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The evolution of the microstructure and tensile properties of dual-phase Al0.6CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloys (HEAs) subjected to cold rolling was investigated. The homogenized Al0.6CoCrFeNi alloys consisted of face-centered-cubic and body-centered-cubic phases, presenting similar mechanical behavior as the as-cast state. The yield and tensile strengths of the alloys could be dramatically enhanced to ∼1205 MPa and ∼1318 MPa after 50% rolling reduction, respectively. A power-law relationship was discovered between the strain-hardening exponent and rolling reduction. The tensile strengths of this dual-phase HEA with different cold rolling treatments were predicted, mainly based on the Hollomon relationship, by the strain-hardening exponent, and showed good agreement with the experimental results.
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This work was financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province, China (Nos. 201901D111105 and 201901D111114), Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements Programs of Higher Education Institutions in Shanxi Province, China (2019), the Opening Project of the State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology (Beijing Institute of Technology) (No. KFJJ20-13M), the Graduate Science and Technology Innovation Fund Project of Shanxi Province, China (No. 2019BY044), and the State Key Lab of Advanced Metals and Materials of China (No. 2020-Z09).
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Zhang, M., Hou, Jx., Yang, Hj. et al. Tensile strength prediction of dual-phase Al0.6CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloys. Int J Miner Metall Mater 27, 1341–1346 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-020-2084-2
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