Atomic configuration and properties of austenitic steels at finite temperature: The effect of longitudinal spin fluctuations

Abstract

High temperature atomic configurations of fcc Fe-Cr-Ni alloys with alloy composition close to austenitic steel are studied in statistical thermodynamic simulations with effective interactions obtained in ab initio calculations. The latter are done taking longitudinal spin fluctuations (LSF) into consideration within a quasiclassical phenomenological model. It is demonstrated that magnetic state affects greatly the alloy properties and in particular, it is shown that the LSF substantially modify the bonding and interatomic interactions of fcc Fe-Cr-Ni alloys even at ambient conditions. The calculated atomic short-range order (SRO) is in reasonable agreement with existing experimental data for Fe0.56}Cr0.21Ni0.23, which has strong preference for the (001) type ordering between Ni and Cr atoms. A similar ordering tendency is found for the Fe0.75Cr0.17Ni0.08 alloy composition, which approximately corresponds to the widely used 304 and 316 austenitic steel grades.

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

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