Abstract
This study investigated the atomic-scale deformation mechanism of multiphase CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloys(HEAs)at liquid helium,liquid nitrogen,and room temperatures.A million-atom multiphase HEA was prepared using molecular dynamics simulation involving melt and quench processes.The HEA exhibited high-density dislocations and some twins,consistent with experimental observations.Quantitative analysis revealed an inconsistent evolution of the microstructure under tensile de-formation.In particular,the elastic and initial plastic stages exhibited an increase in the disordered structure at the expense of the face-centered cubic and hexagonal close-packed structures,followed by a subsequent transformation involving multiple structural rearrangements.Furthermore,through sparse identification,a model depicting microstructural evolution during ten-sion was extracted for the CoCrFeNi HEA at three typical temperatures and three tensile rates.The model highlighted the importance of the body-centered cubic structure in the evolutionary process.