超导磁体等效材料参数的有限元预测

HT—7U超导托卡马克装置中纵场超导磁体是由多种材料组成的且具有周期性分布的大型复杂的重要结构，对其宏观等效材料参数的准确掌握在其结构设计阶段是十分重要的。本文着重介绍了利用小参数展开的渐近均匀化方法对其进行等效处理的过程，并采用有限元方法预测出其等效弹性模量与热膨胀系数等，这些都为纵场磁体结构的力学计算与传热分析提供了必要的参数。     

Quench characteristics and mechanical responses during quench propagation in rare earth barium copper oxide pancake coils

Quench and mechanical behaviors are critical issues in high temperature superconducting(HTS)coils.In this paper,the quench characteristics in the rare earth barium copper oxide(REBCO)pancake coil at 4.2K are analyzed,and a two-dimensional(2D)axisymmetric electro-magneto-thermal model is presented.The effects of the constituent materials,background field,and coil size are analyzed.An elastoplastic mechanical model is used to study the corresponding mechanical responses during the quench propagation.The variations of the temperature and strain in superconducting layers are compared.The results indicate that the radial strain evolutions can reflect the transverse quench propagation and the tensile hoop and radial stresses in superconducting layers increase with the quench propagation.The possible damages are discussed with the consideration of the effects of the background field and coil size.It is concluded that the high background field significantly increases the maximum tensile hoop and radial stresses in quenching coils and local damage may be caused.     

A finite deformation stress-dependent chemical potential and its applications to lithium ion batteries

This paper reports the development of a new stress-dependent chemical potential for solid state diffusion under multiple driving forces including mechanical stresses. The new stress-dependent chemical potential accounts for nonlinear, inelastic, and finite deformation. By using this stress-dependent chemical potential, insertion and extraction of lithium ions into a silicon particle is investigated. The distribution and evolution of diffusion-induced stress during the insertion/extraction processes are numerically calculated. Critical particle size is obtained as a function of the charging/discharging rates. It is also found that when plastic deformation occurs, the hoop stresses on the particle surface, contrary to intuition, can become positive even during the charging process, which may explain some of the recent experimental observations.     

Buckling behavior of a superconducting magnet coil

The buckling behavior of a superconducting magnet coil has been investigated for out of plane perturbations. It has been shown that such a coil becomes unstable due to its own magnetic field for out of plane bending at the operating values of electric currents. A technique devised by the author that computes the inductance change due to deformation, has been incorporated in this study. The evaluation shows that although the magnetic fields external to the coil are important and that there is additional structural stiffness provided by the surrounding structure, the effects of the self magnetic field should be evaluated and incorporated in the design of such coils. However, based on previous studies, both analytical and experimental, it has been established that the out-of-plane deformation is the most critical mode from a stability standpoint. Therefore, this mode has been exclusively addressed in this study.     

Nb3Sn超导线圈力学性能精确分析的双向均质化方法

Nb₃Sn超导磁体运行时产生很高磁场, Nb₃Sn超导线圈会受到很强电磁体力的作用, 从而会产生很大的力学应变. 由于Nb₃Sn超导材料的应变敏感性, 会使得Nb₃Sn磁体线圈的临界性能退化, 这对磁体的安全稳定运行造成极大影响, 所以精确计算超导磁体在电磁体力下的力学行为具有重要的科学意义. Nb₃Sn超导磁体主要是由超导线绕制成线圈结构再经过环氧树脂固化而成, Nb₃Sn超导线是主要由多根微米级的超导芯丝、铜形成的复合结构, 所以从超导芯丝到超导磁体其尺寸跨越了几个数量级, 从而给精确分析超导线圈力学变形带来挑战. 本文首先采用代表性单元均质化方法分析了整体线圈的等效力学参数, 通过对比等效均质化模型与线圈真实结构的计算结果, 发现等效均质化模型存在很大的误差. 因此, 提出一种高精度而且计算代价低的双向均质化分析方法, 研究超导线圈内各组分材料(Nb₃Sn芯丝、铜和环氧树脂)应力-应变分布. 该方法不需要进行大规模的数值建模, 并且与真实复合线圈下的结果对比吻合很好, 由此验证了该方法的有效性和准确性. 最后基于提出的双向均质化分析方法, 详细讨论了Nb₃Sn超导线圈各层材料在电磁力作用下应力-应变随匝数和层数的变化规律.      

