Phase stability of ternary fcc and bcc Fe-Cr-Ni alloys

Abstract

The phase stability of fcc and bcc magnetic binary Fe-Cr, Fe-Ni, Cr-Ni alloys and ternary Fe-Cr-Ni alloys is investigated using a combination of density functional theory (DFT), Cluster Expansion (CE) and Magnetic Cluster Expansion (MCE). Energies, magnetic moments, and volumes of more than 500 alloy structures are evaluated using DFT, and the most stable magnetic configurations are compared with experimental data. Deviations from the Vegard law in fcc Fe-Cr-Ni alloys, associated with non-linear variation of atomic magnetic moments as functions of alloy composition, are observed. Accuracy of the CE model is assessed against the DFT data, where for ternary alloys the cross-validation error is smaller than 12 meV/atom. A set of cluster interaction parameters is defined for each alloy, where it is used for predicting new ordered alloy structures. Fcc Fe2CrNi phase with Cu2NiZn-like structure is predicted as the global ground state with the lowest chemical ordering temperature of 650K. DFT-based Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are used for assessing finite temperature fcc-bcc phase stability and order-disorder transitions in Fe-Cr-Ni alloys. Enthalpies of formation of ternary alloys calculated from MC simulations at 1600K combined with magnetic correction derived from MCE are in excellent agreement with experimental values measured at 1565K. Chemical order is analysed, as a function of temperature and composition, in terms of the Warren-Cowley short-range order (SRO) parameters and effective chemical pairwise interactions.

38 pages, 18 figures

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