Exceptional damage-tolerance of a medium-entropy alloy CrCoNi at cryogenic temperatures

Bernd Gludovatz, Anton Hohenwarter, Keli V.S. Thurston, Hongbin Bei, Zhenggang Wu, E.P. George, Robert O. Ritchie · Nature Communications · 2016 · engineering · 10.1038/ncomms10602 · record gludovatz2016-exceptional-damage-tolerance-of-a
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High-entropy alloys medium-entropy alloy configurational entropy Cantor alloy nano-twinning strain hardening solid solution intermetallic phases twinning-induced plasticity steels earlier onset of deformation nano-twinning twinning defeats the strength-toughness compromise fracture toughness strain-hardening exponent experiment
Method, as described: uniaxial tension and fracture-toughness testing from 293 to 77 K, with SEM of the propagated crack and X-ray diffraction to confirm the single phase

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object_of_studythe equiatomic three-element CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy, and its strength, ductility and fracture toughness from room temperature to 77 K
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limitationswhy this particular combination of elements forms a single phase while others of comparable configurational entropy do not remains unexplained
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transfersthe twinning-induced plasticity mechanism, recognised first in Hadfield manganese steels and copper thin films and applied here to explain an entropy-named alloy
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controlsthe five-element CrMnFeCoNi alloy, tested by the same group over the same temperature range, as the comparison
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eliminates: a cryogenic toughness attributed to medium-entropy composition when the five-element alloy from the same laboratory over the same range is the thing it must beat · outcome: held
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