Estimation of the Critical Temperatures of Order-Disorder Phase Transitions in Cu-Au Alloys Using Short-Range Order Parameters

Abstract

An expression for calculating the critical temperature of order-disorder transition in face-centered cubic alloys is developed with accounting of pairwise interatomic potential in the first eleven shells. Obtained expression was applied for the estimation of critical temperatures at Cu3Au, CuAu, and CuAu3alloys in comparison with experimental data from phase diagram of Cu-Au system. Magnitudes of the pairwise interatomic potential in considered alloys was computed using values of the short-range order parameters which were experimentally obtained from X-ray diffuse scattering intensity. In this computation, the Krivoglaz-Clapp-Moss approximation and Cowley equations were applied.