Reply to comments by Yu. A. Skakov and M. A. Shtremel' on the article "induced Diffusion: The Main Mechanism for the Production of Driven Alloys"

Abstract

The paper considers the basic physical hypotheses used in constructing models for activated alloy formation by cold intensive plastic deformation. The basis for the model is a messenger mechanism of evolution for the stress pattern in plastic deformation of a polycrystalline material. Allowance is made for the vacancy fluxes as additional accommodation mode for the strain, which provides preservation of the continuity, and which enables one to describe the alloy composition redistribution on strain. Experimental data are compared with conclusions from models for activated alloy formation: a model operated on a ballistic mechanism for atomic migration and an alternative new model considered in the paper. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.