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Effect of magnetism on precipitation of Cu in bcc Fe: Ab-initio based modeling
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Abstract
Theoretical modeling of the decomposition in bcc Fe-Cu alloys has been performed using a combined approach which includes ab-initio calculations of the effective cluster interactions and statistical-mechanical (Monte Carlo) simulations. We showed that the effective Cu-Cu and Cu-vacancy interactions in the bcc Fe matrix have a strong dependence on the global magnetic state of iron. As a result, all the related thermodynamic properties of the alloys (such as solubility limit and diffusivity) are expected to have a pronounced non-Arrhenius temperature behavior, originated from variation of the global magnetization with temperature. We find that strong Cu-vacancy interactions in the bcc Fe matrix lead to a remarkable effect of vacancies on the Cu precipitation and significantly modify the alloy decomposition kinetics under irradiation.
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