Weak Martensitic transformations in Bravais lattices (Q911832): Difference between revisions

Considered are phase transitions of crystals from the point of view of their elastic properties. The typical example the author has in mind is the BCC-FCC phase transition (body-centured to face-centured cubic) observed in Iron and called precisely a martensitic transformation. For that reason, he considers crystals having the symmetry of a Bravais lattice, or behaving ``as if they were Bravais lattices'' and call weak those phase transitions which can be described within the Landau theory by a free energy function invariant under a finite group. Examples are discussed and it is explained why the martensitic transformation of iron is not a weak one.