Comparison of Pair Potential and Thermochemical Models of the Heat of Formation of BCC and FCC Alloys

Authors: Birnie, Dunbar; Machlin, E. S.; Kaufman, Larry; and Taylor, Keith
Source: CALPHAD 6 (1982) 93-126

Abstract: A computer program is presented providing a means for calculating the heat of formation for binary systems composed of twenty-seven elements. The results are compared with thermochemical values for sixty-six binary systems composed of all combinations of aluminum, cobalt, chromium, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, silicon, titanium and tungsten. The level of agreement provides a good measure of confidence in the usefulness of this pair potential model to obtain estimates for data which is otherwise available.