Implementation of EAM-potential formalism with Monte-Carlo simulation of 'order-order' relaxations in Ni3Al

P Oramus, Rafal Kozubski, Véronique Pierron-Bohnes, M C Cadeville, C Massobrio, Wolfgang Pfeiler

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    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 languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)453-458
    Number of pages6
    JournalDefect and Diffusion Forum
    Issue number194-199 PA
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2001

    Austrian Fields of Science 2012

    • 1030 Physics, Astronomy

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