Failure of Structural Material as a Nonequilibrium Phase Transition

E. A. Lukashev^a^,*, E. V. Radkevich^b^,**, M. I. Sidorov^a, and O. A. Vasil’eva^c
Translated by I. Ruzanova

^aResearch Institute “Geodesy,” Krasnoarmeisk, Moscow oblast, 141292 Russia

^bFaculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992 Russia

^cMoscow State University of Civil Engineering, Moscow, 129337 Russia

Correspondence to: *e-mail: elukashov@yandex.ru
Correspondence to: **e-mail: evrad07@gmail.com

Received 26 December, 2017

Abstract—The initial stage of instability in the failure of a structural material treated as a nonequilibrium phase transition is reconstructed. Its mechanism is based on spinodal decomposition (diffusion separation).

DOI: 10.1134/S1064562418030080