The equiatomic multiprincipal CoCrFeCuNi and CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloys (HEAs) were consolidated via high pressure sintering (HPS) from the powders prepared by the mechanical alloying method (MA). The structures of the MA'ed CoCrFeCuNi and CoCrFeMnNi powders consisted of a face-centered-cubic (FCC) phase and a minority body-centered cubic (BCC) phase. After being consolidated by HPS at 5 GPa, the structure of both HEAs transformed to a single FCC phase. The grain sizes of the HPS'ed CoCrFeCuNi and CoCrFeMnNi HEAs were about 100 nm. The alloys keep the FCC structure until the pressure reaches 31 GPa. The hardness of the HPS'ed CoCrFeCuNi and CoCrFeMnNi HEAs were 494 Hv and 587 Hv,

High pressure torsion (HPT) under a pressure of 6 GPa through 1 and 2 revolutions have been used to follow the evolution of microstructures and properties in an Al 0.1 CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy (HEA). The plastic-deformation mechanisms of the HEA include dislocation slip at low strains and twinning at high strains at room temperature. The planar dislocation slip on the normal face-centered-cubic slip system, {111}<110>, and nanoscaled deformation twins with a thickness from several nanometers to 40 nm, accompanied with some secondary twins. The hardness of the Al 0.1 CoCrFeNi HEA increases from 135 Hv at hot-isostatic pressed (HIPed) state to about 482 Hv after HPT processing. The HEAs have a relatively high initial hardness and high work hardening, compared with traditional alloys. The creep resistance of the HEA processed by HPT was determined by a nanoindentation technique. The strain rate sensitivity, m, increases with the decreasing of grain size, for smaller

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