Modeling stress‐affected chemical reactions in composite materials

Abstract

AbstractThe paper focuses on the modeling of the stress‐affected localized chemical reaction in particles embedded in a matrix material. The self‐consistent field method is used to account for the interaction between particles and to calculate the effective stress field acting on a separate particle. The kinetics of chemical reaction front is governed by the chemical affinity tensor that depends on the stress‐strain state at the reaction front. The influence of the matrix elastic properties and the particle volume fraction on the reaction front kinetics is studied in detail.