Interdiffusion and Atomic Mobilities in fcc Co-Cr-Mo Alloys

Abstract

The diffusion couples of Co-Cr-Mo ternary alloys were prepared and annealed at 1473 K for 72 h in order to determine the interdiffusion coefficients by using the electron probe microanalysis combined with Whittle and Green method. The experimental interdiffusion coefficients were critically assessed to the atomic mobilities by means of DICTRA software package. Good agreements were obtained from comprehensive comparison between the model-predicted diffusion properties and the experimental data, meanwhile, considered that the calculated diffusion coefficients were within the acceptable uncertainty of the experimentally measured diffusion coefficients, which verified the reliability of the atomic mobilities. The diffusion phenomena, such as diffusion paths and the concentration-distance profiles in the Co-Cr-Mo ternary system can be reasonably described by the presently obtained atomic mobilities.