Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10620791 | Acta Materialia | 2009 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
The coarsening theory of a spherical particle in a ternary alloy developed by Kuehmann and Voorhees (KV) has been generalized to any centro-symmetric particle. A classical thermodynamic analysis reveals that the generalized KV theory enables us to estimate the interface energy of a particle with a fixed shape, even if the shape of the particle is not controlled by minimization of the interface energy. Data on the coarsening of spherical, {0Â 0Â 1}-faceted cuboidal and {1Â 1Â 1}-faceted octahedral precipitates in a Cu-Co alloy, a Cu-Fe alloy, and three Cu-Co-Fe alloys with different Co and Fe contents during aging at 873-973Â K have been collected by transmission electron microscopy and electrical resistivity. By applying the generalized KV theory to the experimental data, the energies of sphere, {0Â 0Â 1} and {1Â 1Â 1} interfaces have been determined. Their energies increase with increasing the Fe composition in the alloys.
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Authors
Daizen Watanabe, Chihiro Watanabe, Ryoichi Monzen,