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Comparison of interfacial structure-related mechanisms in diffusional and martensitic transformations

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Some central problems in understanding the similarities of and the differences between ledgewise martensitic and ledgewise diffusional growth are examined. Martensitic growth can be described in terms of a lattic correspondence and a plane undistorted by the shear transformation. Diffusional growth can be similarly described in some cases but not in others. On the basis of the Sutton-Balluffi definitions of glissile and sessile boundaries, only misfit dislocations (on terraces or risers) or orthogonal sets of disconnections provide a truly sessile interface. When closely spaced structural ledges (now termed “structural disconnections”) are present during diffusional growth, they must have been glissile in the formation of a local equilibrium structure during the initial stages of growth. Once they are in local equilibrium and evenly spaced, however, they can only move synchronously because of their local strain interaction. Under these circumstances, extrinsic sources of growth ledges are required to move such interfaces in a diffusional manner. During martensitic growth, however, disconnections in the form of transformation dislocations can move freely in a synchronous manner. Also, on this basis, the apparent (undistorted) habit plane is generally useful in deducing the transformation mechanism during martensite formation, but is only occasionally so during diffusional growth, where only the terrace plane is generally useful.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA

    H. I. Aaronson (R.F. Mehl University Professor Emeritus, Visiting Professor)

  2. School of Physics and Materials Engineering, Monash University, 3800, Victoria, Australia

    H. I. Aaronson (R.F. Mehl University Professor Emeritus, Visiting Professor), B. C. Muddle (Professor and Head) & J. F. Nie (Senior Lecturer)

  3. Ohio State University and Washington State University, 114 E. Ramsey Canyon Rd., 85615, Hereford, AZ

    J. P. Hirth (Professor Emeritus)

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This article is based on a presentation in the symposium “Interfacial Dislocations: Symposium in Honor of J.H. van der Merwe on the 50th Anniversary of His Discovery,” as part of the 2000 TMS Fall Meeting, October 11–12, 2000, in St. Louis, Missouri, sponsored under the auspices of ASM International, Materials Science Critical Technology Sector, Structures.

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Aaronson, H.I., Muddle, B.C., Nie, J.F. et al. Comparison of interfacial structure-related mechanisms in diffusional and martensitic transformations. Metall Mater Trans A 33, 2541–2547 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-002-0374-0

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