A class of auxetic three-dimensional lattices

We propose a class of auxetic three-dimensional lattice structures. The elastic microstructure can be designed to have an omnidirectional Poisson's ratio arbitrarily close to the stability limit of −1. The cubic behaviour of the periodic system has been fully characterized; the minimum and maximum Poisson's ratio and the associated principal directions are given as a function of the microstructural parameters.The initial microstructure is then modified into a body-centred cubic system that can achieve Poisson's ratio lower than −1 and that can also behave as an isotropic three-dimensional auxetic structure.     

Waterhammer modelling of viscoelastic pipes with a time-dependent Poisson's ratio

Poisson's ratio in viscoelastic materials is a function of time. However, recently developed waterhammer models of viscoelastic pipes consider it constant. This simplifying assumption avoids cumbersome calculations of double convolution integrals which appear if Poisson's ratio is time-dependent. The present research develops a mathematical model taking the time dependency of Poisson's ratio into account for linear viscoelastic pipes. Poisson's ratio is written in terms of relaxation function and bulk modulus which is assumed to be constant. The relaxation function is obtained from creep function given as the viscoelastic property data of pipe material. The results obtained from the present waterhammer model are compared with the experimental data for two different flow rates. The comparison reveals that with the application of the time-dependent Poisson's ratio and unsteady friction, the viscoelastic data of mechanical tests can directly be used for waterhammer analysis with less need for the calibration of the flow configuration. It was also shown that the creep curve calibrated based on the present model is closer to the actual creep curve than that calibrated based on previous models.     

EFFECTS OF POISSON’S RATIO ON SCALING LAW IN HERTZIAN FRACTURE

In this paper the Auerbach＇s scaling law of Hertzian fracture induced by a spherical indenter pressing on a brittle solid is studied. In the analysis, the singular integral equation method is used to analyze the fracture behavior of the Hertzian contact problem. The results show that the Auerbach＇s constant sensitively depends on the Poisson＇s ratio, and the effective Auerbach＇s domain is also determined for a given value of the Poisson＇s ratio.     

An analytical solution for a linear viscoelastic layer loaded with a cylindrical punch: Evaluation of the rebound indentation test with application for assessing viability of articular cartilage

A general closed-form solution for the so-called rebound indentation test’ is obtained for a cylindrical flat-ended punch indenting a linear viscoelastic layer lying on a rigid substrate. Under the assumption of time-independent Poisson's ratio, we derive closed-form analytical expressions for the contact force (in a displacement controlled regime) and for the indentation displacement (in a load-controlled regime) and we consider in detail the case of standard viscoelastic solid. Our results indicate that the rebound displacement (in other words the indentation displacement in the load-controlled stage) is independent of the relaxed elastic modulus and Poisson's ratio, and also of the layer's thickness. Our analytical solution can be used for layered samples of arbitrary materials exhibiting viscoelastic properties; however, since the rebound indentation test has been recently suggested for assessing the viability of biomedical materials, we have applied our theoretical framework to the identification of materials parameters from experiments on articular cartilage. In this context, we have found a pretty good agreement for the rebound deformation, even until the strain becomes relatively large.     

On a 2D hydro-mechanical lattice approach for modelling hydraulic fracture

A 2D lattice approach to describe hydraulic fracturing is presented. The interaction of fluid pressure and mechanical response is described by Biot's theory. The lattice model is applied to the analysis of a thick-walled cylinder, for which an analytical solution for the elastic response is derived. The numerical results obtained with the lattice model agree well with the analytical solution. Furthermore, the coupled lattice approach is applied to the fracture analysis of the thick-walled cylinder. It is shown that the proposed lattice approach provides results that are independent of the mesh size. Moreover, a strong geometrical size effect on nominal strength is observed which lies between analytically derived lower and upper bounds. This size effect decreases with increasing Biot's coefficient.     

