Abstract
The results of previous extensive experiments on γ′-Ni 3Al systems are interpreted and explained by means of Monte Carlo computer simulations. The complex character of the experimental ‘order–order’ relaxation curves, as well as the theoretically predicted effect of vacancy ordering have been reproduced and analysed in detail in terms of the dynamics of particular kinds of atomic jumps. The Monte Carlo simulations of ‘order–order’ kinetics were performed both for an Ising A 3B L1 2-ordered system and for Ni 3Al with lattice energetics considered within the ‘embedded-atom-method’ (EAM). The EAM yielded estimations of both atomic pair-interactions and ‘effective’ saddle-point energies for vacancy jumps in Ni 3Al. The proposed model scenario for the creation and elimination of anti-site atoms in the relaxing L1 2-type superstructure shows that the experimentally observed features of the ‘order–order’ processes in Ni 3Al follow from an interplay between short- and long-range ordering effects resulting from the system energetics and the superlattice geometry.
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