A simple and accurate method for calculating stacking fault energies was developed on the basis of an improved embedded-atom model. By using this method, stacking fault energies were calculated for some pure face-centered cubic metals and for some face-centered cubic disordered solid solutions of Ni-Cu, Ni-Co, and Ni-Al. The calculated results were found to be in good agreement with experimental data.

X.Nie, R.Wang, Y.Ye, Y.Zhou, D.Wang: Solid State Communications, 1995, 96[10], 729-34