In spite of the significant amount of scientific publications on the impact of fields on structural properties of nonmagnetic materials, investigations of structures of materials subjected to electromagnetic actions are relevant. The purpose of the paper is review and analysis of the state-of-the-art developments on the impact of electromagnetic fields that differ in power and nature. Analysis of the studied outputs enabled to conclude that direct contactless inertia-free effect on the material structure and dynamics of its defects at various levels. It was defined that the use of automated systems of research process management is difficult.

The competitiveness and longevity of machines and mechanisms are a vital task of modern industry. Its solution is based on research of methods that uniquely create a structure with specified physical and mechanical properties. Modern studies of promising methods involve the use of a large number of fields of different nature. Due to this, the goal of this article is the analysis of scientific and practical information in the field of the modification of various materials with the help of electric and magnetic fields. In the paper, the authors argue that the use of fields can significantly increase the energy of ionized particles. As a result, it was found that the effect of electromagnetic waves leads to a reduction and increase in the microhardness of the surface by approximately a factor of 2, and the rate of growth of the hardened surface layer increases.