Materials Science and Engineering

Tensile properties and strengthening behavior of CoCrFeNiW high entropy alloys with heterogeneous structures

  • 高雪峰,陈 峣,任 浩,秦 刚,周启文,陈瑞润,郭景杰
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  • 1. National Key Laboratory for Precision Hot Processing of Metals, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China;
    2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang 110870, China

Online published: 2025-11-04

Abstract

Co30Cr30(FeNi)40-xWx (x=0-8 at.%, simplified as HW0-HW8, respectively) high entropy alloys (HEAs) were fabricated by vacuum arc-melting. The microstructure and tensile properties of as-cast and as-annealed alloys were investigated. The results show that HW2 and HW4 have a single FCC phase. The fine and granular μ phase is dispersed in FCC matrix and the area fraction increases with the increase of W content and annealing temperature. The soft FCC matrix and hard μ phase constitute the heterostructure with strain incompatibility. With the increase of W content from 0 to 8 at.%, the yield strength and tensile strength increase from 278 and 629 MPa to 530 and 839 MPa, respectively. The strain maintains 33%. The as-annealed HW8 exhibits superior yield strength (810 MPa) and tensile strength (1087 MPa). The yield strength improvement is attributed to solid-solution, precipitate, and back stress strengthening. Back stress strengthening plays a dominant role in improving tensile strength and plasticity by inducing high hardening behavior in heterogeneous structures.

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高雪峰,陈 峣,任 浩,秦 刚,周启文,陈瑞润,郭景杰 . Tensile properties and strengthening behavior of CoCrFeNiW high entropy alloys with heterogeneous structures[J]. Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 2024 , 34(3) : 890 -904 . DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(23)66441-6

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