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The Effect of Scandium on the Phase Stability of Al3Nb AND Al3Zr

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

D. M. Nicholson ,
J. H. Schneibel ,
W. A. Shelton ,
P. Sterne  and
W. M. Temmerman
D. M. Nicholson
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6114
J. H. Schneibel
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6114
W. A. Shelton
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6114
P. Sterne
Affiliation:
Division of Chemical and Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550
W. M. Temmerman
Affiliation:
Daresbury Laboratory, England
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Abstract

A series of Al-25 (Nb,Sc), at.%, and Al-25 (Zr,Sc), at.%, alloy buttons were arccast in argon and homogenized for 2 h in vacuum at temperatures ranging from 1473 to 1573K. X-ray powder-diffraction indicated that almost all the Nb in Al-25 Nb (DO22) had to be replaced by Sc in order to obtain the Ll2 structure. In the case of Al3Zr much less Sc was required - the single phase Ll2 composition is approximately Al16Zr8Sc.

Recent calculations [1,2] show that once the tetragonality is properly included the phase stability of the trialuminide transition-metal binary alloys can be understood in terms of their electronic density of states. The dominating feature is a deep minimum in the density of states just below the major transition metal d-band peak. The exact position of the minimum changes with structure type (i.e., Ll2, DO22, or DO23, and with c/a). The alignment of the Fermi energy with the minimum appears to determine the equilibrium structure. The results of linearized-muffin-tin-orbital [3] (LMTO) electronic structure calculations are compared to the rigid band model and checked against the experimentally determined phase boundaries.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 186: Symposium I – Alloy Phase Stability and Design , 1990 , 229
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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