The structural and thermodynamic features of the elastic–plastic transition in armco iron and its plastic deformation are studied. Energy storage in iron is shown to have a nonlinear character and be accompanied by wavelike heat dissipation. To describe the energy balance in the plastically deformed metal, a theoretical model is proposed based on a statistical description of the evolution of an ensemble of typical mesodefects (microshears). Moreover, a procedure is developed to experimentally determine the dependence of the potential of the medium on the mesodefect density using infrared scanning data.
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