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In this study, nanoindentation tests with continuous stiffness measurement technique were measured to investigate the deformation behavior of a high-entropy alloy AlCoCrFeNi under different indentation strain rates at room temperature. Results suggest that the creep behavior exhibits remarkable strain rate dependence. In-situ scanning images showed a conspicuous pileup around the indents, indicating that an extremely localized plastic deformation occurred during the nanoindentation. Under different strain rates, elastic modulus basically remains unchanged, while the hardness decreases with increasing indentation depth due to the indentation size effect. Furthermore, the modulus and hardness of AlCoCrFeNi HEAs are greater than that of the Al x CoCrFeNi (x = 0.3,0.5) at the strain rate of 0.2 s−1 due to its higher negative enthalpy of mixing related to the atomic binding force, and the solid solution strengthening induced by the lattice distortion, respectively.
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J.W.Q. would like to acknowledge the financial support of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51371122), the Program for the Innovative Talents of Higher Learning Institutions of Shanxi (2013), and the Youth Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province, China (No. 2015021005). H.J.Y. would like to acknowledge the financial support from State Key Lab of Advanced Metals and Materials (No. 2013-Z03), and the Youth Science Foundation of Shanxi Province, China (No. 2014021017-3). Z.H.W. would like to acknowledge the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11390362), the Top Young Academic Leaders of Shanxi and the Outstanding Innovative Teams of Higher Learning Institutions of Shanxi. S.G.M would like to acknowledge the Project (No. 2015021006) supported by Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi. The financial contributions were gratefully acknowledged. Y.Z gratefully appreciate the financial supports from the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 2009AA03Z113) and the National Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51471025 and 51210105006), 111 Project (B07003), and the Program for Changjiang Scholars and the Innovative Research Team of the University.
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Tian, L., Jiao, Z.M., Yuan, G.Z. et al. Effect of Strain Rate on Deformation Behavior of AlCoCrFeNi High-Entropy Alloy by Nanoindentation. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 25, 2255–2260 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-016-2082-8
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