STRENGTH CRITERION FOR PLAIN CONCRETE UNDER MULTIAXIAL STRESS BASED ON DAMAGE POISSON＇S RATIO

A new unified strength criterion in the principal stress space has been proposed for use with normal strength concrete （NC） and high strength concrete （HSC） in compressioncompression-tension, compression-tension-tension, triaxial tension, and biaxial stress states. The study covers concrete with strengths ranging from 20 to 130 MPa. The conception of damage Poisson＇s ratio is defined and the expression for damage Poisson＇s ratio is determined basically. The failure mechanism of concrete is illustrated, which points out that damage Poisson＇s ratio is the key to determining the failure of concrete. Furthermore, for the concrete under biaxial stress conditions, the unified strength criterion is simplified and a simplified strength criterion in the form of curves is also proposed. The strength criterion is physically meaningful and easy to calculate, which can be applied to analytic solution and numerical solution of concrete structures.     

Finite Deflection of Skew Sandwich Plates on Elastic Foundations by the Galerkin Method

ABSTRACT

Application of the Galerkin method to various fluid and structural mechanics problems that are governed by a single linear or nonlinear differential equation is well known [1-5]. Recently, the method has been extended to finite element formulations [6-10], In this paper the suitability of the Galerkin method for solution of large deflection problems of plates is studied. The method is first applied to investigate large deflection behavior of clamped isotropic plates on elastic foundations. After validity of the method is established, it is then extended to analyze problems of large deflection of clamped skew sandwich plates, both with and without elastic foundations. The plates are considered to be subjected to uniformly distributed loads. The governing differential equations for the sandwich plate in terms of displacements in Cartesian coordinates are first established and then transformed into skew coordinates. The nonlinear differential equations of the plates are then transformed into nonlinear algebraic equations, using the Galerkin method. These equations are solved using a Newton-Raphson iterative procedure. The parameters considered herein for large deflection behavior of skew sandwich plates are the aspect ratio of the plate, Poisson's ratio, skew angle, shearing stiffnesses of the core, and foundation moduli. Numerical results are presented for skew sandwich plates for various skew angles and aspect ratios. Simplicity and quick convergence are the advantages of the method, in comparison with other much more laborious numerical methods that require extensive computer facilities.     

Elastic–plastic behavior of non-woven fibrous mats

Electrospinning is a novel method for creating non-woven polymer mats that have high surface area and high porosity. These attributes make them ideal candidates for multifunctional composites. Understanding the mechanical properties as a function of fiber properties and mat microstructure can aid in designing these composites. Further, a constitutive model which captures the membrane stress–strain behavior as a function of fiber properties and the geometry of the fibrous network would be a powerful design tool. Here, mats electrospun from amorphous polyamide are used as a model system. The elastic–plastic behavior of single fibers are obtained in tensile tests. Uniaxial monotonic and cyclic tensile tests are conducted on non-woven mats. The mat exhibits elastic–plastic stress–strain behavior. The transverse strain behavior provides important complementary data, showing a negligible initial Poisson's ratio followed by a transverse:axial strain ratio greater than ?1:1 after an axial strain of 0.02. A triangulated framework has been developed to emulate the fibrous network structure of the mat. The micromechanically based model incorporates the elastic–plastic behavior of single fibers into a macroscopic membrane model of the mat. This representative volume element based model is shown to capture the uniaxial elastic–plastic response of the mat under monotonic and cyclic loading. The initial modulus and yield stress of the mat are governed by the fiber properties, the network geometry, and the network density. The transverse strain behavior is linked to discrete deformation mechanisms of the fibrous mat structure including fiber alignment, fiber bending, and network consolidation. The model is further validated in comparison to experiments under different constrained axial loading conditions and found to capture the constraint effect on stiffness, yield, post-yield hardening, and post-yield transverse strain behavior. Due to the direct connection between microstructure and macroscopic behavior, this model should be extendable to other electrospun systems and other two dimensional random fibrous networks.     

