One of the main characteristics of materials science is that it deals with properties which often deviate from linear relationships when compared with such parameters as temperature, pressure, and concentration. The reasons for this behavior of materials are twofold: the speed of linear reaction can vary greatly, and abrupt changes may occur in the static or dynamic states of self-organisation.

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Preface Lamellar Eutectic Growth Patterns.A Survey of Recent Observations in the CBr4-C2Cl6 System Dendritic Melting in a Crystal Volume On the Theory of Lamellar Eutectic Growth Microscopic Simulation of a Wavefront Propagating into an Unstable State:Internal Fluctuation Effects Liquid-Vapor Coexistence in Binary Mixtures:Atomistic Simulations and One-Fluid Approximations Morphological Instabilities in Bilayers Incorporating Polycristalline Silicon Elastically-Induced Precipitate Shape Transitions in Coherent Solids Phases Equilibrium and Diffusion in Solids with Plate-Like Geometry Peculiarities of Intermediate Phase Nucleation in the Process of Chemical Diffusion Radiation-Induced Amorphization in Intermetallic Compounds Microscopic Simulation Approach to Amorphization by Chemical Disorder Latent Track in Magnetic Insulators:Electronic Stopping Power Threshold and Damage Morphology Stability of Driven Compounds:Stochastic and Deterministic Descriptions Radiation-Induced Microstructural Pattern Formation Self-Organization of Defect Structures under High-Temperature Irradiation-A Theory of Void Lattices Self-Organization of Defect Structures under Low-Temperature Irradiation-A Theory of Stacking-Fault-Tetrahedron Lattices Some Problems in the Physics of Void Lattices Mechanical Attrition of Intermetallic Compounds Influence of Milling Conditions on the Formation of Metastable Phases: The Crystal to Amorphous Transition On the Instability of Dislocation Microstructures during Plastic Deformation Mesoscopic Obersvations Related to Twinning Instabilities in Alpha Cu-Al Crystals The Flow Law of Mild Steel under Monotonic or Complex Strain Path Plastic Instabilities in AlLi Alloys Some Physical Effects at Unstable Localized Shear and Fracture of Amorphous Alloys Ribbons On the Gradient Approach to Deformation Patterning and Fracture A Model of Formation of Dipolar Dislocation Structures Coherent Propagative Structures in Plastic Deformation: A Theory of Lüders Bands in Polycrystals The Propagation of the Portevin-Le Chatelier Deformation Bands Dislocation Dynamics and Chaos Non-Linear Dynamics of Shear Crack Interaction with Dislocations A Simulation of Dislocation Patterning Derived from Cellular Automata Dislocation Microstructures and Plastic Flow: A 3D Simulation Numerical Simulations of Shear Bands in Idealized Granular Materials Fractal Description of Fractures Flux Pinning in Type II Superconductors Viewed as a Plasticity Problem