Model for charge/discharge-rate-dependent plastic flow in amorphous battery materials

Plastic flow is an important mechanism for relaxing stresses that develop due to swelling/shrinkage during charging/discharging of battery materials. Amorphous high-storage-capacity Li–Si has lower flow stresses than crystalline materials but there is evidence that the plastic flow stress depends on the conditions of charging and discharging, indicating important non-equilibrium aspects to the flow behavior. Here, a mechanistically-based constitutive model for rate-dependent plastic flow in amorphous materials, such as Li_xSi alloys, during charging and discharging is developed based on two physical concepts: (i) excess energy is stored in the material during electrochemical charging and discharging due to the inability of the amorphous material to fully relax during the charging/discharging process and (ii) this excess energy reduces the barriers for plastic flow processes and thus reduces the applied stresses necessary to cause plastic flow. The plastic flow stress is thus a competition between the time scales of charging/discharging and the time scales of glassy relaxation. The two concepts, as well as other aspects of the model, are validated using molecular simulations on a model Li–Si system. The model is applied to examine the plastic flow behavior of typical specimen geometries due to combined charging/discharging and stress history, and the results generally rationalize experimental observations.     

A chemo-mechanical model coupled with thermal effect on the hollow core–shell electrodes in lithium-ion batteries

Electrode is a key component to remain durability and safety of lithium-ion(Li-ion) batteries. Li-ion insertion/removal and thermal expansion mismatch may induce high stress in electrode during charging and discharging processes. In this paper, we present a continuum model based on COMSOL Multiphysics software, which involves thermal, chemical and mechanical behaviors of electrodes. The results show that,because of diffusion-induced stress and thermal mismatch, the electrode geometry plays an important role in diffusion kinetics of Li-ions. A higher local compressive stress results in a lower Li-ion concentration and thus a lower capacity when a particle is embedded another, which is in agreement with experimental observations.     

高温超导带材多场特性测试系统研制进展(Ⅰ)

高温超导带材具有高的临界电流密度,高磁场下优异的载流特性以及良好的成型性在强电领域如高场磁体、超导电缆等方面应用潜力巨大。在其应用过程中,不可避免的低温-大电流-强磁场环境将对超导材料的载流能力产生影响,而加工过程中的残余应力以及洛伦兹力的存在会显著的降低超导材料的临界电流,造成相应超导装置功能性难以达到设计要求、且成为重要的安全隐患。本文介绍一种新型的适用于超导带材的力-磁-电多场耦合测试系统,该系统目前采用浸泡式制冷,可实现的主要功能有:(1)超导材料临界电流密度测试;(2)拉伸应变对超导带材临界电流的影响研究;(3)磁场对超导带材临界电流的影响研究;(4)力磁耦合情形下超导材料临界电流的变化规律;(5)超导材料磁通稳定性测试。该设备的成功研制将为我国先进超导材料研发提供基础测试平台。     

Electric-magnetic-force characteristics of rare earth barium copper oxide superconductor high-field coils based on screening effect and strain sensitivity

Rare earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) is the most researched and commercialized second-generation high-temperature superconducting material. Due to the anisotropic structure, strong deformation sensitivity, and central field errors caused by screening current effects, it is still a challenge for commercialization applications. In this study, the transversely isotropic constitutive relationship is selected as the mechanical model based on the structural characteristics of REBCO tapes, and suitable microelements are selected to equate the elastic constants using their average stress-strain relationships. Then, a two-dimensional axisymmetric model for coils wound by single-layer tapes is constructed to analyze the dependence of the electric-magnetic-force distribution in the tape on the strain. Finally, the anisotropic approximation of the homogenized bulk method is used to equate large-turn high-field coils, and the electric-magnetic-force distribution characteristics of the coils with/without screening effects and mechanical strain conditions are investigated, respectively. The results reveal that the mechanical strain has a weakening effect on the electromagnetic field distribution of superconducting tapes, but causes a significant enhancement in the force field distribution. In the presence of 0.5% mechanical strain, the maximum weakening of the peak value of the current density and the critical current density inside the high-field coil can reach about 8% and 13%, respectively, with a nearly 5 times increase in the peak stress. The screening current makes the current field distribution inside the coil improve by about 10 times. The screening current induced magnetic field can reach up to 0.8 T, making the relative error of the high-field coil center up to 7.8%.     

