THEORY OF DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS

In response to a stimulus, a soft material deforms, and the deformation provides a function. We call such a material a soft active material （SAM）. This review focuses on one class of soft active materials： dielectric elastomers. When a membrane of a dielectric elastomer is subject to a voltage through its thickness, the membrane reduces thickness and expands area, possibly straining over 100%. The dielectric elastomers are being developed as transducers for broad applications, including soft robots, adaptive optics, Braille displays, and electric generators. This paper reviews the theory of dielectric elastomers, developed within continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, and motivated by molecular pictures and empirical observations. The theory couples large deformation and electric potential, and describes nonlinear and nonequilibrium behavior, such as electromechanical instability and viscoelasticity. The theory enables the finite element method to simulate transducers of realistic configurations, predicts the efficiency of electromechanical energy conversion, and suggests alternative routes to achieve giant voltage-induced deformation. It is hoped that the theory will aid in the creation of materials and devices.     

Approximate expressions and the relationship between pyramidalization (out‐of‐plane deformation) characteristics of trigonal centers

Fairly accurate approximate expressions for commonly used characteristics of non‐planarity of trigonal sp²‐hybridized centers are reported. It is shown that the behavior of all these parameters as a function of bond angles (α, β, γ) is determined primarily by the square‐root of the difference [360° ? (α + β + γ)]. This quantity is proposed as a new versatile measure of pyramidalization. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Mechanics of stretchable electronics on balloon catheter under extreme deformation

Stretchable electronics has been applied to balloon catheters for high-efficacy ablation, with tactile sensing integrated on the surface, to establish full and conformal contact with the endocardial surface for elimination of the heart sink caused by blood flow around their surfaces. The balloon of the catheter folds into uniform ‘clover’ patterns driven by the pressure mismatch inside (∼vacuum) and outside of the balloon (pressure ∼1 atm). The balloon catheter, on which microelectrodes and interconnects are printed, undergoes extreme mechanical deformation during its inflation and deflation. An analytic solution is obtained for balloon catheter inflation and deflation, which gives analytically the distribution of curvatures and the maximum strain in the microelectrodes and interconnects. The analytic solution is validated by the finite element analysis. It also accounts for the effect of inflated radius, and is very useful to the optimal design of balloon catheter.     

A physical mechanism based investigation on the elasto-plastic-damage behavior of anisotropic aluminum alloys under finite deformation

The elasto-plastic-damage behavior of anisotropic aluminum alloys is investigated under finite deformation using a physical mechanism based constitutive model. With an application to the structural calculation, the present model is used to describe and analyze the mechanical response of anisotropic 6260-T6 aluminum alloy extrusions. For the tensile specimens extracted along three different material orientations from the extruded aluminum profile, twelve simulations are carried out covering four different specimen geometries. The simulation results in force-displacement response and central logarithmic axial strain evolution are compared with experimental results. From the comparisons, it can be concluded that the present model has the capacity to describe the behavior of anisotropic material. From the force-displacement curves, the anisotropy is observed in different material orientations, and the physical mechanism of anisotropy is analyzed.     

Deformations of canonical singularities

We prove that small deformations of canonical singularities are canonical.

     

高聚物PMMA的受力变形行为与粘弹－塑性本构理论模型

对高聚物ＰＭＭＡ实验测定了不同（Ｔ，ε）的单轴加卸载循环的应力－应变曲线。讨论了应力促进热激活塑性变形的活化粘壶理论和塑性变形的发展规律。提出由ＳＬＳ或ＭＳ与活化粘壶作串联耦合的粘弹－塑性本构理论模型，给出了微分和积分形式的本构方程组，用于拟合求解加卸载循环的应力－应变曲线，获得良好吻合的结果。详细讨论了ＰＭＭＡ在加载过程中的受力变形行为，包括起始加载的粘弹性变形，ε＿ｖ和ε＿ｐ的互相挤占，屈服点，以及屈服后应变软化和硬化的抗衡过程。对应变软化－硬化效应提出一种新的起因于粘弹变形内禀滞后效应的理论解释，并定名为粘弹软化－强化效应。对所包含的粘弹变形成分，从Ｅ＿ｖ的移位因子和归一化应力－应变主曲线两方面，讨论了可能存在的率温等效关系。     

Continual approximations of displacements in thick layered plates upon decomposition of thermomechanical loads into bilateral symmetric and antisymmetric components

Continual models of deformation of thick layered plates, where the general order of resolving equations does not depend on the number of layers, are constructed with account of the specific character of the unflexural and flexural deformation caused by the symmetric and antisymmetric components of bilateral loads and temperature. Account of the load decomposition during the process of refining a certain reasonable initial solution, consisting in the analytical iterative integration, makes it possible to obtain rather precise continual approximations of stresses and displacements over the transverse coordinate and thus to revise the known continual models.Ukrainian State Academy of Water Management, Rovno, the Ukraine. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 743–756, November–December, 1999.     

Iron Nanoparticles in Severe-plastic-deformed Copper

Superparamagnetic iron nanoparticles with a size of a few nanometers were produced in copper by severe plastic deformation. In a isochronal annealing experiment near a temperature of 450K, which corresponds to the temperature of structural relaxation and the first step of grain growth (from 128 to 150nm) of submicrocrystalline copper, an abrupt increase in the magnetic susceptibility is detected. This increase is shown to be due to iron nanoparticles increasing in size from 2.8 to 3.3nm. The vanishing of the ferromagnetic contribution by iron nanoparticles observed at 850K, well below the Curie temperature of iron, is due to the dissolution of nanoparticles in plastically deformed copper.     

锕系核集体运动的负宇称态

从锕系区40多个核的正负宇称态的实验数据,如激发能、J^π、电偶极跃迁等,得到一系列与核结构有关的物理量,如宇称劈裂能级差δE_I,正负宇称带的第一和第二类转动惯量J⁽¹⁾和J⁽²⁾及第一负宇称态的电偶极跃迁强度比等,以及它们与角动量I或转动角频率ω的动力学和核子数A的系统行为,从而为研究锕系核负宇称态的产生机制及动力学特点提供了信息.