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Physical behaviors of impure atoms during relaxation of impure NiAl-based alloy grain boundary

LOW ENERGY ACCELERATOR, RAY TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS

Physical behaviors of impure atoms during relaxation of impure NiAl-based alloy grain boundary

ZHENG Li-Ping
JIANG Bing-Yao
LIU Xiang-Huai
LI Dou-Xing
Nuclear Science and TechniquesVol.14, No.1pp.60-63Published in print 01 Feb 2003
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The Monte Carlo simulation with the energetics described by the embedded atom method has been employed to mainly study physical behaviors of boron atoms during relaxation of the Ni3Al-x at.% B grain boundary. During relaxation of impure Ni3Al grain boundaries, we suggest that for different types of impure atoms(Mg, B, Cr and Zr atoms etc.), as the segregating species, they have the different behaviors, but as the inducing species, they have the same behaviors, i.e. they all induce Ni atoms to substitute Al atoms. Calculations show that at the equilibrium, when x(the B bulk concentration) increases from 0.1 to 0.9 , the peak concentration of B increases, correspondently, the peak concentration of Ni maximizes but the valley concentration of Al minimizes, at x = 0.5. The calculations also show the approximate saturation of Ni at the grain boundary at x = 0.5.

Grain boundarySegregating speciesInducing species
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