“…In this paper we will focus on martensitic or diffusionless transformations (Ahluwalia et al, 2003;Artemev et al, 2001;Curnoe and Jacobs, 2001a,b;Jacobs et al, 2003;Jin et al, 2001;Levitas and Preston, 2002a,b;Levitas et al, 2003;Levitas and Lee, 2007;Lookman et al, 2003a,b;Rasmussen et al, 2001;Seol et al, 2003;Shenoy et al, 1999;Wang et al, 2001). Deformation of the crystal lattice of the austenite, A, the high-temperature phase, into the martensite, M, the low temperature phase, can be described by the transformation strain tensor e t (also called the Bain strain or spontaneous strain).…”