Thermodynamic assessment of the Cu–Dy binary system

Abstract The Cu–Dy binary system has been thermodynamically assessed with CALPHAD approach. The solution phases including liquid, Bcc, Fcc and Hcp were treated as substitutional solution phases, of which the excess Gibbs energies were formulated with Redlich–Kister polynomial functions. The binary intermetallic compounds were treated as stoichiometric phases. A set of self-consistent thermodynamic parameters for describing various phases in this system has been obtained, which can well reproduce the corresponding experimental data.