带剪切型压电激励器的板的高阶剪切变形理论

利用压电材料固有的正，逆压电效应可以对结构变形和振动进行控制。与外加电场与极化方向平行于板厚度的压电材料的拉伸作动机制相比，外加电场与极化方向垂直的压电材料的剪切作动机制可以在作动器内产生较小的应力，从而降低作动器边界产生分层破坏的危险。本文对于压电材料的剪切作动机制进行研究，应用三阶剪切变形理论建立带剪切型压电激励器的智能层合板模型。采用哈密顿原理导出带剪切型压电激励器的层合板的控制方程。采用空间法得到了各种边界条件组合条件下板的解析解。数值算例对一三层板采用高阶和一阶剪切变形理论进行计算，结果表明两种理论所得的变形曲线很相似。但对于厚度剪切型激励器而言，由于激励器是引起板的剪切变形，而高阶剪切变形理论比一阶剪切变形理论能更好地反映结构的剪切应变能，因此高阶剪切变形理论可以提供板变形的更为精确的解。因此，对于厚度剪切型激励器，剪切变形理论的选取对于板变形结果的好坏有重要的作用。     

Experimental investigation of side force control on cone-cylinder slender bodies with flexible micro balloon actuators

Side forces on slender bodies of revolution at medium to high angles of attack (AOA > 30°) has been known from a large number of investigations. Asymmetric vortex pairs over a slender body are believed to be the principle cause of the side forces. Under some flight conditions, this side force may be as large as the normal force acting on the slender body. In this paper, experimental results are presented for side force control on a cone-cylinder slender body by using microfabricated balloon actuators. The micro balloon actuators are made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer by using micro molding techniques. They can be packaged on curve surfaces of a cone-cylinder slender body. As actuator is actuated, the micro balloon actuator inflates about 1.2 mm vertically, which is about 2.4% of the cylinder diameter D (=50 mm) of the cone-cylinder slender body. Micro balloon actuators are actuated at different roll angles of a cone-cylinder slender body. Aerodynamic force measurement results indicate the effects of micro balloon actuators vary at different actuation locations on the cone-cylinder slender body. The side forces can be significantly reduced if the actuators are actuated in the weak vortex side (the side corresponding to the asymmetric vortex which is far from the surface) and actuation angles are located at about 50–60° (the actuation angle here is measured from stagnation line of the incidence plane toward weak vortex side direction). Significant changes are noticed from the surface pressure, as well as leeside vortex flow field, measurement. Micro balloon actuators change nose shapes of the slender body which decide adverse-pressure-gradient values and directly influence the origin of the separation lines and characteristics of the separated vortices over the leeside surface.     

层状压电陶瓷致动器中力电耦合场奇异性的数值分析

首先推导了不同压电材料界面裂纹尖端处的扇形区域内包含基本方程、裂纹面D-P边界条件和交界面处边界条件的弱形式。通过假设力电耦合位移场(位移和电势)与到裂纹尖端距离的(λ 1)次方成正比,可以得到一个分析压电材料裂纹尖端处力电耦合场奇异性的特殊的一维有限元列式。该一维有限元列式只需对扇形区域在角度方向上离散,最后的总体方程为一个关于λ的二次特征根方程。探讨了层状压电陶瓷致动器中可能出现奇异力电耦合场的部位的裂纹面边界条件及交界面处边界条件,进而将该一维有限元法进行推广,用于研究了这些部位的力电耦合场的奇异性。通过数值算例与相应的精确解的比较表明该方法是正确的,而且仅用很少单元就可以得到非常精确的结果。     

采用分布式压电驱动器升力面的颤振主动抑制

对采用分布式压电驱动器升力面的颤振主动抑制进行了理论与试验研究.应用 LQG最优控制法设计了主动控制律,在控制律降阶时提出了平衡实现与LK法结合使用的新途径,在对不定常气动力进行有理函数拟合时对LS法进行了改进.试验中利用激光测速仪非接触测量模型的速度响应并在地面共振试验中用压电驱动器激振模型.颤振风洞试验结果表明,理论计算合理并与试验结果吻合良好.     

压电堆叠作动器的对称性求解

研究了压电堆叠作动器的对称性,并给出了系统存在的守恒量和对称性解.以轴向运动的压电堆叠作动器为研究对象,根据其结构特点,选取位移和磁链作为广义坐标,运用能量方法,建立了压电堆叠作动器的Lagrange(拉格朗日)方程.引入位移和磁链广义坐标的无限小群变换,分别研究了压电堆叠作动器的Noether对称性和Lie对称性,给出了广义Noether恒等式、广义Killing方程、广义Noether定理和Lie定理,计算了压电堆叠作动器存在的Noether对称性和Lie对称性的生成元,并给出了相应系统存在的守恒量.最后,利用得到的守恒量,给出了压电堆叠作动器对称性解,并计算了在控制电压变化的情况下位移和速度的动态响应曲线.     

