Table 1 Chemical compositions of the dendritic and interdendritic regions in the as-printed sample measured by EDS

From: Additive manufacturing of defect-free TiZrNbTa refractory high-entropy alloy with enhanced elastic isotropy via in-situ alloying of elemental powders

Region

Ti (at%)

Zr (at%)

Nb (at%)

Ta (at%)

Melt pool interior dendritic (bright)

\(26\pm 1\)

\(25\pm 1\)

\(26\pm 1\)

\(23\pm 1\)

Melt pool interior interdendritic (dark)

\(26\pm 1\)

\(26\pm 1\)

\(26\pm 1\)

\(23\pm 1\)

Melt pool interior overall

\(26\pm 1\)

\(26\pm 1\)

\(26\pm 1\)

\(23\pm 1\)

HAZ dendritic (bright)

\(22\pm 1\)

\(18\pm 2\)

\(24\pm 1\)

\(36\pm 2\)

HAZ inter-dendritic (dark)

\(27\pm 1\)

\(32\pm 2\)

\(20\pm 1\)

\(21\pm 2\)

HAZ overall

\(24\pm 1\)

\(26\pm 2\)

\(23\pm 1\)

\(27\pm 2\)