本期包含金屬材料領域論文14篇,涵蓋了鋁合金、釬料、單晶銅、馬氏體鋼、高熵合金、純鈦及梯度T91鋼等,國內科研單位包括西安交通大學、湖南大學、沈陽金屬所等(通訊作者單位)。
Vol. 196 目錄
鈦納米粒子對增材制造2024鋁合金的變質處理
2. In-situ study of creep in Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu solder
Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu釬料蠕變的原位研究
3. Segregation of Ni at early stages of radiation damage in NiCoFeCr solid solution alloys
NiCoFeCr固溶體合金在輻照損傷初期的Ni偏析
4. Twin boundary sliding in single crystalline Cu and Al nanowires
單晶Cu和Al納米線中的孿晶界滑移
5. Effect of ageing on the microstructural evolution in a new design of maraging steels with carbon
時效過程對一種新型含碳馬氏體時效鋼組織演變的影響
6. Oxygen solutes induced anomalous hardening, toughening and embrittlement in body-centered cubic vanadium
氧溶質引起的體心立方釩異常硬化和脆化
7. Enhanced radiation tolerance of the Ni-Co-Cr-Fe high-entropy alloy as revealed from primary damage
通過一次損傷揭示Ni-Co-Cr-Fe高熵合金的優異的抗輻照性能
8. Vacancy diffusion in multi-principal element alloys: The role of chemical disorder in the ordered lattice
多主元合金中的空位擴散:有序晶格中化學組元無序的影響
9. Experimental evaluation of critical resolved shear stress for the first-order pyramidal c + a slip in commercially pure Ti by micropillar compression method
采用微柱壓縮實驗分析商用純鈦中一級錐體c + a滑移的臨界分切應力
10. He ion irradiation response of a gradient T91 steel
梯度T91鋼的He離子輻照響應
11. Intermixing of Fe and Cu on the atomic scale by high-pressure torsion as revealed by DC- and AC-SQUID susceptometry and atom probe tomography
通過磁化率測量和原子探針技術揭示高壓扭轉后鐵和銅在原子尺度上的混合
12. Phenomenon of ultra-fast tracer diffusion of Co in HCP high entropy alloys
HCP高熵合金中Co示蹤劑的超快擴散
13. Cyclic strain amplitude-dependent fatigue mechanism of gradient nanograined Cu
梯度納米銅中受應變幅度影響的周期疲勞機理
14. Determination of twinning path from broken symmetry: A revisit to deformation twinning in bcc metals
基于對稱性破損確定孿晶路徑: 對BCC金屬中形變孿晶機制的新探索
ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P1-16
1. Inoculation treatment of an additively manufactured 2024 aluminium alloy with titanium nanoparticles
鈦納米粒子對增材制造2024鋁合金的變質處理
Qiyang Tan?, Jingqi Zhang, Qiang Sun, Zhiqi Fan, Gan Li, Yu Yin, Yingang Liu, Ming-Xing Zhang?
Q. Tan: q.tan@uq.edu.au
M.-X. Zhang:mingxing.zhang@uq.edu.au
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.026
摘要
大量金屬激光選區熔煉(SLM)的研究表明,為了消除各向異性和熱裂,提高激光選區熔煉材料的可加工性能,有必要對激光選區熔煉材料的微觀組織進行優化。在本工作中,我們首次發現,Ti納米顆粒是激光選區熔煉2024鋁合金的一種非常有效的變質劑。通過加入0.7 wt%的Ti納米顆粒,可以有效地消除2024鋁合金的熱裂紋和柱狀組織,并在較寬的加工窗口內細化晶粒。這種顯著的晶粒細化是由于組織中原位形成了具有L12有序結構的Al3Ti納米粒子,這些納米粒子與Al基體形成共格界面,極大地促進了α-Al 在熔池凝固時的均勻形核。在經過傳統的T6熱處理后,這種激光熔煉的鋁合金展現出了極佳的強度和塑性耦合,抗拉強度432 ± 20 MPa,延伸率10 ± 0.8%,與鍛造的鋁合金性能相當。這一工作是使用激光選區熔煉方法制備高強度鋁合金的一項重要突破。
英文摘要
Considerable studies on metal selective laser melting (SLM) have proved the necessity to refine microstructure parts fabricated by SLM in order to eliminate property anisotropy, hot-tearing and to increase the SLM-processability. In the present work, Ti nanoparticles, at the first time, were discovered to be an extremely effective inoculant for an SLMed 2024 aluminium alloy. 0.7 wt% addition of Ti nanoparticles was capable of substantially eliminating the hot-tearing cracks and columnar structure, and refining the grains in the SLMed 2024 alloy in a broad processing window. The substantial grain refinement in the Ti-inoculated 2024 alloy was attributed to the in-situ formation of Al3Ti nanoparticles with a L12 ordered structure, which formed a coherent interface with Al matrix and therefore significantly promoted the heterogeneous nucleation of the α-Al during solidification of melt pools in the SLM process. After a conventional T6 heat treatment, this SLMed alloy exhibited a superior balance of strength and ductility (tensile strength was up to 432 ± 20 MPa and elongation of 10 ± 0.8%), which was comparable to its wrought counterpart. This work can be considered as a breakthrough in research of fabricating high-strength aluminium alloys using SLM.

ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P31-43
Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu釬料蠕變的原位研究
Tianhong Gu?, Vivian S. Tong, Christopher M. Gourlay, T. Ben Britton
T. Gu: t.gu15@imperial.ac.uk
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.013
摘要
我們通過原位蠕變實驗研究了具有柱狀晶組織的Sn-3Ag-0.5Cuwt%合金試樣在298K、30MPa恒定應力下的蠕變行為和組織演變。這項研究的重要之處在于,對于焊錫系統,298K是相對而言的高溫,而原位的組織觀察可以幫助我們了解材料變形乃至最終失效的機制。樣品的原位觀察是通過重復自動發光二極管和電子背散射衍射成像實現的。隨著應變的增加,我們觀測到樣品中的晶粒逐漸出現多邊形化和再結晶的現象,這些現象與基體-金屬間化合物界面附近的局部晶格扭轉有關。再結晶晶粒與母相表現為孿晶或者特殊的界面關系。結合兩種不同的成像方法,我們發現晶粒1(載荷方向偏離[100] 10.4°)的變形小于相鄰晶粒2(載荷方向偏離[110] 18.8°), 并在應變集中區域有滑移痕跡。在晶粒2中觀察到的滑移系為(1-10)[001],而在在晶粒1中觀察到滑移系為(1-10)[-1-11]/2和(110)[-111]/2。隨著塑性應變的增加,晶格取向梯度逐漸增大,而在斷口附近,我們觀測到再結晶過程與斷裂同時發生。
英文摘要
The creep behaviour and microstructural evolution of a Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu wt% sample with a columnar microstructure have been investigated through in-situ creep testing under constant stress of 30MPa at ~298 K. This is important, as 298 K is high temperature within the solder system and in-situ observations of microstructure evolution confirm the mechanisms involved in deformation and ultimately failure of the material. The sample has been observed in-situ using repeat and automatic forescatter diode and auto electron backscatter diffraction imaging. During deformation, polygonisation and recrystallisation are observed heterogeneously with increasing strain, and these correlate with local lattice rotations near matrix-intermetallic compound interfaces. Recrystallised grains have either twin or special boundary relationships to their parent grains. The combination of these two imaging methods reveal grain 1(loading direction, LD, 10.4° from [100]) deforms less than the neighbour grain 2 (LD 18.8° from [110]), with slip traces in the strain localised regions. In grain 2, (1-10)[001] slip system is observed and in grain 1 (1-10)[-1-11]/2 and (110)[-111]/2 slip systems are observed. Lattice orientation gradients build up with increasing plastic strain and near fracture recrystallisation is observed concurrent with fracture.

ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P44-51
3. Segregation of Ni at early stages of radiation damage in NiCoFeCr solid solution alloys
NiCoFeCr固溶體合金在輻照損傷初期的Ni偏析
F. Tuomisto?, I. Makkonen, J. Heikinheimo, F. Granberg, F. Djurabekova, K. Nordlund, G. Velisa, H. Bei, H. Xue, W.J. Weber, Y. Zhang
F. Tuomisto: fifilip.tuomisto@helsinki.fifi
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.024
摘要
我們研究了一系列含有Ni,Co,Fe和/或Cr的單相固溶體合金在輻照下的缺陷演化。研究發現2-4元單相固溶體中,在輻照劑量1dpa下的輻照早期階段就已經發生了Ni偏聚。我們通過在單晶樣品中跟蹤正電子湮滅信號隨輻照劑量的變化得到了這一結論,并通過在同一模型體系中對高熵合金的分子動力學模擬加以佐證。這種短程有序的表現引起了我們對輻照后高熵合金中原子水平成分起伏的注意。在某些合金中,由于元素有傾向性的擴散,使得離子輻照可能引起短程有序。這項工作表明,雖然合金中的不同元素在輻照前完全隨機排列,但我們需要重新考慮能否假設輻照后的合金仍具備這種隨機排列。
英文摘要
Defect evolution under irradiation is investigated in a set of single-phase concentrated solid solution alloys (SP-CSAs) containing Ni with Co, Fe and/or Cr. We show that atomic segregation of Ni takes place already at very early stages of radiation damage in the 2–4 element SP-CSAs containing Fe or Cr, well below 1 dpa. We arrive at this conclusion by following the evolution of positron annihilation signals as a function of irradiation dose in single crystal samples, complemented by molecular dynamics simulations in the same model systems for high entropy alloys (HEAs). This manifestation of short-range order calls attention to composition fluctuations at the atomic level in irradiated HEAs. Ion irradiation may induce short-range order in certain alloys due to chemically biased elemental diffusion. The work highlights the necessity of updating the assumption of a totally random arrangement in the irradiated alloys, even though the alloys before irradiation have random arrangements of different chemical elements.

ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P69-77
4. Twin boundary sliding in single crystalline Cu and Al nanowires
單晶Cu和Al納米線中的孿晶界滑移
Sung-Hoon Kim, Jun-Hyoung Park, Hong-Kyu Kim, Jae-Pyoung Ahn, Dong-Mok Whang, Jae-Chul Lee?
J.-C. Lee:jclee001@korea.ac.kr
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.028
摘要
孿晶界滑移(TBS)是納米晶金屬中一種常見的變形模式,通常發生在孿晶區的多個位置(包括孿晶界),當通過孿晶產生的附加變形相對有限情況下。與大晶粒體系中公認的位錯滑移和頸縮變形過程不同,目前用于解釋孿晶界滑移的理論常常是富有爭議的,而且還有很多懸而未決的問題。在本研究中,我們基于位錯和層錯能量的相關理論,通過對形成分位錯的相對趨勢進行定量分析,提出了一種能夠預測變形路徑的參數。這一參數同時考慮了靜態/外部特征的影響,如層錯能(SFE)、晶體尺寸和取向,以及由材料的各種層錯能量所表征的動態結構狀態。我們首先使用在各種尺寸和取向下都具有較低層錯能的銅合金來對這一參數進行了驗證。為了確認該因子是否可以推廣到高層錯能的晶體中,我們對鋁納米線進行了微拉伸試驗和分子動力學模擬。研究表明,即使各種層錯能不同的金屬,我們所提出的參數都會產生自洽的結果。這些結果可以為負載納米結構的設計提供指導。
英文摘要
Twin boundary sliding (TBS) is a deformation mode that is typically observed in nanocrystalline metals and usually occurs at multiple locations in the twinned region, including twin boundaries, of a crystal in a situation in which additional deformation via twinning is limited. Unlike the well-established dislocation slip and necking deformation process that occurs in large crystals, recent theories that explain TBS are often controversial, and much remains unsettled. Herein, we develop a factor that enables the prediction of deformation pathways by quantitatively analyzing the relative tendency for the formation of partial dislocations based on the dislocation and fault energy theories. The developed factor considers the effects of static/extrinsic features, such as the stacking fault energy (SFE) as well as the crystal size and orientation, and dynamic structural states characterized by the various fault energies of a material. The factor is initially validated using a Cu crystal exhibiting low SFE for various orientations and sizes. To determine whether the proposed factor can be generically extended to crystals with high SFE, we perform micro-mechanical tensile tests and molecular dynamics simulations on Al nanowires. The developed factor produces self-consistent results even for metals exhibiting different SFE values. The observations can be used as a guideline to design nanoscale structures for load-carrying applications.

ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P101-121
5. Effect of ageing on the microstructural evolution in a new design of maraging steels with carbon
時效過程對一種新型含碳馬氏體時效鋼組織演變的影響
Peng Gong, Bradley P Wynne, Alexander J Knowles, Andrej Turk, Le Ma, Enrique I Galindo-Nava, W Mark Rainforth?
W.M. Rainforth:m.rainforth@sheffield.ac.uk
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.029
摘要
本文描述了一種基于碳化物析出的新型馬氏體時效鋼。我們設計了兩種合金成分,分別是Fe-10Mn-0.25C-2Cr-1Mo wt% (2CrMo) 和Fe-10Mn-0.25C-1Cr-2Mo wt% (Cr2Mo)。我們之所以設計這樣的成分是為了同時實現高強度和高延伸率,這兩者分別是通過富Cr和富Mo碳化物的協同析出和富Mn的逆轉變奧氏體實現的。合金通過標準的熔煉、鑄造和熱加工工藝生產。合金經過870℃固溶處理后淬火,得到全馬氏體組織,隨后在510℃下時效不同時間。我們詳細研究了合金組織和拉伸性能隨時效時間的變化規律。觀察到組織中存在大量微米和納米級的錳偏析,這些偏析決定了合金局部的Ac3溫度。兩種合金中均發生了奧氏體逆轉變,并在16h達到峰值。在2CrMo合金中,由于Ac3溫度低于時效溫度,因此逆轉變奧氏體形貌成等軸狀;而在Cr2Mo合金中,Ac3溫度與510℃時效溫度接近,奧氏體呈針狀。此外,在Cr2Mo中,馬氏體板條邊界的錳偏析進一步促進了針狀奧氏體的生長。2CrMo鋼在加熱到時效溫度的過程中出現了碳化物析出(M3C和M7C3),但這些碳化物隨著時效時間的延長逐漸溶解。與之不同的事,Cr2Mo合金中,碳化物析出(M7C3和M2C)在時效過程中發生,且其體積分數隨時效時間的增加而增加。在這兩種合金中都觀察到了TRIP效應,但Cr2Mo合金中的更顯著。時效16小時后的復雜組織實現了1.3 GPa,18%的優異強度和延伸率組合。我們使用了物理模型分別估計了馬氏體、析出和TRIP效應對強度的獨立貢獻,證實了時效16h后,組織中的馬氏體雖然略微過度時效,但強度仍然很高;與此同時,30%的逆轉變奧氏體提供了顯著的加工硬化。這樣良好的組織配比最終導致了材料優異的強度-塑性耦合。
英文摘要
