitting and passivation behavior are investigated by potentiodynamic polarization measurements in NaCl and H2SO4 electrolyte. A distinct improvement of the corrosion resistance can be achieved for the alloy Al0.3CrFeCoNiMo0.2.


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