Mechanism of the Bainite Transformation www.msm.cam.ac.uk/phase-trans
body-centred cubic cubic close-packed
DISPLACIVE RECONSTRUCTIVE
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upper bainite 1 µm
lower bainite
Surface 1 Surface 2 50 µm Srinivasan & Wayman, 1968
Mechanical stabilisation is only possible with displacive transformations. Mechanical stabilisation never occurs with reconstructive transformations.
50 µm
Bhadeshia and Waugh, 1981
1 2 Fe-0.4C wt% Decarburisation time / s 500 400 300 Temperature / °C
Temperature Ae3' T' o x Carbon in austenite
s d c r 1
Growth is diffusionless. Strain energy must be accounted for.
Oka and Okamoto
Ohmori and Honeycombe