A new maraging steel, based on carbide precipitation, is described. Two alloys were designed namely Fe-10Mn-0.25C-2Cr-1Mo wt% (2CrMo) and Fe-10Mn-0.25C-1Cr-2Mo wt% (Cr2Mo). These compositions were chosen to achieve ultra-high strength and high tensile elongation; the former and latter are promoted through the simulatenous precipitation of Cr- and Mo-rich carbides and Mn-rich reverted austenite. The alloys were manufactured through the standard melting, casting and hot working route. Following a solution treatment at 870 °C and quench, which gave a fully martensitic structure, the alloys were aged for various times at 510 °C. The microstructure and tensile properties were investigated in detail as a function of ageing time. The microstructure observed was dominated by micron scale and nanometre scale Mn segregation which determined the local Ac3 temperature. Austenite reversion occurred in both alloys, peaking at 16 h in both cases. In the 2CrMo alloy, the reverted austenite was mainly globular in morphology due the Ac3 temperature being lower than the ageing temperature, but was acicular in the Cr2Mo with Ac3 similar to the ageing temperature of 510 °C. Moreover, acicular austenite was promoted by Mn segregation at martensite lath boundaries in Cr2Mo. In the 2CrMo steel, carbide precipitation (M3C and M7C3) occurred during heating to the ageing temperature, but the carbides gradually dissolved with further ageing. In contrast, in the Cr2Mo alloy, precipitation of carbides (M7C3 and M2C) occurred during ageing, the volume fraction of which increased with ageing time. In both alloys a TRIP effect was observed, but the extent of this was greater for the Cr2Mo alloy. The complex microstructure obtained after 16 h led to an excellent combination of strength of 1.3 GPa and elongation of 18%. Physics-based models for the microstructure in martensite, precipitation kinetics, as well as for TRIP in austenite were employed to explain and predict the individual strengthtening contributions of the microstructure to the total strength, confirming that the maximum strength-elongation relationship found after 16 h is due to an optimal combination of a slightly overaged - but still strong- martensite and 30% of reverted austenite, for increased work hardening and ductility.

ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P122-133
6. Oxygen solutes induced anomalous hardening, toughening and embrittlement in body-centered cubic vanadium
氧溶質引起的體心立方釩異常硬化和脆化
Jian Zhang, Wei-Zhong Han?
W.-Z. Han: wzhanxjtu@mail.xjtu.edu.cn,西安交通大學
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.023
摘要
釩對微量的間隙氧原子十分敏感,這些到氧原子可能引起合金顯著的硬化和脆化。在本研究中,我們利用氧參與形成V的固溶體,以求揭示氧溶質原子導致V合金硬化的機理。隨著氧溶質原子的不斷增加,V樣品的斷裂模式從韌性斷裂逐漸轉變為韌性斷裂和解理斷裂的混合,直至完全的穿晶斷裂。研究發現,在應變樣品中產生了大量的位錯。氧溶質降低了螺位錯的遷移率,同時促進了位錯的交叉滑移。除了氧元素的固溶強化以外,高密度的氧原子-空位復合體在硬化中也起到了關鍵作用。環狀位錯殘部的大量存在為這些復合體的形成提供了直接證據。大量的氧原子-空位復合物捕獲位錯、促進交叉滑移并且促進位錯存儲,從而在1at%氧的情況下在釩中產生了優異的強化、應變硬化和延展性組合。而一旦超過臨界氧濃度(>1.6%),極高密度的氧-空位復合物將導致釩出現災難性的脆性破壞。我們的這些發現為利用氧溶質設計高性能難熔金屬提供了有益的見解。
英文摘要
Vanadium (V) is sensitive to minute quantity of oxygen interstitials, which induce pronounced hardening and embrittlement. Here, we utilize oxygen to synthesize V solid solutions in order to reveal the mechanism of oxygen solutes induced hardening. With increasing of oxygen solute concentrations, the fracture modes of V samples transform from dimple, to a mixture of dimple and cleavage, and to a fully transgranular cleavage. High density of dislocations and dislocation debris are produced in strained samples. The mobility of screw dislocations is reduced and the dislocation cross-slip events are promoted by oxygen solutes. In addition to oxygen solution hardening, the generation of high density of oxygen-vacancy complexes plays a dominant role in the strengthening. High quantity of loop-shaped dislocation debris are direct evidence for the formation of oxygen-vacancy complexes. Profuse oxygen-vacancy complexes trap dislocations, promote cross-slips and assist dislocation storage, thus give rise to a superior combination of strengthening, strain hardening, and ductility in V with 1.0 at% of oxygen. Once beyond a critical oxygen concentration (>1.6 at%), V shows catastrophic brittle failure due to the exceptional high density of oxygen-vacancy complexes. These findings provide insight to design high performance refractory metals utilizing oxygen solutes.

ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P133-143
7. Enhanced radiation tolerance of the Ni-Co-Cr-Fe high-entropy alloy as revealed from primary damage
通過一次損傷揭示Ni-Co-Cr-Fe高熵合金的優異的抗輻照性能
Yeping Lin, Tengfei Yang, Lin Lang, Chang Shan, Huiqiu Deng?, Wangyu Hua, Fei Gao?
H. Deng: hqdeng@hnu.edu.cn,湖南大學
F. Gao:gaofeium@umich.edu
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.027
摘要
高熵合金由于具有良好的抗輻照性能而在核材料領域受到廣泛關注。本研究通過分子動力學模擬研究了輻照缺陷的產生和演化,通過與Ni塊體的比較,加深了對其抗輻照機制的理解。我們對能量在10 ~ 50 keV范圍內的初級撞擊原子(PKA)引起的離位級聯進行了模擬,以了解高熵合金的抗輻照能力。總的來說,與Ni相比,高熵合金在熱度尖峰相中產生的移位原子更多,但留存至級聯末端的缺陷更少。在兩種材料中,隨著PKA能量的增加,間隙團簇和空位團簇的大小或數量都增加,但在NiCoCrFe高熵合金中,它們的增加速度更慢。NiCoCrFe高熵合金中的延遲損傷積累是由以下兩種機制引起的高缺陷復合導致的。首先,熱峰的增強和高熵合金的低熱導率導致了缺陷復合效率的提高。此外,與Ni相比,NiCoCrFe 高熵合金中的間隙環結合能要小得多,從而導致了NiCoCrFe高熵合金中的延遲間隙團簇。
英文摘要
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have received much attention for the development of nuclear materials because of their excellent irradiation tolerance. In the present study, the generation and evolution of irradiation-induced defects in the NiCoCrFe HEA were investigated by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to understand the mechanisms of its irradiation tolerance compared with bulk Ni. The displacement cascades were simulated for the energies of primary knock-on atoms (PKA) ranging from 10 to 50 keV to understand the irradiation resistance in HEAs. In general, there are more displaced atoms produced in the thermal spike phase, but fewer defects survived at the end of the cascades in the NiCoCrFe alloy than in Ni. Both interstitial and vacancy clusters increase in size or number with increasing PKA energy in both materials, but they do so more slowly in the NiCoCrFe HEA. The delayed damage accumulations in the NiCoCrFe HEA are attributed to the high defect recombination caused by the following two mechanisms. First, the enhanced thermal spike and the low thermal conductivity of HEAs for heat dissipation result in the higher efficiency of defect recombination. Furthermore, the substantially small binding energies of interstitial loops in the NiCoCrFe HEA, as compared with those in Ni, are responsible for the delayed interstitial clustering in the NiCoCrFe HEA.

ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P144-153
8. Vacancy diffusion in multi-principal element alloys: The role of chemical disorder in the ordered lattice
多主元合金中的空位擴散:有序晶格中化學組元無序的影響
Spencer L. Thomas?, Srikanth Patala?
S.L. Thomas:slthom23@ncsu.edu
S. Patala:spatala@ncsu.edu
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.022
摘要
多主元合金(MPEAs)的許多優點,如耐腐蝕、高溫氧化和抗輻照等,都對空位擴散率高度敏感。與此同時,溶質間擴散也同樣由空位擴散控制。我們尚不清楚多主元合金是否真的穩定,抑或只是由于元素相互擴散非常緩慢而表現得相對穩定。由于多主元合金具有相當大的成分空間,這使得對其性能的優化成為一項格外艱巨的任務,必須借助理論和計算工具加以指導。對于擴散而言,這類工具依賴于我們對給定合金中的空位遷移障礙和這些障礙對空位擴散率的影響的理解。我們提出了一個復雜能量圖景下空位擴散的一般理論,并將其與多組元合金中空位擴散的蒙特卡洛動力學模擬相結合。通過在等原子比CoNiCrFeMn合金中的彈性能帶計算,得到了勢壘的統計分析結果。理論和模擬表明,固溶多組元合金中的空位擴散不一定是緩慢的,但在一定程度上可以調控,并且勢阱模型并不能充分解釋CoNiCrFeMn多組元合金中的緩慢擴散。研究結果還表明,任何試圖如實反映擴散相關現象的模型都必須考慮能量圖景的全部性質,而不僅僅是遷移障礙。
英文摘要
Many of the purported virtues of Multi-Principal Element Alloys (MPEAs), such as corrosion, hightemperature oxidation and irradiation resistance, are highly sensitive to vacancy diffusivity. Similarly, solute interdiffusion is governed by vacancy diffusion. It is also often unclear whether MPEAs are truly stable or effectively stabilized by slow interdiffusion. The considerable composition space afforded to these alloys makes optimizing for desired properties a daunting task; theoretical and computational tools are necessary to guide alloy development. For diffusion, such tools depend on both a knowledge of the vacancy migration barriers within a given alloy and an understanding of how these barriers influence vacancy diffusivity. We present a generalized theory of vacancy diffusion in rugged energy landscapes, paired with Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of MPEA vacancy diffusion. The barrier energy statistics are informed by nudged elastic band calculations in the equiatomic CoNiCrFeMn alloy. Theory and simulations show that vacancy diffusion in solid-solution MPEAs is not necessarily sluggish, but can potentially be tuned, and that trap models are an insufficient explanation for sluggish diffusion in the CoNiCrFeMn HEA. These results also show that any model that endeavors to faithfully represent diffusion-related phenomena must account for the full nature of the energy landscape, not just the migration barriers.

ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P168-174
9. Experimental evaluation of critical resolved shear stress for the first-order pyramidal c + a slip in commercially pure Ti by micropillar compression method
采用微柱壓縮實驗分析商用純鈦中一級錐體c + a滑移的臨界分切應力
Kyosuke Kishida?, Jim Geum Kim, Tadashige Nagae, Haruyuki Inui
K. Kishida: kishida.kyosuke.6w@kyoto-u.ac.jp
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.043
摘要
我們使用了單軸微柱壓縮試驗研究了常溫下商用純鈦單晶的塑性變形行為與晶體取向和試樣尺寸的關系。{10-11}錐體c+a 滑移和棱柱a滑移分別在微柱樣品的[0001] 和[2-1-10]方向被激活。而在塊體單晶材料中此前從未觀測到{10-11}錐體c+a 滑移作為壓縮實驗中的主要變形模式,我們觀測到的往往是{11-22}<11-2-3>的孿晶行為。{10-11}錐體c+a滑移和棱柱a滑移的CRSS值隨樣品尺寸減小而增大,遵循指數函數變化規律,指數系數分別為0.06和0.59。通過將棱柱a滑移的指數規律進行外推可以得到塊體{10-11}錐體c+a滑移的CRSS值大約為580-635MPa,這比其他任何室溫下變形模式的CRSS值都要高。
英文摘要
The plastic deformation behavior of commercially pure Ti single crystals has been investigated by uniaxial micropillar compression tests as a function of crystal orientation and specimen size at room temperature. {10-11}(first-order) pyramidal c+a slip and prism a slip are activated in micropillar specimens with the [0001] and [2-1-10] orientations, respectively. {10-11} pyramidal c+a slip has never been observed to operate as a major deformation mode in compression tests of ‘bulk’ single crystals at room temperature, in which {11-22}<11-2-3> twinning is usually observed. The CRSS values for {10-11} pyramidal c+a slip and prism a slip increase with the decrease in the specimen size, following an inverse power-law relationship with a power-law exponent of about 0.06 and 0.59, respectively. The extrapolation of the inverse power law relationship up to the ‘bulk’ specimen size estimated from the CRSS values of prism a slip gives the ‘bulk’ CRSS value for {10-11} pyramidal c+a slip to be 580-635 MPa, which is by far higher than those for any other deformation modes operative at room temperature.

ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P175-190
10. He ion irradiation response of a gradient T91 steel
梯度T91鋼的He離子輻照響應
Zhongxia Shang?, Jie Ding, Cuncai Fan, Di Chen, Jin Li, Yifan Zhang, Yongqiang Wang, Haiyan Wang, Xinghang Zhang?
Z. Shang: shang19@purdue.edu
X. Zhang: xzhang98@purdue.edu
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.019
摘要
具有梯度組織的金屬材料往往會表現優異的力學性能。然而,梯度結構材料的輻照響應卻鮮有研究。在本研究中,我們對經過表面嚴重塑性變形的梯度T91鋼進行了約4.5 dpa, 10at% He注入的室溫He離子輻照實驗。研究結果表明,與粗晶鐵素體T91相比,帶有納米晶層的梯度T91的抗輻照能力更強,具體表現為較少的氦泡腫脹和輻照硬化。此外,氦泡沿晶界的分布情況與取向差密切相關,這表明非平衡晶界具有很強的存儲氦原子的能力。這些結果為核工業用抗輻照梯度鋼鐵材料的設計提供了有益的見解。
英文摘要
Metallic materials with a gradient microstructure usually exhibit excellent mechanical properties. However, the radiation response of gradient structural materials is less well understood. Here, room-temperature He ion irradiation up to ~4.5 dpa with ~10 at% He injection was performed on a gradient T91 steel processed by surface severe plastic deformation. In comparison to the coarse-grained ferritic T91, the gradient T91 with the nanocrystalline layers shows improved radiation tolerance in terms of less bubble swelling and radiation hardening. Additionally, bubble distribution along grain boundaries depends on misorientation angle suggesting a strong capacity of non-equilibrium grain boundaries in storing He atoms. The present study provides insight into the design of radiation tolerant gradient steels for nuclear industry applications.

ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P210-219
11. Intermixing of Fe and Cu on the atomic scale by high-pressure torsion as revealed by DC- and AC-SQUID susceptometry and atom probe tomography
通過磁化率測量和原子探針技術揭示高壓扭轉后鐵和銅在原子尺度上的混合
Martin Stückler?, Heinz Krenn, Philipp Kürnsteiner, Baptiste Gault, Frédéric De Geuser, Lukas Weissitsch, Stefan Wurster, Reinhard Pippan, Andrea Bachmaier
M. Stückler: martin.stueckler@oeaw.ac.at
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.035
摘要
本工作研究了高壓扭轉進行Cu-14Fe (wt.%)過飽和固溶體制備的能力。微觀組織表征表明,我們獲得了一種穩定的納米晶狀態。我們使用原子探針對形變后的樣品進行了分析,發現固溶度提高并且組織內含有富Fe粒子。變形態樣品的磁滯回線表明合金中的長程相互作用被抑制;而當樣品在500℃退火后,樣品的磁滯回線演化成為常規塊狀樣品狀態。形變狀態下的AC磁化率測量結果顯示,樣品中存在超順磁阻塞峰和磁受挫相,而后者的轉變規律遵循Almeida-Thouless線,這與原子探針對微觀組織的研究結果一致。AC磁化率測量表明,在250℃退火后,這種受挫態消失。
英文摘要
The capability of high-pressure torsion on the preparation of supersaturated solid solutions, consisting of Cu-14Fe (wt.%), is studied. From microstructural investigations a steady state is obtained with nanocrystalline grains. The as-deformed state is analyzed with atom probe tomography, revealing an enhanced solubility and the presence of Fe-rich particles. The DC-hysteresis loop shows suppressed long range interactions in the as-deformed state and evolves towards a typical bulk hysteresis loop when annealed at 500℃. AC-susceptometry measurements of the as-deformed state reveal the presence of a superparamagnetic blocking peak, as well as a magnetic frustrated phase, whereas the transition of the latter follows the Almeida-Thouless line, coinciding with the microstructural investigations by atom probe tomography. AC-susceptometry shows that the frustrated state vanishes for annealing at 250℃.

ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P220-230
12. Phenomenon of ultra-fast tracer diffusion of Co in HCP high entropy alloys
HCP高熵合金中Co示蹤劑的超快擴散
Mayur Vaidya, Sandipan Sen?, Xi Zhang, Lena Frommeyer, ?ukasz Rogal, S. Sankaran, Blazej Grabowski, Gerhard Wilde, Sergiy V. Divinski
S.Sen:ssen@wwu.de
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.025
摘要
本工作采用實驗性的第一性原理計算方法研究了六方高熵合金中的溶質擴散問題。研究選取放射性同位素57Co對一系列HCP合金中的擴散行為進行探測,包括等原子比的二元HfZr和三元HfTiZr合金,以及五元的Al5Sc20Hf25Ti25Zr25 at%和Al15Sc10Hf25Ti25Zr25 at%高熵合金。研究發現Co在這些合金中的擴散具有強烈的各向異性和極快的速度(比自擴散快5到10個數量級),這可以用游離擴散機制來解釋。在第一性原理的計算的框架下,我們分析了Co在HCP高熵合金中超快速擴散的起源和多元素環境對其間隙位置的影響。研究結果表明,溶質原子擴散可以作為一種有力工具,用以探究在極短時間尺度上HCP多主元合金中與基體原子躍遷速率有關的潛在短程有序狀態。
英文摘要
An experimental-ab initio approach is applied to investigate solute diffusion in hexagonal high-entropy alloys. The radioisotope 57Co is selected to probe the diffusion behaviour in a series of HCP alloys, from equiatomic binary (HfZr) and ternary (HfTiZr) to quinary Al5Sc20Hf25Ti25Zr25 at.% and Al15Sc10Hf25Ti25Zr25 at.% high-entropy alloys. Diffusion of Co in the present alloys is found to be strongly anisotropic and exceptionally fast (by 5 to 10 orders of magnitude faster than self-diffusion) which can be explained in terms of a dissociative diffusion mechanism. The origin of ultra-fast diffusion of Co in the given HCP high-entropy alloys and the impact of the multi-element environment on the interstitial positions are analyzed in the framework of ab initio computations. Our results show that solute diffusion can be used as a tool to probe potential short range order in HCP multi-principal element alloys on very short time scales with respect to the jump rates of matrix atoms.

ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P252-260
13. Cyclic strain amplitude-dependent fatigue mechanism of gradient nanograined Cu
梯度納米銅中受應變幅度影響的周期疲勞機理
Q.S. Pan, J.Z. Long, L.J. Jing, N.R. Tao, L. Lu?
L. Lu: llu@imr.ac.cn,沈陽金屬所
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.047
摘要
梯度納米Cu在應力控制的高周疲勞和應變控制的低周疲勞實驗中所表現出的不同晶粒粗化現象(即反常粗化和均勻粗化)已被廣泛觀測。為了全面了解梯度納米晶組織的內在疲勞機理,我們對寬應變范圍的應變控制疲勞試驗中,梯度納米Cu的高周和低周疲勞行為進行了詳細研究。我們觀察到了梯度納米Cu從小應變下的異常粗化到大應變下均勻粗化的轉變。組織結構分析表明,在循環載荷作用下,晶粒的異常或正常粗化行為與納米梯度層(局域的或非局域的)中塑性應變的空間分布密切相關。這種獨特的取決于應變幅度的疲勞行為是梯度納米結構特有的,它與均勻結構金屬在循環載荷作用下的常規應變集中機制有根本性的不同。
英文摘要
Different grain coarsening behaviors (i.e. abnormal and homogeneous) are prevalently observed in gradient nanograined (GNG) Cu under stress controlled high-cycle and strain controlled low-cycle fatigue tests, respectively. In this paper, to comprehensively understand the intrinsic fatigue mechanism of gradient nanograined structures, both high and low cycle fatigue behaviors of GNG Cu are investigated under strain-controlled fatigue tests with a wide strain amplitude ranges. Cyclic behavior transition from abnormal grain coarsening at small strain amplitude to homogeneous grain coarsening at large strain amplitude is observed in GNG Cu. Microstructural analysis reveals that the grain coarsening behavior in either abnormal or normal (homogeneous) mode is closely related to the spatial distribution of the cyclic plastic strain in the GNG layer (localized or delocalized) under cyclic loading. Such unique cyclic strain aplitude-dependent fatigue behavior is inherent to the gradient nanostructure, which fundamentally differs from the conventional strain localizing mechanism in metals with homogeneous structures under cyclic loading.

ACTA Vol. 196, 1 Sept. 2020, P280-294
14. Determination of twinning path from broken symmetry: A revisit to deformation twinning in bcc metals
基于對稱性破損確定孿晶路徑: 對BCC金屬中形變孿晶機制的新探索
Yipeng Gao?, Yongfeng Zhang, Yunzhi Wang
Y. Gao: yipeng.gao@inl.gov
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.031
摘要
晶體中的形變孿晶是塑性變形過程中的主要應變載體之一,對金屬材料的力學性能起著至關重要的作用。理解形變孿晶機制的關鍵問題之一是確定變形路徑,這對孿晶應變和臨界剪切應力的計算至關重要。本文為形變孿晶的研究提供了一個新的視角,通過系統研究對稱性破碎與變形路徑之間的關系,嘗試為利用群論和圖論識別與孿晶相關的對稱性破碎和預測孿晶模式奠定理論基礎。從物理學的角度來看,形變孿晶可以被看作是一種由對稱破碎引起的拓撲缺陷。我們以BCC晶體為例,闡明了沿著孿晶路徑應變空間中的各種高對稱性狀態(應變可以通過晶格畸變計算得到),如FCC、HCP或正交態,是如何導致不同特征的孿晶模式的。我們的預測不僅與經典理論以及BCC合金中的實驗觀察一致,而且揭示了最近被觀測到的高指數孿晶模式(如{5 8 11}和{3 9 10})的起源。這項工作為通過沿孿晶路徑的對稱性破碎分析形變孿晶提供了新的途徑。
英文摘要
Deformation twinning in crystals is one of the major strain carrier during plastic deformation, which plays a critical role in determining the mechanical properties of metals and alloys. One of the key issues to understand deformation twinning mechanisms is the determination of deformation path, which is critical for the calculations of twinning strain and critical shear stress. This work provides a new perspective on deformation twinning by systematically investigating the relationship between symmetry breaking and deformation path, with the purpose of establishing a theoretical foundation to identify the broken symmetries associated with twinning and predicting the twinning modes using group theory and graph theory. From a physical point of view, deformation twins can be regarded as one type of the so called topological defects that are induced by symmetry-breaking. Taking BCC crystals as an example, we demonstrate how the presence of intermediate high symmetry states in the deformation strain space (strain calculated through lattice distortion) along the twinning path, such as FCC, HCP or orthorhombic state, can lead to different characteristic twinning modes. Our predictions not only agree well with classical theoretical analyses and experimental observations in BCC metals and alloys, but also reveal the origin of recently observed high-index twinning modes (such as {5 8 11} and {3 9 10} twins). This work may open a new avenue for analyzing deformation twinning through the symmetry breaking along twinning pathways.

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