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•Disordered BCC Fe–Cr–W solid solutions are studied using ab initio calculations.•Cubic elastic constants are calculated as a function of composition in the range of 7.8–10wt.% Cr, and 1–2wt.% W.•The effect of alloying elements on the elastic properties of polycrystalline alloys is analyzed.
Reduced activation ferritic/martensitic (RAFM) steels are considered as the primary candidate for the blanket module in International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and the basic composition of RAFM steels is Fe–Cr–W alloy. Using the exact muffin-tin orbitals method (EMTO) combined with coherent potential approximation (CPA), we investigated composition dependence of elastic properties for Fe–Cr–W random alloys in the composition range of 7.8–10.0wt.% of Cr and 1.0–2.0wt.% of W. Bulk modulus, shear modulus, Young’s modulus, B/G ratio, and Poisson ratio are discussed as functions of ternary composition. The elastic moduli of Fe–Cr–W alloys increase with chromium content in the studied range of alloy compositions, the effect of tungsten is slight.