The paper deals with an extended, physically based, multiaxial constitutive model of discontinuous plastic flow, including new feature of strain localization at near 0 K temperatures in polycrystalline materials.
Another new feature defines the drop of stress being entirely determined by dislocations density before and after the serration.
Regular way of nucleation and free unconstrained glide of slip bands is observed within the sample, in the absence of phase transformation.
Contrary to former views, strong coupling of discontinuous plastic flow with fcc-bcc phase transformation in metastable materials is observed.