Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Ultrahigh high-strain-rate superplasticity in a nanostructured high-entropy alloy

  • Nhung Thi-Cam Nguyen,
  • Peyman Asghari-Rad,
  • Praveen Sathiyamoorthi,
  • Alireza Zargaran,
  • Chong Soo Lee,
  • Hyoung Seop Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16601-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Superplasticity at high strain rates is challenging to achieve in high strength materials. Here, the authors show superplastic elongation in excess of 2000% in a high entropy alloy nanostructured by high-pressure torsion.