Abstract
The previous experimental results on "order-order" kinetics in ??-Ni3Al were interpreted and explained by means of Monte Carlo (MC) computer simulations. Potential energies of atoms in local configurations in L12 superlattice of Ni3Al used in standard Glauber algorithm for the probabilities of atomic jumps to nn vacancies were first evaluated as phenomenological parameters. The simulations reproduced the complex character of the experimental "order-order" relaxation curves and led to the elaboration of a model scenario for the creation and elimination of anti-site defects in the relaxing L12 superstructure. It was shown that the experimentally observed features of the "order-order" processes in Ni3Al follow from an interplay between short- and long-range ordering effects. The MC simulations are continued with atomic potentials calculated on-line within the "Embedded-Atom-Method" (EAM) applied to Ni3Al. The technique makes it possible to compare the adequacy of different MC algorithms neglecting and involving saddle-point energies. Œ 2001 Scitec Publications.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 453-458 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Defect and Diffusion Forum |
Issue number | 194-199 PA |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2001 |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 1030 Physics, Astronomy