Abstract
AbstractMetastable austenitic steels can undergo phase transformation. As an allotrope two crystal configurations are of interest: the softer austenitic parent phase and the martensitic phases. Here, the bain orientation relationship leads to distinct orientations for the martensitic variants with a different transformation strain [7]. A phase field approach is used to model the transformation, where a multi‐valued order parameter identifies the austenitic parent phase and the martensitic variants. This allows to define bulk and surface energies as regularized functions in terms of the order parameter and its gradient. The kinetics of the martensitic transformation are temperature dependent. Temperatures below an equilibrium temperature favour the growth of the martensitic phase, whereas temperatures above the equilibrium favour the austenitic phase. Approaching the equilibrium temperature slows down the transformation [5]. In this work we consider a static crack under mode I and mode II loading.
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