Abstract
High-and medium-entropy alloys(HEAs and MEAs)possess high solid-solution strength.Numerous in-vestigations have been conducted on its impact on yield strength,however,there are limited reports regarding the relation between solid-solution strengthening and strain-hardening rate.In addition,no attempt has been made to account for the dislocation-mediated plasticity;most works focused on twinning-or transformation-induced plasticity(TWIP or TRIP).In this work we reveal the role of solid-solution strengthening on the strain-hardening rate via systematically investigating evolutions of defor-mation structures by controlling the Cr/V ratio in prototypical V1-xCrxCoNi alloys.Comparing the TWIP of CrCoNi with the dislocation slip of V0.4Cr0.6CoNi,the hardening rate of CrCoNi was superior to slip-band refinements of V0.4Cr0.6CoNi due to the dynamic Hall-Petch effect.However,as V content increased fur-ther to V0.7Cr0.3CoNi and VCoNi,their rate of slip-band refinement in V0.7Cr0.3CoNi and VCoNi with high solid-solution strength surpassed that of CrCoNi.Although it is generally accepted in conventional alloys that deformation twinning results in a higher strain-hardening rate than dislocation-mediated plasticity,we observed that the latter can be predominant in the former under an activated huge solid-solution strengthening effect.The high solid-solution strength lowered the cross-slip activation and consequently retarded the dislocation rearrangement rate,i.e.,the dynamic recovery.This delay in the hardening rate decrease,therefore,increased the strain-hardening rate,results in an overall higher strain-hardening rate of V-rich alloys.
基金项目
This work was financially supported by the POSCO Science Fel-lowship of POSCO TJ Park Foundation,the National Research Foun-dati(NRF-2020R1C1C1003554)
Creative Ma-terials Discovery Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)funded by the Ministry of Science and(NRF-2016M3D1A1023384)
and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology(KIAT)grant funded by the Korea Government(MOTIE)
and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology(KIAT)grant funded by the Korea Government(P0002019)