Mechanisms of austenite-martensite transition

Abstract
Martensitic transformations originate from the interaction of the short-wave (atomic plane shuffling) and long-wave (homogeneous deformation) processes. The mutual role of these movements is examined with the aim to elucidate formation mechanisms of the structures with lower symmetry at the atomic level. Generic many-body potentials differing in the stability of basic simple structures is employed in the calculations of the system energies in the course of phase transition.