Solvent-aided phase separation in hydrogel towards significantly enhanced mechanoresponsive strength

Understanding working principles and thermodynamics behind phase separations, which have significant influences on condensed molecular structures and their performances, can inspire to design and fabricate anomalously and desirably mechanoresponsive hydrogels. However, a combination of techniques from physicochemistry and mechanics has yet been established for the phase separation in hydrogels. In this study, a thermodynamic model is firstly formulated to describe solvent-aided phase and microphase separations in the hydrogels, which present significantly improved mechanoresponsive strengths. Flory–Huggins theory and interfacial energy equation have further been applied to model the thermodynamics of concentration-dependent and temperature-dependent phase separations. An intricately detailed phase map has finally been formulated to explore the working principle. The thermodynamic methodology of phase separations, combined with the constitutive stress–strain relationships, has a great potential to explore the working mechanisms in mechanoresponsive hydrogels.

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An experimental and numerical study of the localization behavior of tantalum and stainless steel

In general, the shear localization process involves initiation and growth. Initiation is expected to be a stochastic process in material space where anisotropy in the elastic–plastic behavior of single crystals and inter-crystalline interactions serve to form natural perturbations to the material’s local stability. A hat-shaped sample geometry was used to study shear localization growth. It is an axi-symmetric sample with an upper “hat” portion and a lower “brim” portion with the shear zone located between the hat and brim. The shear zone length is 870–890 μm with deformation imposed through a split-Hopkinson pressure bar system at maximum top-to-bottom velocity in the range of 8–25 m/s. We present experimental results of the deformation response of tantalum and 316L stainless steel samples. The tantalum samples did not form shear bands but the stainless steel sample formed a late stage shear band. We have also modeled these experiments using both conductive and adiabatic continuum models. An anisotropic elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model with damage evolution was used within the finite element code EPIC. A Mie-Gruneisen equation of state and the rate and temperature sensitive MTS flow stress model together with a Gurson flow surface were employed. The models performed well in predicting the experimental data. The numerical results for tantalum suggested a maximum equivalent strain rate on the order of 7 × 10⁴ s⁻¹ in the gage section for an imposed top surface displacement rate of 17.5 m/s. The models also suggested that for an initial temperature of 298 K a temperature in the neighborhood of 900 K was reached within the shear section. The numerical results for stainless steel suggest that melting temperature was reached throughout the shear band shortly after peak load. Due to sample geometry, the stress state in the shear zone was not pure shear; a significant normal stress relative to the shear zone basis line was developed.     

DYNAMICS ANALYSIS OF STOCHASTIC SPATIAL FLEXIBLE MULTIBODY SYSTEM 1)

轻质、高精度的柔性多体系统被广泛应用于实际工程领域中.由于实际设计公差、制造误差及环境温度等多种不确定因素的存在,使得柔性多体系统的结构参数(物理参数和几何参数)表现出随机性.具有随机结构参数的动力学模型能够客观地反映出真实系统的动力学行为,且结构参数的不确定性对空间柔性多体系统动力学响应的影响是不容忽视的.针对具有多个随机参数的空间柔性多体系统,提出了一种基于广义alpha算法的非侵入式随机柔性多体系统动力学计算方法.采用绝对节点坐标公式(absolute node coordinate formulation, ANCF)来描述柔性体, 推导建立多体系统动力学模型.利用混沌多项式展开(polynomial chaos expansion, PCE)法构建系统随机动力学方程的代理模型,然后将随机响应面法(stochastic response surface method, SRSM)嵌入广义-alpha方法中,分别采用改进抽样的回归方法(regression method of improved sampling, RMIS)和单项求容积法则(Monte Carlo simulation, MCR)来确定样本点.将数值计算结果与蒙特卡洛模拟(Monte Carlo simulation, MCS)结果进行对比, 验证了所提算法的有效性.在相同的定积分精度的条件下,根据单项求容积法则确定的样本点的计算结果稳定性更强, 且其计算效率更高.     

