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Creep is a serious concern reducing the efficiency and service life of components in various structural applications. Multi-principal element alloys are attractive as a new generation of structural materials due to their desirable elevated temperature mechanical properties. Here, time-dependent plastic deformation behavior of two multi-principal element alloys, CoCrNi and CoCrFeMnNi, was investigated using nano-indentation technique over the temperature range of 298 K to 573 K under static and dynamic loads with applied load up to 1000 mN. The stress exponent was determined to be in the range of 15 to 135 indicating dislocation creep as the dominant mechanism. The activation volume was ~25b3 for both CoCrNi and CoCrFeMnNi alloys, which is in the range indicating dislocation glide. The stress exponent increased with increasing indentation depth due to higher density and entanglement of dislocations, and decreased with increasing temperature owing to thermally activated dislocations. The results for the two multi-principal element alloys were compared with pure Ni. CoCrNi showed the smallest creep displacement and the highest activation energy among the three systems studied indicating its superior creep resistance.
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A comprehensive first-principles study of the effects of the exchange-correlation functional and magnetism on defect and diffusion properties of the CoCrNi medium-entropy alloy
The present work is a novel, systematic study of the effect of density functional theory input parameters on the vacancy formation energy (VFE), migration barrier for diffusion, and electronic structure for each element in the CoCrNi medium-entropy alloy (MEA). In particular, the novelties include: (1) calculating the aforementioned properties of Co, Cr, or Ni, in the CoCrNi MEA using magnetic and non-magnetic states, and two versions of the generalized gradient approximation: Perdew, Burke, and Ernzerhof (PBE) and the PBE version for solids (PBEsol), and (2) a detailed comparison of 0 K activation energy to experimental creep activation energies. First-principles calculations at 0 K are performed using the Vienna ab-initio simulation package. Special quasirandom structures (SQS) and Widom-type substitution are employed. For each element, Co, Cr, or Ni, non-magnetic calculations result in a higher VFE and larger range of calculated values for the configurations studied. The averaged migration barrier is the highest for Co in the CoCrNi for three of four sets of calculation parameters in the configurations studied. Finally, the results indicate that the average 0 K activation energy for diffusion makes up 70–80% of the experimental creep activation energy, depending on the exchange-correlation functional employed.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2046670
- PAR ID:
- 10659539
- Publisher / Repository:
- Elsevier
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Materials Today Communications
- Volume:
- 50
- Issue:
- C
- ISSN:
- 2352-4928
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 114609
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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