Cm. Wayman, THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY OF MARTENSITE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY - INTERRELATIONSHIPS, Metallurgical and materials transactions. A, Physical metallurgy andmaterials science, 25(9), 1994, pp. 1787-1795
The phenomenological theory of martensite crystallography is based on
the observation that the habit plane is an invariant plane in which al
l lines in it are neither distorted nor rotated by the displacement ve
ctor of the invariant plane strain. The structural change is effected
by a Bain deformation which follows intuitively from the orientation r
elationship and through which atomic interchanges do not occur. A latt
ice invariant deformation is also incorporated to insure that the mart
ensite-parent interface is semicoherent and glissile. These factors an
d the orientation relationship as well are uniquely interrelated withi
n the theoretical framework and must be so for any transformation alle
ged to follow the theory.