Control of an axially moving viscoelastic Kirchhoff string

The control problem of axially moving strings occurs in a large class of mechanical systems. In addition to the longitudinal displacement, the strings are subject to undesirable transversal vibrations. In this work, in order to suppress these vibrations, we consider a control by a hydraulic touch-roll actuator at the right boundary. We prove uniform stability of the system using a viscoelastic material and an appropriate boundary control force applied to the touch rolls of the actuator. The features of the present work are: taking into account the mass flow entering in and out at the boundaries due to the axial movement of the string and overcoming the difficulty raised by the Kirchhoff coefficient which does not allow us to profit from the dissipativity of the system (as in the existing works so far). We shall make use of an inequality which is new in this theory.     

Deformation of cross-linked liquid crystal polymers by light – from ultraviolet to visible and infrared

ABSTRACT

Collecting and amplifying the nanoscopic molecular motions into macroscopic deformation is the unique property of cross-linked liquid crystal polymers (CLCPs). These materials can directly transfer input light energy into mechanical work when combined with photochromophores, thus fascinating many scientists. This article reviews the macroscopic and microscopic deformation of photoresponsive azobenzene-containing CLCPs and analyses the influence of mesogen alignment and chemical structure on shape change behaviour. We highlight some new methods to trigger the deformation by visible and infrared light instead of ultraviolet one, such as chemical modification of azobenzene and addition of upconversion materials.     

A Novel Side-Chain Liquid Crystal Elastomer Exhibiting Anomalous Reversible Shape Change

Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) have been actively investigated as stimuli-controlled actuators and soft robots. The basis of these applications is the ability of LCEs to undergo a reversible shape change upon a liquid crystalline (LC)-isotropic phase transition. Herein, we report the synthesis of a novel LCE based on a side-chain liquid crystalline polymer (SCLCP). In contrast to known LCEs, this LCE exhibits a striking anomalous shape change. Subjecting a mechanically stretched monodomain strip to LC-disorder phase transition, both the length and width of the strip contract in isotropic phase, and both elongate in LC phase. This thermally induced behaviour is the result of a subtle interplay between the relaxation of polymer main chain oriented along the stretching direction and the disordering of side-group mesogens oriented perpendicularly to the stretching direction. This finding points out potential design of LCEs of this peculiar type and possible applications to exploit.     

Active control of coaxial jet mixing with manipulation of primary vortical structures by arrayed micro flap actuators

Active mixing control of a methane/air isothermal coaxial jet was achieved using micro magnetic flap actuators arranged on the inner surface of the outer annular nozzle. The spatio-temporal evolution of vortical structures and the scalar mixing were studied through the particle image velocimetry and planar laser-induced fluorescence methods. In contrast to studies on jet control using acoustic forcing, the mechanical movement of the flap directly generated large-scale intense vortices. The mixing was enhanced significantly by the vortices formed in the inner shear layer, although the control input was given to the outer shear layer. It was found that the primary vortex rings dominated the near-field mixing, while streamwise vortices were responsible for the downstream mixing. It was also demonstrated that the radial range of the inner fuel transportation could be manipulated flexibly by adjusting the shedding interval of the vortices. Especially, the mixing was enhanced most significantly when the primary vortices were most densely populated near the nozzle exit at the control Strouhal number of unity.     

Magnetic resonance elastography using an air ball-actuator

The purpose of this study was to develop a new technique for a powerful compact MR elastography (MRE) actuator based on a pneumatic ball-vibrator. This is a compact actuator that generates powerful centrifugal force vibrations via high speed revolutions of an internal ball using compressed air. This equipment is easy to handle due to its simple principles and structure. Vibration frequency and centrifugal force are freely adjustable via air pressure changes (air flow volume), and replacement of the internal ball. In order to achieve MRI compatibility, all parts were constructed from non-ferromagnetic materials. Vibration amplitudes (displacements) were measured optically by a laser displacement sensor. From a bench test of displacement, even though the vibration frequency increased, the amount of displacement did not decrease. An essential step in MRE is the generation of mechanical waves within tissue via an actuator, and MRE sequences are synchronized to several phase offsets of vibration. In this system, the phase offset was detected by a four-channel optical-fiber sensor, and it was used as an MRI trigger signal. In an agarose gel phantom experiment, this actuator was used to make an MR elastogram. This study shows that the use of a ball actuator for MRE is feasible.