Modeling of phase transformations and superelastic hardening of unstable materials

The article presents models of superelastic hardening of materials with unstable phase structure at a constant temperature. The kinetic equation of the process of formation and growth of spherical nuclei of a new phase is formulated depending on the level of development of inelastic structural deformations, according to which the new phase first represents separate inclusions from embryos, developing it forms the structures of the matrix mixture in the form of interpenetrating skeletons, and finally the new phase is transformed in a matrix with separate inclusions from the material of the remains of the old phase. The influence of structural deformations on the features of phase transformations and nonlinear hardening of inhomogeneous unstable materials with different degree of connectivity of the constituent phases is studied. Various variants of the microstructure material formed in the conditions of the phase transition in the form of separate inclusions and in the form of interpenetrating components are considered. New macroscopic determining relationships for unstable microinhomogeneous materials are established and their effective elastic moduli are calculated. Macroscopic conditions of direct and inverse phase transitions are obtained, their effective limits and hardening coefficients are calculated. It is shown that the values of the macroscopic elasticity moduli of the obtained models lie inside the fork of the lower and upper Hashin-Shtrikman boundaries. Numerical analysis of the developed models has shown good agreement with known experimental data.