Building a Thermodynamic Database for Platinum-Based Superalloys: Part I: INTRODUCTION, AND INITIAL RESULTS FROM THE COMPOUND ENERGY FORMALISM MODEL

By L. A. Cornish; R. Süss; A. Watson; and S. N. Prins

doi:10.1595/147106707X212967

ISSN: 0032-1400

oa Building a Thermodynamic Database for Platinum-Based Superalloys: Part I

INTRODUCTION, AND INITIAL RESULTS FROM THE COMPOUND ENERGY FORMALISM MODEL
By By L. A. Cornish, R. Süss, A. Watson and and S. N. Prins
Source: Platinum Metals Review, Volume 51, Issue 3, Jul 2007, p. 104 - 115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1595/147106707X212967
- Published online: 01 Jul 2007

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Work is being done at Mintek, the University of Leeds and the University of Bayreuth to build up a platinum-aluminium-chromium-ruthenium (Pt-Al-Cr-Ru) database for the prediction of phase diagrams for further alloy development by obtaining good thermodynamic descriptions of all of the possible phases in the system. The available databases do not cover all of the phases, and these had to be gleaned from literature, or modelled using experimental data. Similarly, not all of the experimental data were known, and where there were gaps or inconsistencies, experiments had to be undertaken. A preliminary version of the database was constructed from assessed thermodynamic data-sets for the binary systems only. The binary descriptions were combined, allowing extrapolation into the ternary systems, and experimental phase equilibrium data were compared with calculated results. Very good agreement was obtained for the Pt-Al-Ru and Pt-Cr-Ru systems, which was encouraging and confirmed that the higher-order systems could be calculated from the binary systems with confidence. Since some of the phase models in earlier databases were different, these phases had to be remodelled. However, more work is ongoing for information concerning the ternary phases present in the Al-Cr-Ru, Pt-Al-Ru (two ternary compounds in each) and Pt-Al-Cr (possibly more than three ternary compounds) systems. Later in the work, problems with the thermodynamic descriptions of the Cr-Ru and Pt-Cr binary systems were found, and a programme of experimental work to overcome these has been devised, and is being undertaken.

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