Abstract
The complex concentration alloys exhibit the excellent mechanical property due to the dual roles of their heterogeneous compositions and microstructures. However, the formation and motion of grain boundaries to significantly regulate the mechanical properties remain unknown at several microsecond and nanoscale in the complex concentration alloys. Here, we utilize a phase field crystal model to investigate the real-time grain boundary formation and motion in complex concentration alloys, specifically, in comparison to traditional alloys, using the example of AlCu alloys. Our findings reveal that the low concentration alloys exhibit segregation primarily at grain boundaries with minimal compositional fluctuations over a long period of grain growth, and the complex concentration alloys display a high concentration gradient within the grains to cause rapid grain rotation and merging in a short time frame. In the complex concentration alloys, the large component fluctuations not only cause the local lattice distortion to hinder dislocation movement during the deformation process, but also lead to the occurrence from dislocation locking to self-unlocking, which is beneficial to improve the strength and ductility. The present work provides a real-time atomic-scale understanding of grain boundary evolution using in situ atomic-resolution simulations.
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