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 equili