Effect of Deformation and Annealing Treatment on Microstructure Evolution of Fe47Mn30Co10Cr10B3 Dual-Phase High-Entropy Alloy
LIU Yi1, TU Jian1,2(), YANG Weihua1, YIN Ruisen3, TAN Li1, HUANG Can1, ZHOU Zhiming1,2
1 College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China 2 Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Institutions of Higher Education for Mould Technology, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China 3 College of Aerospace Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
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LIU Yi, TU Jian, YANG Weihua, YIN Ruisen, TAN Li, HUANG Can, ZHOU Zhiming. Effect of Deformation and Annealing Treatment on Microstructure Evolution of Fe47Mn30Co10Cr10B3 Dual-Phase High-Entropy Alloy. Acta Metall Sin, 2020, 56(12): 1569-1580.
In recent years, non-equiatomic high-entropy alloy (HEA) has been proposed to explore the flexibility of its design rule, avoiding the strength-ductility tradeoff. For further progress, non-equiatomic HEAs doped with interstitial atoms are developed. Boron, an effective dopant in metallurgy, has been used due to the beneficial compositional effects on the interfaces of metallic materials. In this work, the effects of deformation and annealing treatments on the microstructural evolution of Fe47Mn30Co10Cr10B3 dual-phase HEAs were investigated via electron channeling contrast imaging (ECCI) and EBSD. The results show that there are three stages in the deformation mechanism with an increase in the deformation degree, which include the dominant dislocation slip in the fcc phase, joint deformation of the transformation-induced plasticity and dislocation slip, and activation of dislocation slip in the hcp phase. With an increase in the annealing holding time, the partial recrystallization transformed to complete recrystallization. Further, particles located in the grain boundary can effectively restrain grain growth, and in turn, exhibit the bimodal grain size. The amount of annealing twinning variants is influenced by the fcc grain orientation: grains with <101> orientation are prone to forming multiple twinning variants, whereas, grains with <111> and <100> orientations are prone to forming a single twinning variant. The amount of annealing twinning variants also affected the morphological characteristics of the single hcp variant; the absence of annealing twinning variant is ascribed to the formation of blocky hcp phases and the single annealing twinning variant is attributed to the formation of laminate hcp phase. Moreover, the number of hcp variants was affected by the fcc grain sizes; large-sized grains facilitated the formation of multiple hcp variants, whereas, small-sized grains facilitated the formation of the single hcp variant.
Fund: Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission(KJQN201801139);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project(2018M632250);Graduate Student Innovation Program of Chongqing University of Technology(ycx20192040)
Fig.1 Pseudo binary phase diagram of Fe50-xMn30Co10Cr10Bx (x=0~5) high entropy alloy (HEA) (a), and fractions of stable phases as a function of temperature for x=0 (b) and x=3 (c) HEA
Fig.2 SEM images of microstructures of as-cast Fe47Mn30Co10Cr10B3 HEA (a~c), and EDS maps of the square region in Fig.2b (d~h)
Location
Fe
Mn
Co
Cr
B
1
17.44
24.46
1.34
47.91
8.85
2
47.06
27.34
9.80
10.62
5.18
Table 1 EDS results of the second phase particles and the matrix phase in Fig.2c
Fig.3 XRD spectrum of as-cast Fe47Mn30Co10Cr10B3 HEA
Fig.4 Microstructure evolutions of Fe47Mn30Co10Cr10B3 HEA with deformations of 10% (a1~a4), 20% (b1~b4) and 50% (c1~c4) (MB—microband, KB—kink band, LB—lamellar boundary)
Fig.5 EBSD maps of Fe47Mn30Co10Cr10B3 HEA with deformations of 10% (a1~a3), 20% (b1~b3) and 50% (c1~c3)
Fig.6 Microstructures of deformed Fe47Mn30Co10Cr10B3 HEA after different annealing treatments (DM—deformed microstructure, ITB—incoherent twin boundary, CTB—coherent twin boundary)
Fig.7 IPF maps (a1~e1), phase maps (a2~e2) and grain boundary maps (a3~e3) of Fe47Mn30Co10Cr10B3 (a1~d3) and Fe50Mn30Co10Cr10 (e1~e3) HEA after different annealing treatments
Fig.8 Analysis of twinning variants in deformed 50% Fe47Mn30Co10Cr10B3 HEA under annealing at 1000 ℃ for 1 min (a1~a4), 5 min (b1~b4) and 30 min (c1~c4) (Red circles—the activated variant of annealing twins; M—the fcc matrix)
Fig.9 Analyses of thermal-induced hcp variants in Fe47Mn30Co10Cr10B3 HEA under annealing at 1000 ℃ for 5 min (a1~a6) and 30 min (b1~b6) (black triangle—the activated variant of hcp; red circle—the activated variant of annealing twins)
Fig.10 Schematics showing microstructure evolution of Fe47Mn30Co10Cr10B3 HEA after deformation and annealing (a~h)
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