Fe-Nb-Ni (Iron-Niobium-Nickel) : Binary Systems

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Section II: Phase Diagram Evaluations JPEDAV (2010) 31:180–183

DOI: 10.1007/s11669-010-9654-3
1547-7037 ÓASM International

Fe-Nb-Ni (Iron-Niobium-Nickel)
V. Raghavan

The early review of this ternary system by [1992Rag]


presented a tentative isothermal section at 1000 °C from the
studies of [1989Sav]. The updates by [2004Rag] and
[2007Rag] presented an isothermal section at 1200 °C from
[2001Tak] and [2005Tak]. Recently, [2009Mat] carried out a
Calphad-type assessment of this ternary system and calcu-
lated a number of isothermal sections. This work will be
reviewed briefly in this update.

Binary Systems

The Fe-Nb phase diagram [2000Tof] depicts two inter-


mediate phases: Fe2Nb (C14, MgZn2-type hexagonal) and
Fe7Nb6 (D85, Fe7W6-type rhombohedral). In the Fe-Ni
phase diagram [1991Swa], a continuous face-centered cubic
solid solution (denoted c) forms between cFe and Ni and is
stable over a wide range of temperature. At 517 °C, an
ordered phase FeNi3 (L12, AuCu3-type cubic) forms con-
gruently from c. The Nb-Ni phase diagram [2006Che,
1996Bol], has the following intermediate phases: Nb7Ni6
(D85, Fe7W6-type rhombohedral), NbNi3 (D0a, Cu3Ti-type
orthorhombic) and NbNi8 (tetragonal). Computed phase Fig. 2 Fe-Nb-Ni computed isothermal section at 1250 °C
[2009Mat]
diagrams of the above systems were given by [2009Mat].

Fig. 1 Fe-Nb-Ni computed isothermal section at 1291 °C Fig. 3 Fe-Nb-Ni computed isothermal section at 1200 °C
[2009Mat] [2009Mat]

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Computed Isothermal Sections models, providing for ternary solubility. In addition, the
modeling included metastable phases L10, D022 and C15, to
The liquid, disordered fcc and disordered bcc phases facilitate the future extension of the thermodynamic
were modeled as substitutional solutions by [2009Mat]. The description to higher order systems. Ab-initio calculations
magnetic contribution to the Gibbs energy of the bcc and fcc were done by [2009Mat] to estimate the enthalpies of
phases was taken into account. The binary phases C14, D85, formation of the elements and the compounds on the basis
D0a and L12 were described by appropriate sublattice of the Density Functional Theory, using the Generalized

Fig. 4 Fe-Nb-Ni computed isothermal section at 1000 °C Fig. 6 Fe-Nb-Ni computed isothermal section at 800 °C
[2009Mat] [2009Mat]

Fig. 5 Fe-Nb-Ni computed isothermal section at 950 °C Fig. 7 Fe-Nb-Ni computed isothermal section at 450 °C
[2009Mat] [2009Mat]

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Fig. 8 Fe-Nb-Ni tentative reaction sequence

Gradient Approximation method. The ab-initio values were present in the system. Solid-state transition reactions occur
used in the optimization. Detailed discussion and compar- below 950 °C (Fig. 5), to yield the phase distribution seen at
ison of the modeling, the magnetic contribution and the 800 and 450 °C (Fig. 6 and 7). Based on the computed
ab-initio calculations were presented by [2009Mat]. The isothermal sections of [2009Mat] and the binary systems, a
available experimental phase diagram data, with the excep- tentative reaction sequence is shown in Fig. 8.
tion of one or two results, were used in the optimization.
The optimized parameters were listed.
[2009Mat] computed seven isothermal sections at 1291,
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