%0 journal article
%@ 0966-9795
%A Kozlov, A.,Ohno, M.,Abu Leil, T.,Hort, N.,Kainer, K.U.,Schmid-Fetzer, R.

%D 2008
%J Intermetallics
%N 2
%P 316-321 
%R doi:10.1016/j.intermet.2007.10.011
%T Phase equilibria, thermodynamics and solidification microstructures of Mg–Sn–Ca alloys, Part 2: Prediction of phase formation in Mg-rich Mg–Sn–Ca cast alloys
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intermet.2007.10.011
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%X The basis of this work is a detailed investigation of phase equilibria of the Mg–Sn–Ca system for wide ranges of composition and temperature by means of a combined approach of our own key experiments, first-principles calculations of finite-temperature properties of the compounds and Calphad-type modeling. In this report, the generated thermodynamic description is applied to predict the phase formation and discuss the solidification behavior of practically important Mg-rich alloys. Solidification calculations, based on computational thermochemistry and the present dataset, are successfully applied to the analysis of experimentally observed as-cast microstructures and thermal analysis data for the Mg-rich alloy samples.