High entropy alloys hold the key to studying dislocation avalanches in metals

For decades researchers have studied materials from structures to see why and how they fail. Before catastrophic failure, there are individual cracks or dislocations that form, which are signals that a structure may be weakening. While researchers have studied individual dislocations in the past, a team has now made it possible to understand how dislocations organize and react at nanoscale.

from Engineering and Construction News – ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181015141511.htm

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