Solid-solution hardening of a high-Entropy AlTiVCrNbMo alloy

Abstract

The nature of solid-solution hardening of high-entropy alloys is discussed using an equiatomic bcc AlTiVCrNbMo alloy as an example. The hardening of the alloy is found to be characterized by an increase in the temperature dependence of the component of the critical shear strength and by anomalously high athermic hardening due to the perpendicular slip plane of the Burgers vector component. A relatively simple expression is proposed to estimate the detected hardening ΔH(Δσ).