Jan Wróbel

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

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.

The Effect of Electronic Structure on the Phases Present in High Entropy Alloys

Multicomponent systems, termed High Entropy Alloys (HEAs), with predominantly single solid solution phases are a current area of focus in alloy development. Although different empirical rules have been introduced to understand phase formation and determine what the dominant phases may be in these systems, experimental investigation has revealed that in many cases their structure is not a single solid solution phase, and that the rules may not accurately distinguish the stability of the phase boundaries. Here, a combined modelling and experimental approach that looks into the electronic structure is proposed to improve accuracy of the predictions of the majority phase. To do this, the Rigid Band model is generalised for magnetic systems in prediction of the majority phase most likely to be found. Good agreement is found when the predictions are confronted with data from experiments, including a new magnetic HEA system (CoFeNiV). This also includes predicting the structural transition with varying levels of constituent elements, as a function of the valence electron concentration, n, obtained from the integrated spin-polarised density of states. This method is suitable as a new predictive technique to identify compositions for further screening, in particular for magnetic HEAs.

Dynamic simulation of structural phase transitions in magnetic iron

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Magnetic cluster expansion model for random and ordered magnetic face-centered cubic Fe-Ni-Cr alloys

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Thermodynamic and Elastic Properties of the Phases Appearing in the Lightweight La-Mg Alloys

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Ab Initio Based Modelling of Diffusion and Phase Stability of Alloys

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Atomic Ordering in Nano-layered FePt: Multiscale Monte Carlo Simulation

) phase transitions in magnetic iron stems from the interplay between magnetic excitations and lattice vibrations. However, this fact has never been confirmed by a direct dynamic simulation, treating noncollinear magnetic fluctuations and dynamics of atoms, and their coupling at a finite temperature. Starting from a large set of data generated by ab initio simulations, we derive noncollinear magnetic many-body potentials for bcc and fcc iron, describing fluctuations of atomic coordinates in the vicinity of near perfect lattice positions. We then use spin-lattice dynamic simulations to evaluate the difference between the free energies of bcc and fcc phases, assessing their relative stability within a unified dynamic picture. We find two intersections between the bcc and fcc free energy curves, which correspond to the

Thermodynamic and mechanical properties of lanthanum–magnesium phases from density functional theory

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Interatomic spacing distribution in multicomponent alloys

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On the structural stability of ZnO phases

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