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Microstructure, Mechanical Properties, and Sliding Wear Behavior of Oxide-Dispersion-Strengthened FeMnNi Alloy Fabricated by Spark Plasma Sintering

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The face-centered-cubic (fcc) CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy suffers from low strength and wear resistance at ambient temperature. Herein, we developed a strategy to overcome the strength/ductility trade-off and simultaneously increase the wear resistance via the in situ formation of uniformly dispersed Mn3O4 nanoparticles in an ultrafine-grained fcc FeMnNi matrix. The obtained equiatomic FeMnNi alloy exhibited a high yield strength of up to 912 MPa and an elongation of 19 pct. Grain boundary and oxide-dispersion-strengthened were found to be the main strengthening mechanisms. Ball-on-disk wear tests showed that the FeMnNi alloy had low wear rates in the order of 10−4-10−5 mm3/(N m) upon sliding against an alumina ball, and the wear mechanism changed from abrasive wear to oxidation and fatigue wear at high loads and sliding velocities. The presence of Mn3O4 nanoparticles hindered the severe plastic flow of the fcc matrix during sliding. The excellent combination of strength, ductility, and tribological performance of the present alloy renders it as a promising candidate for structural applications.

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This work was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Program of Shenzhen (Grant No. JCYJ20170412153039309) and Guangdong Innovative & Entrepreneurial Research Team Program (No. 2016ZT06C279). This work was also supported by the Pico Center at SUSTech that receives support from the Presidential Fund and Development and Reform Commission of Shenzhen Municipality. The authors would also like to thank Tiffany Jain, M.S., from Liwen Bianji, Edanz Group China (www.liwenbianji.cn/ac), for editing the English text of a draft of this manuscript.

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    Lu Yang, Cancan Zhao, Zhuo Cheng, Pengbo Wei & Fuzeng Ren

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  3. Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau, China

    Weiwei Zhu

  4. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Pengbo Wei

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Yang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, W. et al. Microstructure, Mechanical Properties, and Sliding Wear Behavior of Oxide-Dispersion-Strengthened FeMnNi Alloy Fabricated by Spark Plasma Sintering. Metall Mater Trans A 51, 2796–2810 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-020-05748-7

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