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Strengthening Mechanisms and Deformation Behavior of Industrially-Cast and Lab-Cast Dual-Phase High Entropy Alloy

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An iron-rich high entropy alloy Al0.65CoCrFe2Ni comprising of both FCC and BCC phases was designed and fabricated using induction melting at a large industrial scale and suction casting at a small lab scale. Spinodally decomposed interdendritic regions were uniformly distributed in the industrially melted alloy, and a finer dendritic structure with smaller sized spinodal structures was observed in the alloy suction cast at lab scale. The suction cast alloy fabricated at the lab scale exhibited significantly higher compressive yield strength compared to the industrially cast alloy. The relative strengthening contributions in the alloys due to solid solution, grain boundary, dislocation interactions and interphase boundary were analyzed. Dislocation hardening was the major contributor responsible for the higher strength of the SC alloy. The deformation behavior in the alloys was examined with the help of orientation image mapping. Intense slip band formation at large strains in the industrially melted alloy indicates that cold working can be an effective technique to enhance the strength of the dual-phase high entropy alloy processed at a large scale.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to Professor Kamanio Chattopadhyay and his research group members for providing experimental facilities and technical support during processing the alloy at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India. The author also acknowledges the Central Instrumentation Facility at IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India, for providing testing and characterization facilities.

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    Samrat Tamuly & Prasenjit Khanikar

  2. Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500058, India

    Saurabh Dixit

  3. Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, 83402, USA

    Boopathy Kombaiah

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Samrat Tamuly: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data curation, Writing—original draft. Saurabh Dixit: Resources, Methodology. Boopathy Komabiah: Formal analysis, Review. Prasenjit Khanikar: Supervision, Writing—review & editing.

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Tamuly, S., Dixit, S., Kombaiah, B. et al. Strengthening Mechanisms and Deformation Behavior of Industrially-Cast and Lab-Cast Dual-Phase High Entropy Alloy. Met. Mater. Int. 29, 81–94 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12540-022-01211-x

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