Analytical parametric analysis of the contact problem of human buttocks and negative Poisson's ratio foam cushions

Analytical investigations on the contact problems between two homogeneous and isotropic soft bodies were performed to simulate the contact of human buttocks and seat cushions. The cushion materials' Poisson's ratio were allowed to be negative. The human buttocks were modeled as an ideal sphere with radius 15 cm, and assumed to have a low Young's modulus and a Poisson's ratio close to 0.5. These parameters were held constant during our analysis. Peak contact pressure was reduced by adjusting the contour curvature of cushions according to Hertz theory, as expected. Moreover, analysis by both the Hertz model and a finite thickness 3D elasticity model showed that using negative Poisson's ratio cushions could further reduce the pressure. Negative Poisson's ratio cushions may be beneficial in the prevention of pressure sores or ulcers in the sick and in reduction of pressure-induced discomfort in seated people.     

Thermal shock resistance behavior of a functionally graded ceramic: Effects of finite cooling rate

This work presents a semi-analytical model to explore the effects of cooling rate on the thermal shock resistance behavior of a functionally graded ceramic (FGC) plate with a periodic array of edge cracks. The FGC is assumed to be a thermally heterogeneous material with constant elastic modulus and Poisson's ratio. The cooling rate applied at the FGC surface is modeled using a linear ramp function. An integral equation method and a closed form asymptotic temperature solution are employed to compute the thermal stress intensity factor (TSIF). The thermal shock residual strength and critical thermal shock of the FGC plate are obtained using the SIF criterion. Thermal shock simulations for an Al₂O₃/Si₃N₄ FGC indicate that a finite cooling rate leads to a significantly higher critical thermal shock than that under the sudden cooling condition. The residual strength, however, is relatively insensitive to the cooling rate.     

Determination of young's modulus or Poisson's ratio using eddy currents

Combined a-c and d-c magnetic fields cause strains in a conducting sample. The amplitude of this strain is dependent on the value of Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio. The strain amplitude, being in the order of 10 pm, can be measured with a stabilized Michelson interferometer, described elsewhere.^1,2 An expression is derived, relating the axial strain in cylindrical samples to the magnetic-field quantities, the elastic properties and the electrical resistivity of the sample. The finite-element method is used to treat more complicated configurations. Samples of aluminum, copper, gold and tin are used for comparing the measured and calculated results. To this end, the elastic properties of the copper samples were also determined from measurement of the ultrasonic-wave velocity. The agreement between both methods is very satisfactory.     

Numerical perturbation method for approximate solution of poisson's equation on a moderately deforming grid

In problems such as the computation of incompressible flows with moving boundaries, it may be necessary to solve Poisson's equation on a large sequence of related grids. In this paper the LU decomposition of the matrix A ₀ representing Poisson's equation discretized on one grid is used to efficiently obtain an approximate solution on a perturbation of that grid. Instead of doing an LU decomposition of the new matrix A , the RHS is perturbed by a Taylor expansion of A ^?1 about A ₀. Each term in the resulting series requires one ‘backsolve’ using the original LU . Tests using Laplace's equation on a square/rectangle deformation look promising; three and seven correction terms for deformations of 20% and 40% respectively yielded better than 1% accuracy. As another test, Poisson's equation was solved in an ellipse (fully developed flow in a duct) of aspect ratio 2/3 by perturbing about a circle; one correction term yielded better than 1% accuracy. Envisioned applications other than the computation of unsteady incompressible flow include: three-dimensional parabolic problems in tubes of varying cross-section, use of ‘elimination’ techniques other than LU decomposition, and the solution of PDEs other than Poisson's equation.     

Evaluation of high-elongation foil strain gages for measuring cyclic plastic strains

The behavior of a certain type of high-elongation foil strain gages (l/32-in. gage length) was checked against the indications of a clip-on extensometer under conditions of cyclic plastic strain (strain range 0.5 percent to 2.8 percent). The gages exhibited limited capability of measuring cyclic plastic strains. Transverse and axial strain measurements by means of the gages enabled determination of Poisson's ratio for elastic and plastic conditions. Results are tabulated and discussed.     

