| About this Abstract | 
   
    | Meeting | 2020 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition | 
   
    | Symposium | High Entropy Alloys VIII | 
   
    | Presentation Title | Effect of Solute-solute Interactions on Yield Strength in HEAs | 
   
    | Author(s) | William A. Curtin, Shankha  Nag | 
   
    | On-Site Speaker (Planned) | William A. Curtin | 
   
    | Abstract Scope | The strength of HEAs has been theoretically developed for random alloys by considering the interactions of individual solutes with a dislocation, and the collective fluctuations of the random solute field with the dislocation.  Such an analysis neglects direct solute-solute interactions, which likely exist because many HEAs are ultimately unstable at moderate temperatures and long times.  As a dislocation moves through the random solute field, solute-solute pairs are destroyed and formed.  The fluctuations in these processes leads to an additional contribution to the alloy strength, even in the random state.  A general statistical analysis of the fluctuations in dislocation energy due to pair-wise solute-solute interactions at different solute-solute distances is presented that is applicable to all concentrations and numbers of components.  These fluctuations enter the existing theory in a well-defined manner, enabling assessment of the strengthening as a function of the solute-solute interaction energies.  Examples in several systems are shown. | 
   
    | Proceedings Inclusion? | Planned: Supplemental Proceedings volume; Planned: Supplemental Proceedings volume |