Alloying effects on the stacking fault energy in austenitic stainless steels from first-principles theory
Journal article, 2006
The stacking fault energy (SFE) of austenitic stainless steels has been determined using a quantum mechanical first-principles approach. We identify the electronic, magnetic and volume effects responsible for the compositional dependence of the SFE. We find that both the alloying element and the composition of the host material are important for understanding the alloying effects. Our results show that no simple and universally valid composition equations exist for the SFE.
Author
L. Vitos
Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Uppsala Universitet
The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Jan-Olof Nilsson
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Microscopy and Microanalysis
B. Johansson
Uppsala Universitet
Sandvik Materials Technology
The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Acta Materialia
1359-6454 (ISSN)
Vol. 54 14 3821-3826Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Other Engineering and Technologies
DOI
10.1016/j.actamat.2006.04.013