Ultra-strong and strain-hardenable ultrafine-grained medium-entropy alloy via enhanced grain-boundary strengthening

Jeong Min Park; Dae Cheol Yang; Han Jin Kim; Dong Geun Kim; Sunghak Lee; Hyoung Seop Kim; Seok Su Sohn

doi:10.1080/21663831.2021.1913768

Ultra-strong and strain-hardenable ultrafine-grained medium-entropy alloy via enhanced grain-boundary strengthening

Jeong Min Park, Dae Cheol Yang, Han Jin Kim, Dong Geun Kim, Sunghak Lee, Hyoung Seop Kim, Seok Su Sohn

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An equiatomic VCoNi medium-entropy alloy possesses high sensitivity to grain-boundary strengthening, achieved by severe lattice distortions. Its ultrafine-grain structure enables 1.5 Gigapascal yield strength even for the fully recrystallized alloy with a single face-centered cubic structure. The high density of grain boundaries also generates high back stresses via piling up of massive dislocations, and the low cross-slip probabilities produce not only robust dislocation-mediated plasticity but also high back stress contribution to flow stress, which affords high strain-hardening capability to ultrafine-grain alloys, with 1.7 Gigapascal ultimate tensile strength with remarkable ductility. Our approach provides a new method for developing ultrastrong metallic materials.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	315-321
Number of pages	7
Journal	Materials Research Letters
Volume	9
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2021.1913768
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

grain boundary strengthening
Medium-entropy alloy
severe lattice distortion
severe plastic deformation
ultrafine grain structure

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Materials Science(all)

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