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Phase Decomposition and Strengthening in Hfnbtatizr High Entropy Alloy from First-Principles Calculations
- Source :
- SSRN Electronic Journal.
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- Phase decomposition influences significantly the mechanical properties of high entropy alloys (HEAs). Prediction of the phase decomposition of HEA is greatly hindered by the hyper-dimensional composition space of the alloys. In the present work, we propose to represent the HEAs as various pseudo-binary alloys of which the temperature dependent free energies as functions of compositions may be readily calculated by using first-principles methods in combination with thermodynamic models. With the calculated free energies, the phase diagrams of the pseudo-binary alloys may be constructed and the phase decomposition can be predicted. This procedure is applied to Hf-Nb-Ta-Ti-Zr alloy with body-centered cubic (BCC) structure. We predict that the equiatomic HfNbTaTiZr HEA suffers from phase decomposition below critical temperature of 1298 K. The HEA decomposes most favorably to BCC NbTa-rich and HfZr-rich phases. The BCC HfZr-rich phase transfers to a hexagonal close-packed structure (HCP) phase at low temperature. The predicted compositions of the decomposed phases are in good agreement with experiment and Thermal-Calc modeling. Furthermore, the effect of the phase decomposition on the strength of the HEA is evaluated by considering the solid-solution and precipitation strengthening mechanisms. The precipitation strengthening effect is stronger than the solid-solution strengthening at the low annealing temperature but becomes weaker at high annealing temperature.
- Subjects :
- Work (thermodynamics)
Materials science
Polymers and Plastics
Annealing (metallurgy)
High entropy alloys
Alloy
Metals and Alloys
Thermodynamics
engineering.material
Decomposition
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter::Materials Science
Precipitation hardening
Phase (matter)
Ceramics and Composites
engineering
Phase diagram
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15565068
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- SSRN Electronic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....96ae0e33a2c32cff0214edaa5fd0d688