The lath-or plate-shaped bainitic ferrite of low and medium carbon alloy steels consists ofpackets of ferrite sublaths which are composed of many finer and regular ferrite blocks.Theyare uniform shear growth units of bainitic phase transformation.No carbide is precipitatedfrom them.The bainitic O-carbides are precipitated from γ-α interface or carbon-richaustenite.The mode of arrangement of the units in ferrite sublath packet is in uni-or bi-di-rection.Single surface relief is produced by the accumulation of uniform shear strains with allthe ferrite units arranged unidirectionally in a sublath packet,while tent-shaped surface reliefis formed by the integration of the uniform shear strains of two groups with ferrite units pilingup in two directions and growing face to face;whereas if they grow back to back,the integra-tion will be responsible for invert-tent-shaped surface relief.The interface trace between twogroups of ferrite units in a sublath packet is shown as“midrib”.
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