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The common orientation relationships (OR) between austenite, Widmanstätten carbides (WC), and martensite have been studied as a function of the type of the WC/austenite OR (Pitsch, Thompson, or Sleeswyk OR). It has been established that only two of twelve possible OR versions, which are close to the known Bagaryatskii OR, are realized between the WC and martensite upon the martensitic transformation and are observed experimentally. The causes for the realization of these two versions observed upon the experimental investigation of high-carbon steels are discussed with allowance for the specific crystallographic features of the WC/austenite interphase interface structure.
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Original Russian Text © I.G. Kabanova, L.E. Kar’kina, I.L. Yakovleva, V.M. Schastlivtsev, 2007, published in Fizika Metallov i Metallovedenie, 2007, Vol. 103, No. 2, pp. 201–210.
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Kabanova, I.G., Kar’kina, L.E., Yakovleva, I.L. et al. Crystallogeometric analysis of the orientation relationship between austenite, Widmanstätten carbides, and martensite in carbon steels. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 103, 195–204 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X07020093
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