Interdiffusion and Atomic Mobilities in Co-rich fcc Co-Cr-V Alloys

Abstract

Diffusion couples for Co-rich fcc Co-Cr-V alloys were prepared, all of which were annealed at 1473 K for 259 200 s. The interdiffusion coefficients in fcc Co-Cr-V ternary systems were investigated by means of Whittle and Green method with the help of electronic-probe microanalysis (EPMA). On the basis of the thermodynamic parameters available in the literature, the interdiffusion data were critically assessed to develop the atomic mobilities of the fcc Co-Cr-V alloys via the DICTRA software. Comprehensive comparisons between the calculated and experimental diffusion coefficients show that the experimental data can be well reproduced by the atomic mobilities obtained in this work. And the validity of the diffusion mobilities was tested by simulating the concentration-distance profiles and diffusion paths in diffusion couples.