多功能复合材料结构状态感知系统

由于具有比强度和比刚度高、可设计性强等优点,先进复合材料正在逐步成为新一代民用飞机的主要结构材料。为了充分利用复合材料的优越性能,有必要研发一种与复合材料结构集成一体的多功能传感系统,以使复合材料结构可以"感觉"和"思考"自身状态。本文提出一种类似于人体神经系统的多功能传感器网络系统,将不同功能的传感器有机结合起来,并与复合材料结构永久集成于一体,用来感知结构应变、温度、湿度、气动压力等参量,并监测发生在结构上的外界撞击及内部损伤。利用这一新概念设计和制造的未来复合材料结构可以提供多种模式的综合信息,从而使之具有智能传感、环境适应等多种功能。本文同时也讨论了发展这样一种多功能结构状态感知系统所面临的挑战与有关解决途径。     

Reflection of Lamb waves obliquely incident on the free edge of a plate

The reflection of obliquely incident symmetric and anti-symmetric Lamb wave modes at the edge of a plate is studied. Both in-plane and Shear-Horizontal (SH) reflected wave modes are spawned by an obliquely incident in-plane Lamb wave mode. Energy reflection coefficients are calculated for the reflected wave modes as a function of frequency and angle of incidence. This is done by using the method of orthogonal mode decomposition and by enforcing traction free conditions at the plate edge using the method of collocation. A PZT sensor network, affixed to an Aluminum plate, is used to experimentally verify the predictions of the analysis. Experimental results provide support for the analytically determined results.     

Study of stress-induced velocity variation in concrete under direct tensile force and monitoring of the damage level by using thermally-compensated Coda Wave Interferometry

In this paper, we describe an experimental study of concrete behavior under a uniaxial tensile load by use of the thermally-compensated Coda Wave Interferometry (CWI) analysis. Under laboratory conditions, uniaxial tensile load cycles are imposed on a cylindrical concrete specimen, with continuous ultrasonic measurements being recorded within the scope of bias control protocols. A thermally-compensated CWI analysis of multiple scattering waves is performed in order to evaluate the stress-induced velocity variation. Concrete behavior under a tensile load can then be studied, along with CWI results from both its elastic performance (acoustoelasticity) and plastic performance (microcracking corresponding to the Kaiser effect). This work program includes a creep test with a sustained, high tensile load; the acoustoelastic coefficients are estimated before and after conducting the creep test and then used to demonstrate the effect of creep load.     

Modeling nonlinearities of ultrasonic waves for fatigue damage characterization: Theory,simulation, and experimental validation

A dedicated modeling technique for comprehending nonlinear characteristics of ultrasonic waves traversing in a fatigued medium was developed, based on a retrofitted constitutive relation of the medium by considering the nonlinearities originated from material, fatigue damage, as well as the “breathing” motion of fatigue cracks. Piezoelectric wafers, for exciting and acquiring ultrasonic waves, were integrated in the model. The extracted nonlinearities were calibrated by virtue of an acoustic nonlinearity parameter. The modeling technique was validated experimentally, and the results showed satisfactory consistency in between, both revealing: the developed modeling approach is able to faithfully simulate fatigue crack-incurred nonlinearities manifested in ultrasonic waves; a cumulative growth of the acoustic nonlinearity parameter with increasing wave propagation distance exists; such a parameter acquired via a sensing path is nonlinearly related to the offset distance from the fatigue crack to that sensing path; and neither the incidence angle of the probing wave nor the length of the sensing path impacts on the parameter significantly. This study has yielded a quantitative characterization strategy for fatigue cracks using embeddable piezoelectric sensor networks, facilitating deployment of structural health monitoring which is capable of identifying small-scale damage at an embryo stage and surveilling its growth continuously.     

Free vibration analysis of Mindlin plates with linearly varying thickness

A method based on the variational principles in conjunction with the finite difference technique is applied to examine the free vibration characteristics of isotropic rectangular plates of linearly varying thickness by including the effects of transverse shear deformation and rotary inertia. The validity of the present approach is demonstrated by comparing the results with other solutions proposed for plates with uniform and linearly varying thickness. Natural frequencies and mode shapes of Mindlin plates with simply supported and clamped edges are determined for various values of relative thickness ratio and the taper thickness constant.     

