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Effect of Applied Stress on the Martensitic Transformation

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The martensitic transformation can be initiated by elastic stresses at temperatures above M. in a steel containing 20 pct Ni and 0.5 pct C. Shear strains and normal tensile strains acting on a potential habit plane promote the transformation but compressive strains oppose it.

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  1. Westinghouse Atomic Power Div., Bettis Field, Pittsburgh, USA

    S. A. Kulin (Student Associate AIME)

  2. Dept. of Metallurgy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA

    Morris Cohen (Member AIME) & B. L. Averbach (Junior Member AIME)

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Discussion on this paper, TP 3274E, may be sent, 2 copies, to AIME by Dec. 1, 1952. Manuscript, Feb. 13, 1952. Philadelphia Meeting, October 1952.

This paper is based on a thesis by S. A. Kulin submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Science in Metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1951. The investigation was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research under Contract N5-ori-07814, Task No. XIV, Designation No. NR-031-142.

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Kulin, S.A., Cohen, M. & Averbach, B.L. Effect of Applied Stress on the Martensitic Transformation. JOM 4, 661–668 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03397742

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