G. Martin et al., PHASE-STABILITY AND MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION IN CONCENTRATED ALLOYS UNDER IRRADIATION, Journal of nuclear materials, 205, 1993, pp. 301-311
Concentrated alloys under irradiation can be modelled as a collection
of atoms which exchange lattice sites according to two mechanisms occu
rring in parallel: thermally activated jumps of point defects and forc
ed jumps imposed by the replacement collisions or cascade core mixing.
Several techniques are presented for handling such a model: in partic
ular, stochastic potentials which play a role similar to the free ener
gy can be computed in simple cases; dynamical-equilibrium phase diagra
ms can be constructed, and the evolution of the precipitate morphology
for varying irradiation conditions can be modelled. The basic techniq
ues are briefly introduced and some successful applications of the mod
el are exemplified: they deal with the inversion of phase stability in
Ni4Mo, the existence of capillarity-like effects, the various dissolu
tion modes of ordered precipitates and the effects of cascade size and
density on two-phase equilibria under irradiation.