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On the martensitic transformation at temperatures approaching absolute zero

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Plastic deformation and straight-cooling experiments on 18-8 and 1 pct C, 20 pct Ni steels demonstrate that the martensitic transformation proceeds with characteristic rapidity even at temperatures approaching absolute zero. These results indicate that the atom-by-atom growth mechanism for martensite formation is invalid, at least in the alloys studied.

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  1. Department of Metallurgy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA

    S. A. Kulin (Student Associate AIME) & Morris Cohen (Member AIME)

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AIME Chicago Meeting, October 1950.

TP 2907 E. Discussion (2 copies) may be sent to Transactions AIME before Dec. 15, 1950.

The research was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research under Contract No. N5 ori-78. Task No. XIV, Designation No. NR 031-142.

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Kulin, S.A., Cohen, M. On the martensitic transformation at temperatures approaching absolute zero. JOM 2, 1139–1143 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399112

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