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    • Figure 1.  Effect of Mn content on (a) RDFs and (b) atomic volume of CoCrFeNiMnx HEA at a temperature of 1 K.

    • Figure 2.  The elastic modulus of CoCrFeNiMnx HEA at a temperature of 1 K. (a) C11, (b) C12, (c) C44. The results of CoCrFeNiMn20 HEA are compared with those of Thürmer et al. in Ref. [22].

    • Figure 3.  Schematic diagram of the shock response of the HEA.

    • Figure 4.  Position–time (xt) diagrams for shock compression and release in the CoCrFeNiMn20 HEA sample at Up = 1200 m⋅s−1. (a) Shock pressure, (b) temperature, and (c) atomic volume.

    • Figure 5.  Shock profiles from MD simulations of CoCrFeNiMnx HEA at Up = 1200 m⋅s−1. Profiles correspond to 15 ps after the initial piston compression. (a) Shock pressure Pxx, (b) shear stress Psh, and (c) temperature T.

    • Figure 6.  Shock Hugoniot data (a) UpUs and (b) PV/V0 of CoCrFeNiMnx HEA. The dotted lines in panel (a) are linear fit to the MD results. The dotted lines in panel (b) are calculation Hugoniot curves using Eq. (3).

    • Figure 7.  The evolution of Pxx profiles for CoCrFeNi HEA sample at Up = 1200 m⋅s−1 during the spallation process.

    • Figure 8.  Free surface velocity histories of (a) CoCrFeNiMn20 HEA at various Up and (b) CoCrFeNiMnx HEA at Up = 1200 m⋅s−1.

    • Figure 9.  Shock-induced spall strength of CoCrFeNiMn HEAs versus strain rate from this work and references by Li et al.,[17] Thürmer et al.,[16,22] Zhang et al.,[13] and Xie et al.[32]

    • Figure 10.  Atomic fraction of FCC, BCC, HCP and disordered structures as a function of time: (a) Up = 800 m⋅s−1, (b) Up = 1200 m⋅s−1, (c) Up = 1600 m⋅s−1.

    • Figure 11.  Snapshots of shock-induced structural changes of CoCrFeNiMnx HEA. (a)–(c) Up = 800 m⋅s−1, (d)–(f) Up = 1200 m⋅s−1, (g)–(i) Up = 1600 m⋅s−1.

    • Figure 12.  Evolution of dislocation density as a function of time: (a) Up = 800 m⋅s−1, (b) Up = 1200 m⋅s−1, and (c) Up = 1600 m⋅s−1. (d) Dislocation distribution for different Up and Mn contents at 15 ps.