Microstructural evolution in inhomogeneous elastic media (Q676330)

A numerical method based on boundary integrals is developed to study the diffusional evolution of microstructures produced by solid state diffusional transformations in elastically stressed binary alloys in two dimensions. The precipitate and matrix phases are isotropic and linearly elastic. First, the evolution of microstructure is studied by computing the elastic fields. These are used to obtain the boundary conditions for the composition in the matrix at the precipitate-matrix interface. Then the diffusion field in the matrix is calculated, and the normal velocity of each precipitate-matrix interface is found using a flux balance at the interface.