| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
MS&T24: Materials Science & Technology
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| Symposium
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Understanding High Entropy Materials via Data Science and Computational Approaches
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| Presentation Title |
Design Metastability in High-Entropy Alloys by Tailoring Unstable Fault Energies |
| Author(s) |
Xin Wang, Chenyang Li, Wei Chen, Wei Xiong |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Xin Wang |
| Abstract Scope |
Metastable alloys with transformation-/twinning-induced plasticity (TRIP/TWIP) can overcome the strength-ductility trade-off. The intrinsic stacking fault energy (ISFE) has been applied to tailor TRIP/TWIP in high-entropy alloys (HEAs) but with limited quantitative success. Here, we demonstrate a strategy for designing metastable HEAs and validate its effectiveness by discovering seven alloys with experimentally observed metastability for TRIP/TWIP. We propose unstable fault energies as the more effective design metric and attribute the deformation mechanism of metastable face-centered cubic alloys to unstable martensite fault energy (UMFE)/unstable twin fault energy (UTFE) rather than ISFE. Among the studied HEAs and steels, the traditional ISFE criterion fails in more than half of the cases, while the UMFE/UTFE criterion accurately predicts the deformation mechanisms in all cases. The UMFE/UTFE criterion provides an effective paradigm for developing metastable alloys with TRIP/TWIP for an enhanced strength-ductility synergy. |