Effect of explosions on material with a defect-saturated structure

The influence of an explosive load on the structure of martensitic steel and of quickly quenched and amorphous alloys, i.e., materials a with a high density of crystal-lattice defects prior to explosive loading, is considered. The stability of such structures to the action of shock waves depends on the presence of a developed system of large-angle subboundaries. If the material has a high density of dislocations prior to explosive deformation but is not organized in blocks a with disordered boundaries, explosive loading transforms the structure so that such boundaries are created, analogously to structures after large degrees a of ordinary plastic deformation.