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Solute-strengthening in metal alloys with short-range order

William Curtin, Shankha Nag

Recent surging interest in strengthening of High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) with possible chemical ordering motivates the development of new theory. Here, an existing theory for random alloys that accounts for solute-dislocation and solute–solute interactions i ...

2024

Strengthening of edge prism dislocations in Mg-Zn by cross-core diffusion

William Curtin

The activation of prismatic slip in Mg and its alloys can be beneficial for deformation and forming. Experiments show that addition of Zn and Al solutes have a softening effect at/below room temperature, attributed to solutes facilitating basal-prism-basal ...

2024

Strengthening mechanisms in dilute and random solid solution high-entropy BCC alloys

Alireza Ghafarollahi

Tuning the mechanical properties of metals, including strength, through adjusting the type and/or concentration of added solute elements, has been recognized as an effective way to design and produce materials with desired or optimized mechanical propertie ...

EPFL2022

Modeling peak-aged precipitate strengthening in Al–Mg–Si alloys

William Curtin, Yi Hu

Strengthening by needle-shaped precipitates is critical in Al–Mg–Si alloys. Here, the strengthening is studied computationally at the peak-aged condition where precipitate shearing and Orowan looping are usually considered to have equal strengths. Pseudo-r ...

2021

Precipitation Strengthening in Al-Mg-Si Alloys

Yi Hu

Precipitation strengthening is one of the key strengthening strategies in many industrial alloys like aluminum alloys, nickel-based superalloys, etc. The yield strength of alloy is improved by forming precipitates in materials and employing them as obstacl ...

EPFL2021

Solute-strengthening in elastically anisotropic fcc alloys

William Curtin, Céline Varvenne, Shankha Nag

Dislocation motion through a random alloy is impeded by its interactions with the compositional fluctuations intrinsic to the alloy, leading to strengthening. A recent theory predicts the strengthening as a function of the solute-dislocation interaction en ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Atomic Scale Investigations into the Origins of Ductility in Mg Alloys

Rasool Ahmad

The industrial applications of Mg, the lightest structural metal, and abundant in Earth's crust, are hampered by its low intrinsic ductility and low fracture toughness at room temperature which is attributed to the underlying less symmetric and plastically ...

EPFL2020

Concurrent multiscale modeling and theory of solute-strengthening for dilute and complex concentrated alloys

Shankha Nag

Under common processing conditions, both dilute and complex concentrated alloys are often realized as random alloys, with no correlation in the occupancy of lattice sites by the constituent atom types. The current thesis primary addresses two problems in r ...

EPFL2020

Origin of high strength in the CoCrFeNiPd high-entropy alloy

William Curtin, Binglun Yin

IMPACT STATEMENT Experiments and theory are highlighting chemical ordering in high-entropy alloys (HEAs) as important for mechanical properties but the high strength in CoCrFeNiPd is predicted here to be achievable in the random alloy due to the large misf ...

2020

The mechanics of crack-tip dislocation emission and twinning

Predrag Andric

Dislocation emission from a crack tip is a necessary mechanism for crack tip blunting and toughening. A material is intrinsically ductile under Mode I loading when the critical stress intensity

K_{Ie}

for dislocation emission is lower than the critical s ...

EPFL2019

The mechanics of crack-tip dislocation emission and twinning

Predrag Andric

Dislocation emission from a crack tip is a necessary mechanism for crack tip blunting and toughening. A material is intrinsically ductile under Mode I loading when the critical stress intensity

K_{Ie}

for dislocation emission is lower than the critical s ...

EPFL2019