About this Abstract |
Meeting |
MS&T24: Materials Science & Technology
|
Symposium
|
Grain Boundaries, Interfaces, and Surfaces: Fundamental Structure-Property-Performance Relationships
|
Presentation Title |
Grain Boundary Segregation and Solute Drag in Multicomponent Alloys |
Author(s) |
Fadi Abdeljawad |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Fadi Abdeljawad |
Abstract Scope |
High entropy alloys (HEAs) are a class of structural materials that are composed of multiple elemental species in similar compositions. Recent experimental findings revealed sluggish grain coarsening in HEAs and attributed it to segregation of elemental species to grain boundaries (GBs). While GB segregation has been the subject of active research, GB solute drag in multicomponent alloys remains largely unexplored. Herein, we present a theoretical and computational model of GB segregation and dynamic solute drag in HEAs. The model accounts for bulk thermodynamics and the interaction of various elemental species with GBs, and it captures various mass transport mechanisms. As a demonstration, we consider concentrated ternary alloys, where we reveal solute drag profiles that are sensitively dependent on alloy-alloy interactions within the GB. Our approach provides avenues to employ GB segregation as a strategy to design HEAs with tailored microstructures. |