Shock fracture mechanisms of different scales were investigated on epoxy composite materials reinforced with silicon carbide microparticles of different concentrations. It is shown that the high heterogeneity of the epoxy composites at different structural scales is one of the factors responsible for their physical and mechanical properties. Under dynamic loading, the material reveals a developed structural scale hierarchy which provides self-consistent deformation and fracture of the material bulk with the lead of rotational deformation modes. As a result, microcracks develop due to low shear strain limited in addition by reinforcing particles. At the start of a main crack, microscale mechanisms dominate, whereas the propagation of its front is governed by macroscale fracture mechanisms.

The paper studies the formation of strain-induced roughness on an initially flat surface of materials with a modified surface layer in tension. The dynamic boundary value problem of mechanics is solved numerically by the finite difference method for plane strain. The curvilinear surface layer substrate interface is specified explicitly in the calculations. The mechanical response of the steel substrate and surface layer is described by elastoplastic models with isotropic hardening and elastic-brittle fracture models, respectively. The surface roughness shape and amplitude are found to depend on the thickness of both elastic and high-strength plastic layers with sinusoidal geometry of the hardened layer-substrate interface.