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Nanoindentation Creep Behavior of an Al0.3CoCrFeNi High-Entropy Alloy

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Nanoindentation creep behavior was studied on a coarse-grained Al0.3CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy with a single face-centered cubic structure. The effects of the indentation size and loading rate on creep behavior were investigated. The experimental results show that the hardness, creep depth, creep strain rate, and stress exponent are all dependent on the holding load and loading rate. The creep behavior shows a remarkable indentation size effect at different maximum indentation loads. The dominant creep mechanism is dislocation creep at high indentation loads and self-diffusion at low indentation loads. An obvious loading rate sensitivity of creep behavior is found under different loading rates for the alloy. A high loading rate can lead to a high strain gradient, and numerous dislocations emerge and entangle together. Then during the holding time, a large creep deformation characteristic with a high stress exponent will happen.

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Acknowledgments

The research was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51121061/51171163). Gong Li would like to acknowledge the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (Grant No. 20131333110019). Peter K. Liaw would like to acknowledge the U.S. National Science Foundation Project (CMMI-1100080), the U.S. Army Research Office Project (W911NF-13-1-0438) with the program manager, S. N. Mathaudhu, D. M. Stepp, and C. Coohes, and the DOE, Office of Fossil Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (DE-FE-0008855, DE-FE-0011194, and DE-FE-0024054), with Mr. V. Cedro, Mr. R. Dunst, and Dr. J. Mullen as program managers, respectively.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

    Lijun Zhang (Doctor), Pengfei Yu (Doctor), Hu Cheng (Doctor), Huan Zhang (Doctor), Qin Jing (Professor), Mingzhen Ma (Professor), Gong Li (Professor) & Riping Liu (Professor)

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

    Haoyan Diao (Doctor), Yunzhu Shi (Doctor), Bilin Chen (Doctor), Peiyong Chen (Doctor), Rui Feng (Doctor), Jie Bai (Doctor), P. K. Liaw (Professor) & Gong Li (Professor)

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Zhang, L., Yu, P., Cheng, H. et al. Nanoindentation Creep Behavior of an Al0.3CoCrFeNi High-Entropy Alloy. Metall Mater Trans A 47, 5871–5875 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-016-3469-8

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