Atomistic simulations of dislocation mobility in refractory high-entropy alloys and the effect of chemical short-range order

S Yin, Y Zuo, A Abu-Odeh, H Zheng, XG Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) are designed for high elevated-temperature
strength, with both edge and screw dislocations playing an important role for plastic …

Ab initio modeling of the energy landscape for screw dislocations in body-centered cubic high-entropy alloys

S Yin, J Ding, M Asta, RO Ritchie - npj Computational Materials, 2020 - nature.com
In traditional body-centered cubic (bcc) metals, the core properties of screw dislocations play
a critical role in plastic deformation at low temperatures. Recently, much attention has been …

Atomistic understanding of incipient plasticity in BCC refractory high entropy alloys

X Liu, D Hua, W Wang, Q Zhou, S Li, J Shi, Y He… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the incipient plastic behavior of refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) is
crucial for their high-temperature applications. In this study, the initial dislocation nucleation …

Short-range ordering alters the dislocation nucleation and propagation in refractory high-entropy alloys

S Chen, ZH Aitken, S Pattamatta, Z Wu, ZG Yu… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
The role of short-range ordering (SRO) in the dislocation kinetics in refractory high-entropy
alloys (RHEAs) remains controversial. On one hand, it was shown by simulations that the …

The hierarchical energy landscape of screw dislocation motion in refractory high-entropy alloys

X Wang, F Maresca, P Cao - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) with concentrated solid solutions are conceived to possess a
rugged atomic and energy landscape in which dislocation motion necessarily proceeds to …

Impacts of atomic scale lattice distortion on dislocation activity in high-entropy alloys

P Wang, Y Wu, J Liu, H Wang - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
The concept of high-entropy alloys (HEAs) introduces a new path of developing advanced
materials with unique properties, among which excellent mechanical properties have …

Unusual activated processes controlling dislocation motion in body-centered-cubic high-entropy alloys

B Chen, S Li, H Zong, X Ding… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Atomistic simulations of dislocation mobility reveal that body-centered cubic (BCC) high-
entropy alloys (HEAs) are distinctly different from traditional BCC metals. HEAs are …

Strengthening in multi-principal element alloys with local-chemical-order roughened dislocation pathways

QJ Li, H Sheng, E Ma - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
High-entropy and medium-entropy alloys are presumed to have a configurational entropy as
high as that of an ideally mixed solid solution (SS) of multiple elements in near-equal …

Local chemical fluctuation mediated ductility in body-centered-cubic high-entropy alloys

Y Bu, Y Wu, Z Lei, X Yuan, H Wu, X Feng, J Liu, J Ding… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) open up a new horizon for discovering un-explored mechanical
properties and deformation mechanisms. Local chemical fluctuations (LCFs) in HEAs were …

Chemical short-range ordering and its strengthening effect in refractory high-entropy alloys

SD Wang, XJ Liu, ZF Lei, DY Lin, FG Bian, CM Yang… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
In this work, we perform first-principles calculations, coupled with synchrotron small-angle x-
ray scattering (SAXS) to investigate electronic origins of the chemical short-range ordering …