Pinning of dislocations in disordered alloys: effects of dislocation orientation

The current interest in compositionally complex alloys including so called high entropy alloys has caused renewed interest in the general problem of solute hardening. It has been suggested that this problem can be addressed by treating the alloy as an effective medium containing a random distribution of dilatation and compression centers representing the volumetric misfit of atoms of different species. The mean square stresses arising from such a random distribution can be calculated analytically, their spatial correlations are strongly anisotropic and exhibit long-range tails with third-order power law decay (Geslin and Rodney 2021; Geslin et al. 2021). Here we discuss implications of the anisotropic and long-range nature of the correlation functions for the pinning of dislocations of arbitrary orientation. While edge dislocations are found to follow the standard pinning paradigm, for dislocations of near screw orientation we demonstrate the co-existence of two types of pinning energy minima.

The Effect of Alloying Elements on Microstructure and Strength Property of Dual Two-Phase Intermetallic Alloys Based on Ni3Al-Ni3V Pseudo-Binary Alloy System

The microstructures and hardness property of dual two-phase intermetallic alloys that arecomposed of various kind of volume fractions of geometrically closed packed (GCP) Ni3Al(L12) and Ni3V(D022) phases were studied. The hardness of dual two-phase intermetallic alloys basically was explained by mixture rule in hardness between primary Ni3Al precipitates and eutectoid region.Nb and Ti addition raised the hardness of dual two-phase intermetallic alloys by solid solute hardening in the constituent phases.The additional hardening arising from interfacial area between primary Ni3Al precipitates and eutectoid region was also found. As temperature increases, theadditional hardening decreased for the base and Nb added alloys but decreased little for the Ti added alloys.

Electronic States and Doping Effect of Carbon in the Kink of BCC Iron

By the use of the first-principles method, based upon density functional theory, we investigated the effect of C upon the electronic structure of a kink on the ½[111](1¯10) edge dislocation in bcc iron. The results show that C has a tendency to segregate towards the kink. The structural energies of some atoms of interest in the kink with C are lower than those of corresponding atoms in the clean kink. Furthermore, the interactions between C and the neighboring Fe atoms are very strong due to the hybridization between the C 2p state and the Fe 3d4s4p states. We find that there exists some charge accumulations between C and the neighboring Fe atoms. The analysis of the electronic structure indicates that the introduction of C can stabilize the kink system and impede the sideways motion of the kink. The C induces a strong pinning effect on the ½[111](1¯10) edge dislocation and may result in solid solute hardening.

The Role of Carbon and Vacancies in Determining the Hardness of FeAl Intermetallic in the Quenched and the Aged States

ABSTRACTThe role of quenched-in vacancies in FeAl intermetallics on producing considerable hardening is well known, as is the softening on annealing as vacancies are annihilated. The present study examines quench hardening and anneal softening by quenched-in vacancies and interstitial carbon solute in Fe-40Al-C. Interstitial carbon is seen to be a more potent hardening agent than the vacancy, while the co-annihilation of vacancies and carbon atoms from solution during annealing leads to dislocation loop debris, and equiaxed or plate-like carbide precipitation, according to the annealing conditions. The processes occurring have been followed by detailed TEM studies, and are discussed in terms of the relative solubilities and diffusion rates of vacancies and carbon. The relevance of such interstitial solute hardening to the behaviour of other FeAl intermetallics is also briefly considered.

Deformation Mechanisms and Solid-Solution Strengthening in Ordered Alloys

ABSTRACTFundamental to understanding the results of alloy design studies, is the need for understanding the intrinsic role of solutes in a particular compound. For many compounds such an understanding must be built from a systematic exploration of the role of deviations from the stoichiometric composition as well as the role of ternary solute additions on the variation of flow behavior. Within most intermetallic systems the problem is complicated since the fundamental mechanisms of flow are not well established and, in those systems where these mechanisms are known, thermal activation can lead to dislocation-core transformations and changes in the operative slip systems with temperature. In general, flow may be governed by more than one dislocation process at a given temperature and deformation twinning may be a major contributing deformation mechanism. The problem of isolating the mechanisms of solid-solution hardening may, therefore, require treatment as a problem of combined strengthening mechanisms operating in parallel. This paper reviews the key aspects of deformation mechanisms and solute strengthening in intermetallic alloys. Classical elastic theories of solute hardening serve as an origin, from which, the progress made to date in isolating the mechanisms of solute hardening in ordered alloys is discussed.