Mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotube bundles as bulk materials

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in crystalline bundles may exhibit a transition in which the cross-sections of tubes turn from perfectly circular to hexagonal, depending upon the tube diameter and externally applied pressure, and this structural instability leads to an abrupt change in the bulk elastic properties of SWNT bundles. This paper presents a hybrid atom/continuum model to study the bulk elastic properties of SWNT bundles, and the predicted characteristics of this structural instability agree well with the experimental observations available in the literature. Linearized bulk elastic properties of SWNT bundles with respect to a stable configuration are transversely isotropic and hence can be characterized by five independent elastic moduli. A complete set of these five moduli is predicted for the first time. It is found that the deformability of tube cross-sections play a dominant role in characterizing the transverse moduli.     

Two-dimensional stability problem for two interacting short fibers in a composite: In-line arrangement

A solution is found to a plane problem for a composite material reinforced with two in-line fibers and subjected to longitudinal compression. The problem formulation is based on the piecewise-homogeneous model and the three-dimensional theory of stability. The dependence of the critical strain and buckling mode on the distance between the fibers is studied for various mechanical and geometrical characteristics of the composite components.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 65–74, September 2004.     

双周期裂纹压电材料反平面剪切问题断裂力学分析

研究压电材料双周期裂纹反平面剪切与平面电场作用的问题．运用复变函数方法，获得了该问题严格的闭合解，并由此给出了裂纹尖端应力强度因子和电位移强度因子的精确公式．数值算例显示了裂纹分布特征对材料断裂行为的重要影响．叠间小裂纹能够对主裂纹的应力和电位移场起着屏蔽作用，相反行间小裂纹却起着放大作用，至于钻石形分布裂纹的影响规律则更为复杂．对于某些特殊情形给予了解答并导出一系列有意义的结果。     

The use of a virtual configuration in formulating constitutive equations for residually stressed elastic materials

Residual stress is the stress present in the unloaded equilibrium configuration of a body. Because residual stresses can significantly affect the mechanical behavior of a component, the measurement of these stresses and the prediction of their effect on mechanical behavior are important objectives in many engineering problems. Common methods for the measurement of residual stresses include various destructive experiments in which the body is cut to relieve the residual stress. The resulting strain is measured and used to approximate the original residual stress in the intact body. In order to predict the mechanical behavior of a residually stressed body, a constitutive model is required that includes the influence of the residual stress.In this paper we present a method by which the data obtained from standard destructive experiments can be used to derive constitutive equations that describe the mechanical behavior of elastic residually stressed bodies. The derivation is based on the idea that for each infinitesimal neighborhood in a residually stressed body, there exists a corresponding stress free configuration. We refer to this stress free configuration as the virtual configuration of the infinitesimal neighborhood. The derivation requires that the constitutive equation for the stress free material be known and invertible; it is used to relate the residual stress to the deformation of the virtual configuration into the residually stressed configuration. Although the concept of the virtual configuration is central to the derivation, the geometry of this configuration need not be determined explicitly, and it need not be achievable experimentally, in order to construct the constitutive equation for the residually stressed body.The general mathematical forms of constitutive equations valid for residually stressed elastic materials have been derived previously for a number of cases. These general forms contain numerous unknown material-response functions or material constants that must be determined experimentally. In contrast, the method presented here results in a constitutive equation that is an explicit function of residual stress and includes only the material parameters required to describe the stress free material.After presenting the method for the derivation of constitutive equations, we explore the relationship between destructive experiments and the theory used in the derivation. Specifically, we discuss the use of the theory to improve the design of destructive experiments, and the use of destructive experiments to obtain the data required to construct the constitutive equation for a particular material.     

THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF A MAGNETOELECTROELASTIC HALF-SPACE UNDER AXISYMMETRIC TEMPERATURE LOADING 1)

考虑力-电-磁-热等多场耦合作用, 基于线性理论给出了磁-电-弹性半空间在表面轴对称温度载荷作用下的热-磁-电-弹性分析, 并得到了问题的解析解. 利用Hankel 积分变换法求解了磁-电-弹性材料中的热传导及控制方程, 讨论了在磁-电-弹性半空间在边界表面上作用局部热载荷时的混合边值问题, 利用积分变换和积分方程技术, 通过在边界表面上施加应力自由及磁-电开路条件, 推导得到了磁-电-弹性半空间中位移、电势及磁势的积分形式的表达式. 获得了磁-电-弹性半空间中温度场的解析表达式并且给出了应力, 电位移和磁通量的解析解. 数值计算结果表明温度载荷对磁-电-弹性场的分布有显著影响. 当温度载荷作用的圆域半径增大时, 最大正应力发生的位置会远离半无限大体的边界; 反之当温度载荷作用的圆域半径减小时, 最大应力发生的位置会靠近半无限大体的边界. 电场和磁场在温度载荷作用的圆域内在边界表面附近有明显的强化, 而磁-电-弹性场强化区域的强化程度跟温度载荷的大小和作用区域大小相关. 本研究的相关结果对智能材料和结构在热载荷作用下的设计和制造具有指导意义.     

