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A theoretical investigation of orientation relationships and transformation strains in steels
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posted on 2023-06-09, 05:21 authored by Konstantinos KoumatosKonstantinos Koumatos, A MuehlemannThe identification of orientation relationships (ORs) plays a crucial role in the understanding of solid phase transformations. In steels, the most common models of ORs are the ones by Nishiyama–Wassermann (NW) and Kurdjumov– Sachs (KS). The defining feature of these and other OR models is the matching of directions and planes in the parent face-centred cubic gamma phase to ones in the product body-centred cubic/tetragonal alpha\alpha' phase. In this article a novel method that identifies transformation strains with ORs is introduced and used to develop a new strain-based approach to phase-transformation models in steels. Using this approach, it is shown that the transformation strains that leave a close-packed plane in the gamma phase and a close-packed direction within that plane unrotated are precisely those giving rise to the NW and KS ORs when a cubic product phase is considered. Further, it is outlined how, by choosing different pairs of unrotated planes and directions, other common ORs such as the ones by Pitsch and Greninger–Troiano can be derived. One of the advantages of our approach is that it leads to a natural generalization of the NW, KS and other ORs for different ratios of tetragonality r of the product body-centred tetragonal alpha' phase. These generalized ORs predict a sharpening of the transformation textures with increasing tetragonality and are thus in qualitative agreement with experiments on steels with varying alloy concentration
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Publication status
- Published
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Journal
Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and AdvancesISSN
2053-2733Publisher
WileyExternal DOI
Volume
A73Page range
115-123Department affiliated with
- Mathematics Publications
Research groups affiliated with
- Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Research Group Publications
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