Phenomenological Theory of Martensite in Steels
Channel: bhadeshia123
Date: 24/04/2011

This elegant crystallographic theory is able to explain all of the puzzling features of martensite - why it grows on strange habit planes, why the orientation relationship is irrational, the nature of the deformation accompanying the transformation and much more.

This should be useful to anyone interested in solid-state phase transformations and the physical metallurgy of steels.

The talk was delivered at CSIRO, Adelaide, Australia by Professor H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia of the University of Cambridge.

More information on 

http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/phase-trans/teaching.html