遥感技术用于固体力学实验研究的新成果

在岩石、混凝土和钢材加载直到破坏的过程中用红外和微波遥感技术进行了观测研究．发现这些材料在加载过程中其红外和微波辐射温度、红外辐射波谱及红外热像均随应力的变化而变化．材料破坏前这些变化表现出某些前兆性特征．研究表明遥感技术可作为固体力学研究的一种新手段，并可望在工程上得到应用     

三峡库区奉节县三马山移民小区岩体的变形及其机制

三马山小区巴东组三段泥质灰岩由于岩溶溶蚀作用已全部发生了变形 ,根据变形程度的差别 ,可将变形区分为三个地带 ,即上部轻度溶蚀沉降地带 (Ⅰ ) ,中部溶蚀沉降地带 (Ⅱ )和下部沿江滑坡 (Ⅲ )。建筑设施主要分布在中部溶蚀沉降地带 ,应注意防水。下部沿江滑坡治理难度大 ,不适于移民迁建。     

充液挠性航天器俯仰运动 1:1:1 内共振动力学分析

采用已推导的俯仰运动矩形贮箱受控刚-液-弹耦合系统在外力矩作用下的耦合动力 学模型，在刚体上加入控制项，详细分析了系统固有频率的精确解与近似解. 应用多尺 度法对耦合系统1:1:1内共振进行解析分析，与数值解比较验证解析解的正确性. 通过近 似解析分析得到刚-液-弹之间的耦合作用机理：1) 液深影响整个系统的软硬特性，当液体发 生软硬特性转化时，处于液体原多值频率区域的刚体和弹性体幅频曲线分支峰值会减弱，且 具有相同的特性转化趋势；处于液体新多值频率区域的刚体和弹性体幅频曲线分支峰值会增 强，且具有相反的特性转化趋势. 2) 刚体和弹性体幅频曲线的峰值均在以受控刚体和弹性体 为主的耦合系统固有频率处，以液体为主固有频率激励，刚体和弹性体振幅较小.     

Effective elastic properties of doubly periodic array of inclusions of various shapes by the boundary element method

A rectangular cell of known boundary conditions is cut out from a medium containing the doubly periodic array of inclusions. The stress and strain relationship of the rectangular cell is obtained by using the classical boundary element methods. By matching the boundary condition requirements, the effective elastic properties of the doubly periodic array of inclusions can then be calculated. Numerical examples from the sub-domain boundary element method and the single domain boundary element method are compared and discussed. However, the present method cannot be readily extended to domains having circular or curved boundary parts.     

Influence of fiber’s shape and size on overall elastoplastic property for micropolar composites

A general micromechanical method is developed for a micropolar composite with ellipsoidal fibers, where the matrix material is idealized as a micropolar material model. The method is based on a special micro–macro transition method, and the classical effective moduli for micropolar composites can be determined in an analytical way. The influence of both fiber’s shape and size can be analyzed by the proposed method. The effective moduli, initial yield surface and effective nonlinear stress and strain relation for a micropolar composite reinforced by ellipsoidal fibers are examined, it is found that the prediction on the effective moduli and effective nonlinear stress and strain curves are always higher than those based on classical Cauchy material model, especially for the case where the size of fiber approaches to the characteristic length of matrix material. As expected, when the size of fiber is sufficiently large, the classical results (size-independence) can be recovered.     

岩石双孔爆破过程的流形元法模拟

在流形元基本理论基础上,引入断裂力学的裂纹产生及扩展判据,应用二阶流形元对岩石双孔爆破过程进行了研究,模拟了双孔同时起爆和毫秒延时起爆两种条件下裂纹的产生和扩展、块体的形成以及漏斗形成过程,分析了爆炸载荷作用下岩石的破坏规律以及起爆条件对该过程的影响,验证了流形元法在研究冲击载荷作用下岩石从连续体到不连续体破坏过程的准确性和有效性,为研究类似问题提供一个新的思路和方法。     

爆炸成型弹丸对Al2O3装甲陶瓷材料的侵彻实验研究

用爆炸成型弹丸(explosively formed projectile, EFP)对Al2O3装甲陶瓷材料进行了侵彻（depth of penetration, DOP）实验,得到了99Al2O3装甲陶瓷对模拟EFP的质量防护因数和差分防护因数及他们随陶瓷块厚度的变化规律,初步评估了99Al2O3装甲陶瓷对EFP的抗侵彻性能,解释了装甲陶瓷对EFP的抗侵彻过程和机理。研究结果表明,增加约束可以提高陶瓷的抗侵彻性能。