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They pointed out that a preferential concentration of hydrogen atoms can occur at stress fields as a result of diffusion, leading to the nucleation of hydride plates at these sites by a shear type mechanism. In recent papers$\\sp{(2-5)}$, the crystallography of the formation of $\\beta$ vanadium and zirconium hydrides has been compared with the predictions of the phenomenological crystallographic theory of martensitic transformations. These papers suggest the mechanism for the transformation from $\\alpha$ vanadium and zirconium to $\\beta$ vanadium and zirconium is such that the substitutional atoms undergo a martensitic shear while the hydrogen atoms diffuse to their new ordered positions. To extend the validity of this phenomenological approach, the crystallography and substructure of transformations in niobium hydrides were investigated quantitatively in this work.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T20:52:20Z (GMT). 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