Modified virtual internal bond model based on deformable Voronoi particles

In last time, the series of virtual internal bond model was proposed for solving rock mechanics problems. In these models, the rock continuum is considered as a structure of discrete particles connected by normal and shear springs(bonds). It is well announced that the normal springs structure corresponds to a linear elastic solid with a fixed Poisson ratio, namely, 0.25 for threedimensional cases. So the shear springs used to represent the diversity of the Poisson ratio.However, the shearing force calculation is not rotationally invariant and it produce difficulties in application of these models for rock mechanics problems with sufficient displacements. In this letter, we proposed the approach to support the diversity of the Poisson ratio that based on usage of deformable Voronoi cells as set of particles. The edges of dual Delaunay tetrahedralization are considered as structure of normal springs(bonds). The movements of particle's centers lead to deformation of tetrahedrals and as result to deformation of Voronoi cells. For each bond, there are the corresponded dual face of some Voronoi cell. We can consider the normal bond as some beam and in this case, the appropriate face of Voronoi cell will be a cross section of this beam. If during deformation the Voronoi face was expand, then, according Poisson effect, the length of bond should be decrees. The above mechanism was numerically investigated and we shown that it is acceptable for simulation of elastic behavior in 0.1–0.3 interval of Poisson ratio. Unexpected surprise is that proposed approach give possibility to simulate auxetic materials with negative Poisson's ratio in interval from –0.5 to –0.1.     

Singularities in auxetic elastic bimaterials

In this paper we study the effects of negative Poisson's ratios on elastic problems containing singularities. Materials with a negative Poisson's ratio are termed auxetic. We present a brief review of such materials. The elasticity problem of a bimateral wedge is presented, then two particular cases of this problem are investigated: the free-edge problem and the interface crack problem. We study the effect on the stress singularity due to one portion of the bimaterial becoming auxetic. We find that the auxetic material has a significant effect on the singularity order, even causing the singularity to vanish for certain values of the elastic constants.     

Effect of porosity on the properties of strain localization in porous media under undrained conditions

Within the general framework of mixture theory and by introducing the fictitious “fluid phase” as a mixture of a liquid and a gas, the conditions for localization of deformation into a shear band in the incremental response of partially saturated and fully saturated elastic–plastic porous media under undrained conditions are derived. The effect of porosity is included in the derivation. The explicit analytical expressions of the direction of shear band initiation and the corresponding hardening modulus of the porous media for the plane strain case are deduced, and a parametric analysis is made of the influence of the porosity on the properties of strain localization based on Mohr–Coulomb yield criterion. It is found that the dependence of the shear banding properties of partially saturated porous media on the porosity is related to the stress states and Poisson's ratio. However, the properties of the strain localization for the fully saturated porous media are almost independent of Poisson's ratio. Finally, on the basis of Mohr–Coulomb yield criterion, some solutions of the shear banding orientation for water-saturated granular materials are obtained, which are proved to be in good agreement with the experimental results reported by other researchers.     

Multiscale structural design of columns made of regular octet-truss lattice material

This paper focuses on the structural design of the microscopic architecture of a lattice material with regular octet-truss cell topology and on the multiscale design of an axially loaded member manufactured of this type of cellular solid. The rationale followed here hinges on the coincidence of the failure modes of a stretching dominated lattice material, which experiences two types of microscopic failure modes, namely, elastic buckling and plastic yielding. A lattice material that fails by the elastic buckling of its cell elements without reaching the plastic yielding is far from optimum. To avoid this event and improve the material strength, we first start to tailor the structural efficiencies of the cell elements. We show that by shaping the cell element cross-sections, the lattice material buckling resistance can increase until it equals the cell element yield strength, thereby exploiting fully the lattice material strength. The coincidence of these two failure modes is the structural criterion used to develop selection charts for the micro-structural design of the octet-truss lattice material. In the second part of the paper, we examine the design of a structural column manufactured by regular octet-truss lattice material. We show that to maximize the structural failure resistance at both the structural and the material levels, the global buckling and the yielding failure of the column must occur simultaneously with the microscopic failure modes of the lattice material, namely the local buckling and the yielding of its microscopic cell elements. The paper concludes by illustrating how the micro-truss geometry and the column cross-section can be simultaneously designed to fully exploit the strength of the material and the overall macrostructure.     