Closed crack imaging using time reversal method based on fundamental and second harmonic scattering

A recent variant of time reversal imaging is employed for reconstructing images of a closed crack, based on both the fundamental and the second harmonic components of the longitudinal scattered field due to an incident longitudinal wave. The scattered field data are generated by a finite element model that includes unilateral contact with Coulomb friction between the crack faces to account for the Contact Acoustic Nonlinearity. The closure state of the crack is controlled by specifying a pre-stress between the crack faces. The knowledge of the scattered field at the fundamental (incident) frequency and the second harmonic frequency for multiple incident angles provides the required inputs for the imaging algorithm. It is shown that the image reconstructed from the fundamental harmonic closely matches the image that is obtained from scattering data in the absence of contact, although contact between the crack faces reduces the amplitude of the scattered field in the former case. The fundamental harmonic image is shown to provide very accurate estimates of crack length for low to moderate levels of pre-stress. The second harmonic image is also shown to provide acceptable estimates of crack length and the image is shown to correlate with the source location of second harmonic along the crack, which becomes increasingly localized near the crack tips for decreasing levels of pre-stress. The influence of the number of sensors on the image quality is also discussed in order to identify the minimum sensors number requirement. Finally, multiple frequency imaging is performed over a fixed bandwidth to assess the potential improvement of the imaging algorithm when considering broadband information.     

A turbulence characteristic length scale for compressible flows

The current RANS models are generally established and calibrated under incompressible condition and these kinds of models could succeed in predicting many features of incompressible flows. However, these models extended to the high-speed, compressible flows are always less accurate. In the paper, a compressible von Kármán length scale is proposed for compressible flows considering the variable densities. It contains no empirical coefficients and is based on phenomenological theory. In the turbulent kinetic equation, the extra unclosed terms induced by non-constant densities are treated as dissipation terms and the equation is closed algebraically via the introduction of the von Kármán length scale. The original and the proposed von Kármán length scale lead to two different kinds of SAS (scale adaption simulation) models, KDO (turbulence kinetic energy dependent only) and CKDO (compressible KDO), respectively. Compressible mixing layer with significant compressibility is studied within standard k–?, k–ω, KDO turbulence models and their compressible versions. The compressibility effects such as the reduced mixing layer thickness, growth rate and turbulence intensity can be reproduced by CKDO. The new length scale can improve the performances of the model in predicting the mixing layer thickness, stream-wise velocity and Reynolds shear stresses when the convective Mach number is 0.8. Besides, the new length scale also leads to accurate computed growth rate when the convective Mach number ranges from 0.1 to 1.0.     

Free vibration analysis of continuous orthotropic bridge decks

While studies of the free vibration problem of single span bridge slabs have been undertaken by a number of authors, literature on continuous span orthotropic bridge slabs is rather scarce. Furthermore, general continuous bridge deck problems have been dealt with by approximate methods only for specific types of boundary conditions. In this paper an attempt is made to formulate a general analytical solution which would be applicable to all types of boundary conditions. The solution developed is discussed here with special reference to “bridge type” boundary conditions. The analysis is based on the ordinary theory of thin plates and is formulated for linearly elastic materials with isotropic or orthotropic properties. A Levy-type series solution is employed and the problem of free vibration analysis of continuous isotropic and orthotropic bridge slabs is solved by using the principle of superposition. The solution is tested for convergence by varying the number of terms in the solution and the convergence is found to be excellent. Results obtained for continuous isotropic bridge decks are compared with published solutions and close agreements are found. For orthotropic bridge decks a similar comparison was not possible because of a lack of published results in the technical literature.     

结构健康监测技术及其在航空航天领域中的应用

对飞行器结构中的裂纹、腐蚀、脱层、材料性能退化及其它损伤进行及时且准确的检测是确保服役飞行器安全可靠运行的必要手段。结构健康监测是确定结构完整性的革命性创新技术,它在飞行器的结构设计、飞行及维护过程中都可发挥重要作用,它的使用可以提高飞行安全性、降低维护成本。本文简要介绍结构健康监测的系统组成、基本原理及关键技术,并通过实例阐述了基于智能层的结构健康监测技术在飞行器上的应用情况。