Lath(Packet)MartensiteRevisited-BerkeleyMSE.pdfVIP

In Steel Heat Treating in the New Millenium: An Internationals Symposium in Honor of Professor George Krauss. ASM International, 2000, pp. 515-519 Lath (Packet) Martensite Revisited Gareth Thomas Department of Materials Science ans Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1760, USA, and Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Greg Kusinski Department of Materials Science ans Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1760, USA Abstract packet lath microstructure rather than the brittle twinned plate martensites which form at lower Ms transformation The structure of packet lath martensite is reviewed to temperatures. reemphasize that its structure is two-phase with interlath Since the γ→α′ transition occurs with the K-S untransformed austenite forming a multilayer with the crystallographic relationships, there is a maximum of only 4 martensitic (α′) laths. Some implications of this structure for variants of the habit planes ({111}), and thus only a maximum of structural steel applications, especially dual-phase steels, are 4 packets (orientations) of α′ for each γ grain.