Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2011
The core as well as the long range elastic displacements around N octahedral interstitial atoms in Ta and Nb are modelled using the Green Function – Kanzaki force method. The theoretical calculations are compared with experimental attenuation factor and diffuse scattering data, reported in the literature, for both N in Nb and N in Ta [1,2,3]. It is shown that a third neighbor radial Kanzaki force model is needed to explain the experimental findings, and the long range elastic displacement field is non-spherical.