Experimental investigation on performance of ice storage air-conditioning system with separate heat pipe

An experimental study on operation performance of ice storage air-conditioning system with separate helical heat pipe is conducted in this paper. The experimental system of ice storage air-conditioning system with separate heat pipe is set up. The performance parameters such as the evaporation pressure and the condensation pressure of refrigeration system, the refrigeration capacity and the COP (coefficient of performance) of the system, the IPF (ice packing factor) and the cool storage capacity in the cool storage tank during charging period, and the cool discharge rate and the cool discharge capacity in the cool storage tank, the outlet water temperature in the cool storage tank and the outlet air temperature in room unit during discharging period are investigated. The experimental results show that the ice storage air-conditioning system with separate helical heat pipe can stably work during charging and discharging period. This indicates that the ice storage air-conditioning system with separate helical heat pipe is well adapted to cool storage air-conditioning systems in building.     

Bending and buckling of superconducting partial toroidal field coils

Based on the theory of curved beams and the Biot–Savart law, a new theoretical model for magnetoelastic bending and buckling of superconducting toroidal field coils is developed and corroborated numerically. In contrast to the existing models, this model incorporates in-plane deformation of the coil. A semi-analytical approach is used to obtain the solution to the coupled problem. In order to validate the model and associated solution method, the experiment of Miya et al., 1982 is modeled. The theoretical predictions of the critical current of coils with none or one pin support are shown to be in excellent agreement with the published experimental data. It is also shown that the in-plane deformation has a significant influence on the critical current.     

针对磁通蠕动效应的超导悬浮动力运动比较研究

针对超导-永磁悬浮系统,分别采用描述超导宏观电磁场本构关系的磁通流动模型和磁通流动与蠕动模型,定量模拟了自由悬浮于超导体上方永磁体的振动。通过比较研究说明磁通蠕动效应对超导悬浮动力运动的影响程度以及这一影响随超导临界电流密度、系统外加激励振幅和频率的变化规律。     

An analysis for imperfect sensitivity of a superconducting rod

On the basis of the interaction between the electromagnetic field and a solid, the imperfect sensitivity of a superconducting rod is studied in this paper. The influences of the initial deflection of the rod and the initial magnetic field on the stability are discussed. One can see that the bifurcation response of the rod with imperfections is similar to the universal unfolding of the fork bifurcation from the singularity theory.Project supported by the Foundation of the State Education Commission of China and the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province.     

Influence of heat transfer and fluid flow on crack growth in multilayered porous/dense materials using XFEM: Application to Solid Oxide Fuel Cell like material design

An advanced numerical model is developed to investigate the influence of heat transfer and fluid flow on crack propagation in multi-layered porous materials. The fluid flow, governed by the Navier–Stokes and Darcy’s law, is discretized with the nonconforming Crouzeix–Raviart (CR) finite element method. A combination of Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) and Multi-Point Flux Approximation (MPFA) methods is used to solve the advection–diffusion heat transfer equation in the flow channel and in the fluid phase within the porous material. The crack is assumed to affect only the heat diffusion within the porous layer, therefore a time splitting technique is used to solve the heat transfer in the fluid and the solid phases separately. Thus, within the porous material, the crack induces a discontinuity of the temperature at the crack surfaces and a singularity of the flux at the crack tip. Conduction in the solid phase is solved using the eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) to better handle the discontinuities and singularities caused by the cracks. The XFEM is also used to solve the thermo-mechanical problem and to track the crack propagation. The multi-physics model is implemented then validated for the transient regime, this necessitated a post processing treatment in which, the stress intensity factors (SIF) are computed for each time step. The SIFs are then used in the crack propagation criterion and the crack orientation angle. The methodology seems to be robust accurate and the computational cost is reduced thanks to the XFEM.     

Surface tension-induced stress concentration around an elliptical hole in an anisotropic half-plane

We examine the surface tension-induced stress concentration around an elliptical hole inside an anisotropic half-plane with traction-free surface. Using conformal mapping techniques, the corresponding complex potential in the half-plane is expressed in a series whose unknown coefficients are determined numerically. Our results indicate that the maximum hoop stress around the hole (which appears in the vicinity of the point of maximum curvature) increases rapidly with decreasing distance between the hole and the free surface. In particular, for an elliptical or even circular hole in an anisotropic half-plane we find that, with decreasing distance between the hole and the free surface, the hoop stress can switch from compressive to tensile at certain points on the hole's boundary and from tensile to compressive at others. This phenomenon is absent in the case of an elliptical or even circular hole in the corresponding case of an isotropic half-plane.     

