A review on mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering of refractory high-entropy alloys: Challenges, microstructures, and mechanical behavior

Refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) are promising candidates for those applications requiring of strong materials at high temperatures with elevated thermal stability and excellent oxidation, irradiation, and corrosion resistance. Particularly, RHEAs synthesized using mechanical alloying (MA) fol...

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Autores: Martin Saint-Laurence, Pablo|||0000-0001-6022-5402, Aguilar Ramírez, Claudio Eduardo, Cabrera Marrero, José M.|||0000-0001-8417-1736
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/409397
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/409397
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2024.03.205
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Materials--Mechanical properties
High-entropy alloys
Mechanical properties
Powder metallurgy
Spark plasma sintering
Mechanical alloying
Materials--Propietats mecàniques
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria dels materials
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Sumario:Refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) are promising candidates for those applications requiring of strong materials at high temperatures with elevated thermal stability and excellent oxidation, irradiation, and corrosion resistance. Particularly, RHEAs synthesized using mechanical alloying (MA) followed by spark plasma sintering (SPS) has proven to be a successful path to produce stronger alloys than those produced by casting techniques. This superior behavior, at both room and high temperature, can be attributed to the microstructural features resultant from this powder metallurgy route, that include the presence of homogeneously distributed non-metallic particles, fine- and ultrafine-grained microstructures, and higher content of interstitial solutes. Nevertheless, the powder metallurgy fabrication relies over a complex balance of several operational variables, and the process is no exempt of certain challenges, such as contamination or the presence of pores in the bulk parts. This review aims to cover all the peculiarities of the MA + SPS route, the resultant microstructures, their mechanical properties, and the strengthening and deformation mechanisms behind their superior performance, as well as a brief description of their oxidation resistance.