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Mechanics, Additive Manufacturing, and Applications of High-Entropy Alloys

  • 1st Edition - November 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Muhammad Abubaker Khan, Mohamed Afifi, Jamieson Brechtl, Viswanathan S. Saji, Peter K. Liaw
  • Language: English

Mechanics, Additive Manufacturing, and Applications of High-Entropy Alloys provides key insight into the mechanics, additive manufacturing, and application of high entropy alloys… Read more

Description

Mechanics, Additive Manufacturing, and Applications of High-Entropy Alloys provides key insight into the mechanics, additive manufacturing, and application of high entropy alloys (HEAs). The book starts with chapters covering the dynamic mechanical and impact properties of these materials, theoretical models for strengthening HEAs and understanding various modes of failure, their low- and high-velocity impact behaviors, the design of lightweight HEAs, and much more. The book also features chapters outlining additive manufacturing techniques of HEAs, the effect of microstructures on their mechanical properties, and deformation mechanisms. The book concludes with chapters discussing the applications of HEAs, such as in lattice structures, high-energy absorption, nuclear energy, aerospace materials, as well as their recycling and sustainability.

Key features

  • Emphasizes the relationship between the structure/microstructure of high entropy alloys (HEAs) and their dynamic mechanical properties
  • Outlines techniques for adjusting the composition of HEAs based on certain applications
  • Covers the additive manufacturing of HEAs
  • Provides theoretical models for the dynamic-mechanical behaviors of HEAs

Readership

Researchers, scientists, engineers in structural materials, aerospace materials, additive manufacturing, and mechanical engineering

Table of contents

1. High Strain Dynamic Mechanical Properties of High Entropy Alloys

2.. Theoretical Models for the Dynamic-Mechanical Behaviors of High Entropy Alloys

3. Ballistic-Impact Properties of High Entropy Alloys

4. Ballistic-Impact Properties of Lightweight High Entropy Alloys

5. Additive Manufacturing for Dynamic-Mechanical and Ballistic-Impact Properties of High Entropy Alloys

6. The Effect of Fundamental and Associated Microstructures on Dynamic Mechanical Deformation in High Entropy Alloys

7. Microstructure and Dynamic Impact Properties of Additive Manufactured High Entropy Alloys

8. Dynamic-Mechanical Impact-Deformation Mechanisms of High Entropy Alloys

9. Ballistic-Impact Deformation Mechanisms of High Entropy Alloy Materials

10. Potential and Perspectives on Additive Manufacturing for Ballistic Impact Tests and Applications

11. Potential Applications of High Entropy Alloys as Armor Materials

12. Real-World Applications and Future Directions of High Entropy Alloys

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

MK

Muhammad Abubaker Khan

Dr. Muhammad Abubaker Khan received his Master of Engineering in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering from the College of Engineering and Emerging Technology, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan. He did his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He did his post-doctorate at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. Currently, he is working as an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology, Beijing. China. Dr Abubaker has over 60 publications in well-reputed peer-reviewed international journals. He is the author of several book and has been awarded various national and international honours and awards. He is currently a regular reviewer for over 10 journals. Dr Abubaker serves as guest editor for several journals. His research focuses on designing and developing lightweight high entropy alloys for aerospace applications.
Affiliations and expertise
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing , China

MA

Mohamed Afifi

Dr Mohamed Afifi received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Benha university- Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra-Cairo Egypt. He did his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, and was then a research fellow at Brunel University in the UK until July 2022. Dr Afifi is currently an assistant professor in the Mechanical engineering program at the faculty of engineering and applied sciences, Nile University, Giza, Egypt. His research focuses on designing and developing high mechanical performance lightweight materials.
Affiliations and expertise
Mechanical Engineering Program, School of Engineering and Applie and Sciences, Nile University, Giza, Egypt; Smart Engineering Systems Research Center (SESC), Nile University, Giza, Egypt

JB

Jamieson Brechtl

Dr. Jamieson Brechtl obtained his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering and his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2012. He later obtained his Ph.D. in Energy Science and Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2019. Currently, he works as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Multifunctional Equipment Integration Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research interests include plastic deformation, irradiation effects, nanoindentation, X-ray and neutron diffraction, microscopy, high-entropy alloys, and bulk-metallic glasses. He has authored or co-authored over thirty journal papers and presented at numerous engineering conferences. He was awarded the Chancellor’s Citation for Extraordinary Professional Promise from the University of Tennessee in 2019. He is also a current member of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS).
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

VS

Viswanathan S. Saji

Viswanathan S. Saji is an Associate Professor at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Advanced Materials, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. His current research interest lies in electrochemistry and energy materials.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Scientist II / Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Research Center for Advanced Materials, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia

PL

Peter K. Liaw

Dr. Peter K. Liaw graduated from the Chiayi High School, obtained his B.S. in Physics from the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, USA, in 1980. After working at the Westinghouse Research and Development (R&D) Center for thirteen years, he joined the faculty and becomes an Endowed Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, since March 1993. He has been working in the areas of fatigue, fracture, nondestructive evaluation, and life-prediction methodologies of structural alloys and composites. Since joining UT, his research interests include mechanical behavior, high-entropy alloys, bulk-metallic glasses, nondestructive evaluation, biomaterials, and processing of high-temperature alloys and ceramic-matrix composites and coatings with the kind and great help of his colleagues at UT and the nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as throughout the world. He has published over one-thousand journal papers, edited twenty books, and presented numerous plenary, keynote, and invited talks at various national and international conferences. He was awarded the Royal E. Cabell Fellowship at Northwestern University. He is a recipient of numerous “Outstanding Performance” awards from the Westinghouse R&D Center. He was the Chairman of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) “Mechanical Metallurgy” Committee, and the Chairman of the American Society for Metals (ASM) “Flow and Fracture” Committee. He has been the Chairman and Member of the TMS Award Committee on “Application to Practice, Educator, and Leadership Awards.” He is a Fellow of ASM, MRS, and TMS. He has been given the Outstanding Teacher Award, the Moses E. and Mayme Brooks Distinguished Professor Award, the Engineering Research Fellow Award, the National Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor Award, the L. R. Hesler Award, and the John Fisher Professorship at UT, and the TMS Distinguished Service Award. He has been the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Program, the Director of the NSF International Materials Institutes (IMI) Program, and the Director of the NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program at UT.
Affiliations and expertise
The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee, USA