Plastic deformation modelled as a self-excited wave process at the meso- and macro-level

A self-excited wave model is developed to describe plastic flow phenomena in crystalline solids. Experimental observations suggest that by plastic flow in single crystals and polycrystalline materials, different underlying mechanisms are responsible for key features of strain localisation corresponding to different stages of the deformation curve. The major autowave (self-excited wave) types manifest themselves in plastically deforming materials. The self-excited wave model could explain plastic flow pattern behaviour corresponding to different physical mechanisms.