Nature Communications (May 2020)

Yield strength and misfit volumes of NiCoCr and implications for short-range-order

  • Binglun Yin,
  • Shuhei Yoshida,
  • Nobuhiro Tsuji,
  • W. A. Curtin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16083-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Chemical short-range order (SRO) NiCoCr has been proposed to account for its positive stacking fault energy and good mechanical properties. Here, a combination of theory and experiment shows that SRO is of negligible importance in NiCoCr processed by standard methods.