Number: Mech 8/90
Author(s): BEREZOVSKI, A., ROZENBLUM, V.
Title: Multistage phase transitions in solids. 16 p.
Language: English
ABSTRACT. It is necessary to describe the phase transitions in the terms of
continuum thermoMechanics in order to take the effects of phase transformations
in solids on constitutive laws into account. In this paper such an approach is
briefly described on a new level which is not widely accepted. It is shown that
the behavior of materials undergoing phase transitions may give new insight
even ignoring Mechanical effects. That gives a certain hope for more exact
interpretation of the thermoMechanical behavior of materials undergoing phase
transitions.