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Phase Stabilities in Some B2 Type Ordered Ni-Al-X Alloys
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2011
Abstract
The difference in developing of solubility lobe (s.l.) of B2 phase from the B2 NiAl point on each isothermal phase diagram of Ni-Al-Co, Ni-Al-Fe and Ni-Al-Mn is expected to be explained in terms of the pattern of free energy minimum (f.e.m.) line in the B2 phase region of these phase diagrams. To calculate such the f.e.m. line, a simple way has been proposed based on the tetrahedron approximation of the cluster variation method (CVM) making use of a relationship to correlate the conventional chemical potential of a species with some kinds of the CVM variables. The calculated results show that the f.e.m. line well reflects the solubility lobe developing of the B2 phase for both Ni-Al-Fe and Ni-Al-Co while some disagreement arises with Ni-Al-Mn. The results also show a theoretical possibility of transition from the high ordered state B2 to a low ordered one under a relatively low temperature regime so far as the present free energy model are concerned.
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