A continuum analysis of charge induced ferroelectric domain wall motions

A continuum model is presented for the motion of a domain wall in a plane 90°-domain configuration subjected to an isolated extrinsic charge near the surface of a ferroelectric single crystal. Local pinning is postulated for the kinetic law. Before the appearance of the extrinsic charge, all polarization surface charges are taken to be neutralized by environmental charges. The domain wall motion after the appearance of the extrinsic charge is assumed to proceed sufficiently fast without any significant conductive currents on the surface or in the interior of the crystal such that new surface and interface polarization charges remain unscreened and contribute to the ferroelectric anisotropy energy. A non-admissible divergence of the electric field and consequently of the local thermodynamic driving force and of the domain wall velocity appears in the model if the domain wall charged by interface polarization charges intersects the crystal surface charged by surface polarization charges under an arbitrary angle. The physically possible domain wall angle is identified using the condition of a non-divergent driving force. The ferroelectric anisotropy energy and an intrinsic surface energy of the domain wall, however, do not provide stability of the domain wall trajectory against an unlimited increase of its curvature at the surface. The problem has been solved conceptually by proper account of the domain wall bending energy. Numerical and dimensional analysis explain also why domain walls driven by extrinsic charges remain almost straight in soft ferroelectrics.     

疲劳损伤伤演方程中材料常数的确定

损伤力学作为近年来固体力学的一个非常活跃的分支,其本构关系和损伤演化方程是核心内容。损伤演化方程中材料常数的确定,是损伤力学中最基本却很重要的工作。利用大范围损伤下的预估拉压和弯曲疲劳裂纹形成寿命的封闭解答,应用最小二乘法给出了确定损伤演化方程dD/dN=α(Δε)m中材料常数α、m的方法。该方法可作为确定这种类型损伤演化方程材料常数的一般方法。     

金属材料的激光表面改性及其在摩擦学中的应用

作者对激光表面处理的各种方法和现有技术水平进行了综述介绍,并就其在改善金属材料表面摩擦磨损性能方面的研究和应用,以及今后的发展都作了简要的分析和讨论。激光相变硬化能使处理的工件形成具有表面压应力的硬质马氏体表面,因而可以降低表面的磨损速率。在金属工件上通过激光包覆高抗磨、抗热、抗腐蚀和抗疲劳的高硬质合金甚至致密陶瓷,在严格控制工件材料对包覆合金稀释的情况下,可使底材获得高的摩擦学性能。激光合金化通过选择合金元素和基底材料能有选择地改进低成本工件的表面,使其具有优异的物理、化学和机械性能。激光上釉是通过细化铸造组织、减少偏析及形成高度过饱和固溶体等亚稳定相乃至非晶态而提高了材料的耐磨性、抗氧化性和抗腐蚀性能。激光冲击硬化是通过在材料表层内形成冲击波而引起“损伤”来改变表层的组织和性能。     

铁路货车心盘材料的耐磨性研究

对比研究了货车心盘用ZG25MnNb钢、AAR-C级钢及经过表面强化处理的锻钢20Mn、锻钢Q345和铸钢ZG25的耐磨性能；采用金相显微镜分析了材料金相结构对其耐磨性能的影响。结果表明，对货车心盘用钢材进行表面强化能够显著改善其耐磨性能ZG25MnNb钢和经表面强化处理的锻钢20Mn的耐磨性较优；表面硬度高而组织细小的材料组成的摩擦副的耐磨性较好。     

零维物质体和微态物质体

在这篇文章里,R.G Muncaster的零维弹性体被推广到一般的高阶零维物质体。从非极连续介质力学理论出发,我们推出了零维物质体的所有平衡方程和热力学不等式。再从这些方程和不等式推出微态物质体的相应平衡方程和热力学不等式。这样,我们在零维物质体理论和微态物质体理论之间建立了一个类似于刚性质点力学和古典非极连续介质力学之间关系的关系。