Effect of elastic stress on two-phase binary diffusion couples

A front-tracking, finite difference approach has been used to examine the influence of misfit strain and applied stress on interdiffusion in binary, coherent, two-phase planar diffusion couples assuming local thermodynamic equilibrium at the interface. The phases are cubic; possess different lattice parameters, elastic constants, and diffusivities; and can be oriented in either the [001] or [111] direction. Interface compositions, which are time...