“…This increasing fraction of martensite would lead to local strain re-distribution among different phases and inhibit the transformation behaviors, as suggested in previous study (Knijf et al, 2014). Previous research also suggested that the continuous deformation with proper strain and stress partitioning among different phases based on the law of mixture can still keep a hardening potential without transformation and retard the onset of strain localization (Kuang et al, 2009;Knijf et al, 2014;Bouquerel et al, 2006;Kang et al, 2007;Jacques et al, 2007;Lani et al, 2007;Han et al, 2014;Fillafer et al, 2014;Tasan et al, 2014). Of course, this hardening potential should be much weaker than the strong hardening induced by martensite transformation.…”