Electrometallurgy Today, 2020, №04



2020 №04 (02)

DOI of Article 10.37434/sem2020.04.03

2020 №04 (04)

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Electrometallurgy Today (Sovremennaya Elektrometallurgiya), 2020, #4, 16-22 pages

Effect of the structure of vacuum condensates of high entropy alloys of Cr–Fe–Co–Ni–Cu system on their mechanical properties

A.I. Ustinov¹, V.S. Skorodzievskii², S.A. Demchenkov¹, S.S. Polishchuk², T.V. Melnichenko¹

¹E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute of the NAS of Ukraine. 11 Kazymyr Malevych Str., 03150, Kyiv, Ukraine. E-mail: office@paton.kiev.ua
²G.V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics of the NAS of Ukraine. 36 Acad. Vernadsky Blvd., Kyiv, 03142, Ukraine. E-mail: metall@imp.kiev.ua

Abstract
In this work mechanical and dissipative properties of vacuum condensates of high-entropy alloys (HEAs) of Cr–Fe–Co–Ni–Cu system produced by high-rate electron beam vapor deposition in a vacuum are investigated, depending on their structural-phase state. It is shown that a transition from a single-phase (FCC) structure of the condensate to the dual-FCC phase state (FCC1 + FCC2) occurs in the temperature range of 923…1025 K. It was found that the mechanical properties of CrFeCoNiCu vacuum condensates produced by EBPVD method, significantly depend on their structural and phase states. Two-phase condensates exhibit a lower microhardness (3.0 GPa) and higher plasticity (δA = 0.90) against those of single-phase condensates (5.5 GPa and δA = 0.83) due to the presence of plastic Cu-rich precipitates at grain boundaries of CrFeCoNiCu0.5 solid solution. It is shown that transition from the single-phase FCC structure to a two-phase structure (FCC1 + FCC2) in CrFeCoNiCu coatings leads to increase of the damping capacity by 1.5…1.7 times in the temperature range of 293…693 K, and by 3…4 times, compared with an uncoated sample. Ref. 20, Tabl. 2, Fig. 8.
Keywords: high-entropy alloys; electron beam deposition; vacuum condensates; phase composition; mechanical properties; microhardness; Young’s modulus; damping capacity

Received 21.10.2020

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