Ab initio approaches to designing alloy phase equilibria.
Résumé
We present a brief overview of recent ab initio based developments to designing bulk thermodynamic properties and phase equilibria for alloys. We also discuss the potential links that exist between ab initio methodologies and the Calphad phenomenological approach, in order to build an efficient and predictive tool for the calculation of phase equilibria of complex, multi-component often found in industrial alloys.