On the measurement of Poisson's ratio for modeling clay

Resonance testing of Plasticine clay indicates that, for small strains (≤10^?5) in the frequency range 100–3000 Hz, the material can be considered to be a linear viscoelastic solid with parameters which depend on temperature, frequency and prior large-strain history. In order to measure Poisson's ratio, it is necessary to take special precautions to eliminate large straining between small-strain tests of different tensorial character. A simple but effective test configuration for measuring Poisson's ratio is described and test results are displayed.     

单轴压缩条件下溶蚀礁灰岩细观变形破坏特征研究

礁灰岩的溶蚀对海洋工程和岛礁工程的稳定性有明显的影响.孔隙型溶蚀是礁灰岩常见的溶蚀方式.本文通过构建随机溶蚀孔洞的离散元模型,模拟孔洞型溶蚀礁灰岩的细观变形破坏特征,分析其变形破坏规律与裂隙演化特征.结果 表明,基于随机聚类算法构建的溶蚀礁灰岩离散元模型能够很好地模拟孔洞型溶蚀作用,且其变形破坏特征具有明显的规律;随着溶蚀率的增加,溶蚀礁灰岩单轴应力应变曲线由单峰型逐渐转变为双峰型或多峰型,破坏特征由脆性破坏逐渐转变为塑性破坏;随着溶蚀率的增加,礁灰岩单轴抗压强度和弹性模量都逐渐减小,抗压强度呈指数函数下降,弹性模量呈线性函数下降,而泊松比则表现为先增后降,说明试样在高溶蚀率时主要发生结构性破坏;随着溶蚀率增加,礁灰岩的宏观破裂面逐渐消失,由于溶蚀孔洞的相互作用,导致了起源于孔洞周围的裂隙开始萌生,并逐渐贯通,最终导致试样发生整体宏观破坏.本研究成果可为深入认识海洋工程和岛礁工程中溶蚀礁灰岩的变形破坏特征提供理论参考.     

Dynamic coupling of fluid and structural mechanics for simulating particle motion and interaction in high speed compressible gas particle laden flow

In this work, structural finite element analyses of particles moving and interacting within high speed compressible flow are directly coupled to computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer analyses to provide more detailed and improved simulations of particle laden flow under these operating conditions. For a given solid material model, stresses and displacements throughout the solid body are determined with the particle–particle contact following an element to element local spring force model and local fluid induced forces directly calculated from the finite volume flow solution. Plasticity and particle deformation common in such a flow regime can be incorporated in a more rigorous manner than typical discrete element models where structural conditions are not directly modeled. Using the developed techniques, simulations of normal collisions between two 1 mm radius particles with initial particle velocities of 50–150 m/s are conducted with different levels of pressure driven gas flow moving normal to the initial particle motion for elastic and elastic–plastic with strain hardening based solid material models. In this manner, the relationships between the collision velocity, the material behavior models, and the fluid flow and the particle motion and deformation can be investigated. The elastic–plastic material behavior results in post collision velocities 16–50% of their pre-collision values while the elastic-based particle collisions nearly regained their initial velocity upon rebound. The elastic–plastic material models produce contact forces less than half of those for elastic collisions, longer contact times, and greater particle deformation. Fluid flow forces affect the particle motion even at high collision speeds regardless of the solid material behavior model. With the elastic models, the collision force varied little with the strength of the gas flow driver. For the elastic–plastic models, the larger particle deformation and the resulting increasingly asymmetric loading lead to growing differences in the collision force magnitudes and directions as the gas flow strength increased. The coupled finite volume flow and finite element structural analyses provide a capability to capture the interdependencies between the interaction of the particles, the particle deformation, the fluid flow and the particle motion.