CALCULATIONS ON THE ANNEALING OF VACANCIES AND VACANCY-IMPURITY COMPLEXES IN QUENCHED GOLD.

Abstract

A series of calculations was performed on the interactions of lattice defects, in particular on the annealing in gold of quenched-in vacancies and vacancy-impurity complexes during a constant heating rate temperature excursion. The calculations were carried out by developing a system of coupled nonlinear differential equations to represent defect migration, aggregation, and dissociation, and solving the system numerically on a digital computer. Curves for the effective activation energy were obtained as functions of time and temperature. The effects of heating rate, defect migration energy, defect binding energy, and vacancy-impurity complex mobility were studied. The consequences of the low-binding and high-binding models for the divacancy were explored, and only the latter was found to give qualitative agreement with the experimental data of Gegel. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0830857

Entities

People

  • D. G. Besco
  • J. R. Beeler Jr

Organizations

  • General Electric

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Annealing
  • Computers
  • Differential Equations
  • Digital Computers
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Heat Of Activation
  • Heating
  • Impurities
  • Migration
  • Nonlinear Differential Equations

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Materials Science and Engineering.