@inproceedings{50a8441ffea749108eea18bbc1e5286d,
title = "The origin of predominance of cementite among iron carbides in steel at elevated temperature",
abstract = "A systematic first-principles study was conducted on the stability of binary iron carbides. The calculations showed that all the binary iron carbides are unstable relative to the elemental solids (¿-Fe and graphite). Apart from a cubic Fe23C6 phase, the energetically most favorable carbides exhibit hexagonal close-packed (hcp) Fesublattices. Structural relaxation of the hcp iron carbides was analyzed and discussed together with their relative thermodynamically stability. Finite-temperature analysis showed that contributions from lattice vibration and anomalous magnetic ordering (Curie-Weiss behavior), rather than from the conventional lattice mismatch with the matrix, are the origin of the high stability and predominance of cementite among the iron carbides in steels.",
keywords = "Conf.proc. > 3 pag",
author = "C Fang and MHF Sluiter and {van Huis}, MA and CK Ande and HW Zandbergen",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1557/opl.2011.1440",
language = "English",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
pages = "1--6",
editor = "s.n.",
booktitle = "MRS 2010 Fall Conference",
address = "United Kingdom",
note = "MRS Fall Meeting 2010 ; Conference date: 29-11-2010 Through 03-12-2010",
}