ON THE STABILITY OF LAVES PHASES
(Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai 200050)
Abstract: The regularities of the crystal-types and melting behaviours (congruent or incongruent melting ) of Laves phases have been investigated by artificial neural networks or pattern recognition methods using chemical bond parameters as inputs or features. And the corresponding criteria based on chemical bond parameters have been obtained.
Key words: Laves phases; Crystal-type criterion; melting behaviour