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Speaker: Professor Peter K. Liaw

Topic: Design of Advanced Light-weight High-entropy Alloys (HEAs)

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SpeakerProfessor Peter K. Liaw 

OrganizationDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA 

TopicDesign of Advanced Light-weight High-entropy Alloys (HEAs) 

DateAM 10:00 , 2018.7.26 

LocationRoom 228, College of Engineering 

Education 

Ph.D., Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, U.S.A. 

B.S., Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan 

Abstract

Traditional high-temperature materials, such as Ni-based or Co-based superalloys, are heavy and expensive, despite of their outstanding high-temperature performance. However, recent emergence of high-entropy alloys (HEAs) offers new avenues for exploring novel low-cost, great strength-to-weight ratio elevated-temperature structural materials. In the present study, advanced light-weight HEAs (LWHEAs) are designed based on the Al-Cr-Fe-Mn-Ti system, through the integrated high-throughput thermodynamic calculations, first-principles calculations, and experimental methods. These LWEHAs are composed of coherent nano-sized L21 and BCC two-phase structures. Due to the remarkable precipitation strengthening and solid-solution strengthening, the newly-designed light-weight HEAs possess attractive high-temperature strengths, which is comparable with those commercial superalloys.

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