“…All the binary intermediate phases; Co 3 M, CoM 3 , sigma, V 3 C 2 , V 2 C, and VC are adopted in the Co-V-C system in the present evaluation. In the Co-V system, the Co 3 M and CoM 3 phases are treated as stoichiometric compounds with a molar Gibbs energy given by: The sigma phase in the Co-V system is similar to the phase in the Ni-V [12,13] and Fe-V [23] systems, with a significant composition range. According to Andersson et al [24], the sigma phase can be modeled with three sublattices, one sublattiee with fcc-like co-ordination and two sublattices with bcc-like co-ordination, i.e.…”