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The Role of Phase Stability in Ductile, Ordered B2 Intermetallics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

James R. Morris
Affiliation:
[email protected], Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Materials Science & Technology Division, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831-6115, United States
Yiying Ye
Affiliation:
yiying [email protected], Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, United States
Maja Krcmar
Affiliation:
[email protected], Grand Valley State University, Physics Department, One Campus Drive, PAD 144, Allendale, MI, 49401-9403, United States
Chong Long Fu
Affiliation:
[email protected], Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Materials Science & Technology Division, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, United States
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Abstract

We discuss the underlying atomistic mechanism for experimentally observed large tensile ductility in various strongly ordered B2 intermetallic compounds. First-principles calculations demonstrate that all of the compounds exhibit little energy differences between the B2, B27 and B33 phases. These calculations relate observations of ductility in YAg, YCu and ZrCo to shape-memory materials including NiTi. One transformation pathway between the B2 and B33 phases establishes a connection between this phase competition, and stacking faults on the {011}B2 plane. The low energy of such a stacking fault will lead to splitting of the b=<100> dislocations into b/2 partials, observed in ZrCo, TiCo, and in the B19' phase of NiTi. Calculations demonstrate that this pathway is competitive with the traditional pathway for NiTi.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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