Diffusivities and atomic mobilities in disordered fcc and ordered L12 Ni–Al–W alloys

Abstract

Based on various experimentally measured diffusivities available in the literature together with the reported thermodynamic parameters, the atomic mobilities for disordered fcc and ordered L12 Ni–Al–W alloys were assessed on the basis of a recently developed phenomenological model incorporated in the DICTRA software. In order to provide the missing impurity diffusion coefficients of W in fcc_Al, first-principles calculations were utilized in the present work. Comprehensive comparisons between the calculated and experimental diffusion coefficients show that all the experimental data can be well reproduced by the atomic mobilities obtained in the present work. In order to further verify the reliability of the presently obtained atomic mobilities, two fcc/L12-type diffusion couples (i.e., Ni–5at.% Al–5at.% W/Ni–20at.% Al–4at.% W and Ni/Ni–22at.% Al–2at.% W) were prepared and the concentration-distance profiles after annealing at 1323K for 86.4ks were measured. The excellent agreement between the model-predicted concentration-distance profiles and the experimental data indicates that the presently obtained atomic mobilities in fcc/L12 Ni–Al–W alloys are reliable.