Plastic deformation viewed as evolution of an active medium.pdfVIP

Pergamon In!. J. Solids Slructures Vol. 34, No. 29, pp. 3795-3805, 1997 ? 1997 Elsevier Seience Ud All rights reserved. Printed in Great Britain PlI: S0020-7683(97)00003-6 002Cl-7683j97 $17.00 + .00 PLASTIC DEFORMATION VIEWED AS EVOLUTION OF AN ACTIVE MEDIUM L B. ZUEV AND V, I. DANILOV Institute of Strength Physics and Material Science, SB RAS; 634021, Tomsk, Russia (Received 8 November 1995; in revisedform 20 November 1996) Abstract-The process of plastic flow in crystalline solids has been viewed as the evolution of an active medium in an open system far from thermodynamic equilibrium, The formation of lattice defects, the localization of strain and its variation in the different stages of flow are shown to be related to emergence and evolution of active media of definite types, the evolution of plastic flow involving propagation of different types of self-excited waves and formation of dissipative structures, The analogy with processes occurring in solids under deformation and with the emergence of structures in chemical and biological systems is discussed. Possible types of waves and observing conditions have been classified, ? 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd. I. INTRODUCTION Plastic ftow in solids und er loading is attended by emergence of ensembles of lattice defects of different types (see, e,g McLean (1963) Honeykombe (1968?. At present, the reasons for their emergence are not clearly understood; neither are the reasons for plastic strain localizing as a stationary or a mobile neck detectable in the early stages offtow. At the same time, spontaneous delamination of initially homogeneous systems is widely encountered and is thoroughly studied in many divisions of solid-state physics. An approach to this problem as based on the concepts of synergism can be found in the literature (Nicolis el al. (1989)). The same delamination could be viewed in the spirit of Haken (1988) as the process of self- organization, viz. an emergence in the system