10.
Under carefully chosen conditions, solidification theory may be applied to solid-state transformations, and this has been
done here for composition-invariant diffusion transformations. The predictions of the modeling are compared with isovelocity
experiments in two iron systems, Fe-7.29 wt pct Cr and Fe-3.1 wt pct Ni. The ferrite to austenite phase transformation is
used to demonstrate that stabilization of a planar transformation front at absolute stability is the natural lower velocity
limit for a composition-invariant (massive) transformation. The results of the model, which includes nonequilibrium effects,
clearly show that steady-state plane-front growth leading to composition invariance can be obtained at various temperatures
depending on the growth velocity. In the lower velocity range, at the limit of absolute stability (of the order of 10
μm/s in the systems studied), the transformation interface moves under conditions of local equilibrium, and the temperature
corresponds to the lower solvus temperature. At higher velocity (of the order of the interface diffusion rate, which in these
systems is of the order of cm/s), the transformation is predicted to proceed at temperatures close to
T
0. At even higher rates, atom attachment kinetic undercooling will decrease the transformation temperature with respect to
T
0. In some cases, this temperature might even drop below the lower solvus.
This article is based on a presentation made at the symposium entitled “The Mechanisms of the Massive Transformation,” a part
of the Fall 2000 TMS Meeting held October 16–19, 2000, in St. Louis, Missouri, under the auspices of the ASM Phase Transformations
Committee.
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