Study of precipitate morphology by consideration of elastic strain energy
A formulation given by A.G. Khachaturyan for the elastic strain energy of a coherent second phase inclusion of arbitrary shape in an elastically anisotropic medium is used to calculate numerically the elastic energy for three different shapes - disk, lens, and ellipsoid - of ..cap alpha..'' (Fe/sub 16/N/sub 2/) particles in the Fe-N system, as a function of the particle aspect ratio. The results of the calculation are used to compute values for an isotropic interface energy ..gamma.., using experimental reports of particle dimensions. Two other elastic energy models are also used to compute ..gamma.., one from an analytical approximation by Khachaturyan, and one from the work of J.D. Eshelby. All these models are also used in conjunction with an anisotropic interface energy model to calculate values for the habit plane interface energy ..gamma../sub H/. The vaues for the interface energy are found to be much more consistent with the theory when the anisotropic model is used.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 6575161
- Report Number(s):
- LBL-10639
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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