Thermodynamic assessment of the Al-Fe-Si system

The phase equilibria and thermodynamic properties of the ternary Al-Fe-Si system were analyzed and a complete thermodynamic description of the ternary system was obtained. The thermodynamic descriptions of the three binary systems were taken from the literature. Most of the binary intermetallic phases, except Al13Fe4(ϑ), FeSi2-L, and FeSi2-H, were assumed to have no ternary solubility. Based on the experimental data, seven stable ternary intermetallic phases were considered in the system. Two of them were treated as semistoichiometric compounds with homogeneity ranges for Al and Si, and the others were treated as stoichiometric compounds. Reasonable agreement was obtained between calculation results and experimental information in the ternary system.