en Research Paper Research Paper In this research, variant selection of martensite transformed from ultrafine-grained (UFG) austenite fabricated by accumulative roll bonding (ARB) process and subsequent annealing was investigated with respect tomorphology of parentaustenitic phase. The results show that the original shape of austenite grain is very effective factor in determiningthe preferred variants of martensite transformed from the elongated ultrafine-grained austenite fabricated by 6-cycles via the ARB process. Annealing treatment of the austenitic samples subjected to the 6-cycle ARB processed at 873 K for 1.8 ks suppressed the variant selection by changing the morphology of austenite grains from elongated ultrafine-grains to fully-recrystallized and equiaxed fine-grains Martensitic transformation, Accumulative roll bonding, Ultrafine-grained austenite, Variant selection, 19 28 http://ijmse.iust.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-127-11&slc_lang=en&sid=1 H. R. Jafarian jafarian@iust.ac.ir 180031947532846002126 180031947532846002126 Yes E. Borhani 180031947532846002127 180031947532846002127 No