Project Leader:Anton Hohenwarter
Background
- Revelation of mechanisms controlling the ductility and crack growth resistance in such microstructures with respect to strength, ductility and toughness in these types of materials.
With these goals in mind the project should contribute to develop a methodology allowing the prediction of the required SPD production steps to generate a desired nanostructured bulk material or nanocomposite. As target groups for these new materials magnetic, electrical and even medical applications can be considered.
In order to persue this ambitious long-term vision different alloy systems were investigated ranging from very classical materials such as perlitic steels to novel materials such as high entropy alloys.
The lastest outcome of the project can be found here:
Publications
B. Schuh, R. Pippan, A. Hohenwarter, Tailoring bimodal grain size structures in nanocrystalline compositionally complex alloys to improve ductility, Mater. Sci. Eng. A, 748 (2019), 379-385.
DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2019.01.073 (link to full article)
B. Schuh, B. Völker, J. Todt, K. S. Kormout, Norbert Schell, A. Hohenwarter, Influence of Annealing on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of a Nanocrystalline CrCoNi Medium-Entropy Alloy, Materials 2018, 11(5), 662.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11050662 (link to full article)
B. Schuh, B. Völker, J. Todt, N. Schell, L. Perrière, J. Li, et al., Thermodynamic instability of a nanocrystalline, single-phase TiZrNbHfTa alloy and its impact on the mechanical properties, Acta Mater. 142 (2018) 201–212.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.09.035 (link to full article)
B. Schuh, B. Völker, V. Maier-Kiener, J. Todt, J. Li, A. Hohenwarter, Phase Decomposition of a Single-Phase AlTiVNb High-Entropy Alloy after Severe Plastic Deformation and Annealing, Adv. Eng. Mater. 19 (2017).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.201600674 (link to full article)
V. Maier-Kiener, B. Schuh, E. P. George, H. Clemens, A. Hohenwarter, Nanoindentation testing as a powerful screening tool for assessing phase stability of nanocrystalline high-entropy alloys, Mater. Design 115 (2017) 479-485.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2016.11.055 (link to pdf)
B. Völker, N. Jäger, M. Calin, M. Zehetbauer, J. Eckert, A. Hohenwarter, Influence of testing orientation on mechanical properties of Ti45Nb deformed by high pressure torsion, Mater. Design 114 (2017) 40-46.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2016.10.035 (link to pdf)
A. Hohenwarter, B. Völker, M.W. Kapp, Y. Li, S. Goto, D. Raabe, et al., Ultra-strong and damage tolerant metallic bulk materials: A lesson from nanostructured pearlitic steel wires, Sci. Rep. 6 (2016).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33228 (link to full article)
R. Pippan, A. Hohenwarter, The importance of fracture toughness
in ultrafine and nanocrystalline bulk materials, Mater. Res. Lett. (2016), 4:3, 127-136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2016.1166403 (link to full article)
B. Schuh, F. Mendez-Martin, B. Völker, E.P. George, H. Clemens, R. Pippan, et al., Mechanical properties, microstructure and thermal stability of a nanocrystalline CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy after severe plastic deformation, Acta Mater. 96 (2015) 258–268.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.06.025 (link to full article)
A. Hohenwarter, R. Pippan, Fracture and fracture toughness of nanopolycrystalline metals produced by severe plastic deformation Subject Areas :, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. A Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 373 (2015) Article number 20140366.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0366 (link to full article)
A. Hohenwarter, Incremental high pressure torsion as a novel severe plastic deformation process: Processing features and application to copper, Mater. Sci. Eng. A. 626 (2015) 80–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2014.12.041 (link to full article)
B. Schuh, Thermodynamic stability and mechanical properties of
nanocrystalline high-entropy alloys, PhD-thesis, Montanuniversität Leoben (link to pdf)