Bulk and surface properties of liquid Al-Cr and Cr-Ni alloys
Abstract
The energetics of mixing and structural arrangement in liquid Al-Cr and Cr-Ni alloys has been analysed through the study of surface properties (surface tension and surface segregation), dynamic properties (chemical diffusion) and microscopic functions (concentration fluctuations in the long-wavelength limit and chemical short-range order parameter) in the framework of statistical mechanical theory in conjunction with quasi-lattice theory. The Al-Cr phase diagram exhibits the existence of different intermetallic compounds in the solid state, while that of Cr-Ni is a simple eutectic-type phase diagram at high temperatures and includes the low-temperature peritectoid reaction in the range near a CrNi2 composition. Accordingly, the mixing behaviour in Al-Cr and Cr-Ni alloy melts was studied using the complex formation model in the weak interaction approximation and by postulating Al8Cr5 and CrNi2 chemical complexes, respectively, as energetically favoured.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
- Pub Date:
- June 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0953-8984/23/23/235107
- Bibcode:
- 2011JPCM...23w5107N