Two-step homogenization for the effective thermal conductivities of twisted multi-filamentary superconducting strand

For the accurate prediction of the effective thermal conductivities of the twisted multi-filamentary superconducting strand, a two-step homogenization method is adopted. Based on the distribution of filaments, the superconducting strand can be decomposed into a set of concentric cylinder layers. Each layer is a two-phase composite composed of the twisted filaments and copper matrix. In the first step of homogenization, the representative volume element (RVE) based finite element (FE) homogenization method with the periodic boundary condition (PBC) is adopted to evaluate the effective thermal conductivities of each layer. In the second step of homogenization, the generalized self-consistent method is used to obtain the effective thermal conductivities of all the concentric cylinder layers. The accuracy of the developed model is validated by comparing with the local and full-field FE simulation. Finally, the effects of the twist pitch on the effective thermal conductivities of twisted multi-filamentary superconducting strand are studied.     

Effect of diffusion-induced bending on diffusion-induced stress near the end faces of an elastic hollow cylinder

Diffusion-induced stress plays an important role in determining structural integrity of mechanical structures used in lithium-ion batteries and microelectromechanical devices. Incorporating the diffusion-induced bending in the analysis of the diffusion-induced stress in an elastic hollow cylinder, analytical forms of the diffusion-induced resultant axial stress and hoop stress have been formulated for the traction-free condition and the built-in condition at the end faces of the cylinder. Using these results, the evolution of the diffusion-induced stress at the end faces of a hollow, elastic electrode due to the insertion of lithium is discussed under the potentiostatic operation. The end faces of the electrode experience compressive hoop stress through the thickness in contrast to the stress state in the hollow cylinder far away from the end faces. The magnitude of the resultant hoop stress decreases with increasing the diffusion time for the traction-free end faces; it increases with increasing the diffusion time near the inner surface for the built-in end faces.     

Nb3Sn单晶超导相转变时的弹性性能变化

Nb3Sn超导体失超，是超导磁体装备运行过程中的重要现象。失超，即超导体从超导相转变为正常相的过程；在强磁场超导磁体工程中，由于超高的储能密度，失超伴随着力/热/电等物理参量在瞬时的剧烈变化。失超瞬时，超导相转变的同时伴随着弹性力学性能的突变，研究超导相转变时弹性性能的变化是失超诱发应力跨尺度分析的关键。本文首先采用第一性原理方法计算了弹性常数随温度的变化规律，结果表明由于未考虑A15结构的超导材料在环境温度变化的情况下产生的特殊电子能带结构，基于准静态近似方法的材料弹性常数计算从0K外推至有限温度时，会导致模拟结果与实验观测结果出现定性上的差异；之后，基于晶格自由能函数，给出了描述立方相Nb3Sn单晶弹性性能随温度变化的解析模型，模型预测结果与实验观测结果定性吻合，初步实现了对Nb3Sn单晶超导相转变时弹性性能变化的理论描述和预测。研究结果对于超导体失超应力的跨尺度模拟及超导磁体的安全分析具有一定的理论参考价值。     

Modélisation du comportement thermique d'un outil de fraisage : approche par identification de système non entier

In this work we present an experimental apparatus devoted to the thermal characterisation of a milling tool. The experimental device used thermistors, one for each insert. Each thermistor is located at a point in the tool close to the tip of the insert. The heat flux in each insert is expressed according to the temperature at the sensor from a non-integer model. The parameters of the model are identified from transient evolutions measurements of the temperature on the sensor and on the cutting edge. An application shows the difference in the behaviour of each insert during machining from the estimated heat fluxes. To cite this article: J.-L. Battaglia et al., C. R. Mecanique 330 (2002) 857–864.     

HT-7U超导托卡马克装置极向场线圈的等效弹性常数及其残余刚度

HT－7装置的超导极向场线圈由导管，超导材料和绝缘体组合而成，具有复杂的正交各向异性的性质。本文从微观力学的观点出发，将极向场线圈整体作为一种复合材料来考虑，采用微观力学的复合律和损伤力学的细观损伤模型，求出了极向场线圈的等效弹性常数和残余刚度；并且，残余刚度的计算结果已得到了实验验证。这些材料特性已被用于有限元分析的输入数据。