Micro-Scale Restraint Methodology for Humidity Induced Swelling Investigated by Phase Contrast X-Ray Tomography

A new methodology for restraining the swelling of spruce wood samples in the micrometre range is developed and presented. We show that the restraining device successfully prevents the free swelling of wood during moisture adsorption, thus modifying significantly the anisotropy of swelling and provoking the intended collapse and large deformations of the wood cells at the edges of the sample in contact with the restraining device. The device consists in a slotted cube designed to restrain swelling and is made of PMMA manufactured by laser ablation. The sample undergoing the restraining experiment is imaged with high-resolution synchrotron radiation phase contrast X-Ray Tomographic Microscopy. The deformation of the restraining device itself is only approximately 2 μm with respect to a 500 μm width in cubes containing latewood samples and half of that in the case of cubes containing earlywood.     

A Parametric Study on the Influence of Internal Speckle Patterning for Digital Volume Correlation in X-Ray Tomography Applications

Experimental Techniques - Use of the Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) technique has grown steadily in the mechanics community as a way of quantifying internal mechanical response of complex...     

Interlaboratory Study of Digital Volume Correlation Error Due to X-Ray Computed Tomography Equipment and Scan Parameters: an Update from the DVC Challenge

Experimental Mechanics - The quality of Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) full-field displacement measurements depends directly on the characteristics of the X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT)...     

Investigation of Relationships between Grain Structure and Inhomogeneous Deformation by Means of Laboratory-Based Multimodal X-Ray Tomography: Strain Accuracy Analysis

Experimental Mechanics - The internal strain distribution developing during plastic deformation is important for understanding the mechanical properties of polycrystalline materials. Such...     

3D Detection and Quantitative Characterization of Cracks in a Ceramic Matrix Composite Tube Using X-Ray Computed Tomography

Experimental Mechanics - Cracks play an essential role in the degradation of the thermomechanical behavior of ceramic matrix composites. However, characterizing their complex 3D geometries within a...     

结合内时理论研究岩石衰减与应变振幅的关系

本文将解决复杂弹塑性问题的有效工具内时理论,引入到岩石衰减的研究中来。根据内时理论,简要推导了在中等应变条件下,岩石衰减与应变振幅的用非弹性参数α表示的具体关系式。在MTS压机上,对砂岩、花岗岩等多种岩石样品进行了一系列的循环加卸载实验。利用应力应变滞回曲线的面积,根据衰减的能量损耗的定义,计算了各种实验条件下的岩石样品的衰减值。实验数据表明,在各次循环平均应力相等的条件下,岩石样品的衰减随应变振幅的增加而增加,与内时理论的推导结果相一致。最后,对表示岩石非弹性的参数α进行了简要的讨论。砂岩的α值较为稳定,在0.5左右;而花岗岩的α值变化较大,但二者都随着应力的增加而增加。该实验结果对地震波在地球介质中的衰减研究有一定的参考意义。     

陀螺罗经法与匹配对准法的类比研究

本文对捷联式惯导系统初始对准的陀螺罗经法和匹配法进行了比较研究，揭示了两者之间存在的相似性。从理论上提出一种新的匹配对准算法，该算法可以消除由于挠曲变形所引起的角速度干扰。本文还引入一种特殊的坐标变换，说明这种匹配算法与罗经法具有相同的数学形式     

A Comparative Study of Turbulence in Ramp-Up and Ramp-Down Unsteady Flows

DNS of a turbulent channel flow subjected to a step change in pressure gradient are performed to facilitate a direct comparison between ramp-up and ramp-down flows. Strong differences are found between behaviours of turbulence in the two flows. The wall shear stress in the ramp-up flow first overshoots, and then strongly undershoots the quasi-steady value in the initial stage of the excursion, before approaching the quasi-steady value. In a strongly decelerating flow, the wall shear stress tends to first undershoot but then overshoot the quasi-steady value. ??Slow?? response of turbulence as well as flow inertia is responsible for these behaviours. In the ramp-up flow, the response of turbulence is similar to that observed in uniformly accelerating flows from previous studies, exhibiting a three-stage development. However, the transition between the various stages is more gradual and the responding stage is much longer and slower in the flows considered here. It has been shown that the delay in the near wall region is longer than that in the buffer layer confirming that turbulence response first occurs at the location of peak turbulence production. In a strongly decelerating flow, the response of turbulence exhibits a two-stage development. In both ramp-up and ramp down flows, the energy distribution in the three components of turbulent kinetic energy deviates from that of the steady flow. In a ramp-up flow, more energy is in $u_1^\prime $ and less in $u_2^\prime $ and $u_3^\prime $ , whereas the trend is reversed in a ramp-down flow. This is a reflection of the redistribution of turbulence from $u_1^\prime $ to $u_2^\prime $ and $u_3^\prime $ .     

冲蚀磨损与冲蚀、空蚀交互磨损的对比研究

基于计算流体力学(computational fluid dynamics,CFD)方法,数值对比研究了在模拟水轮机工况中不同转速时,冲蚀与冲蚀、空蚀交互作用时,转盘表面的流场(压力场、流体浓度分布),然后在转盘式磨损装置上,进行了汽液固三相冲蚀与空蚀交互磨损试验.结果表明:对于冲蚀磨损来说,随着转速增加,压力增大,在冲蚀作用下加入空蚀磨损,压力增高,磨损加剧;而对于交互磨损来说,随着转速增加,转盘表面的空蚀磨损区域从空化孔附近开始沿着转盘旋转的反方向偏移,并且磨损程度加剧;数值计算的气泡较多且压力梯度较高区域和试验转盘磨损区域基本一致,数值计算结果和试验结果吻合得较好.     

Microcracking and Fracture Process in Cement Mortar and Concrete: A Comparative Study Using Acoustic Emission Technique

This article reports the acoustic emission (AE) study of precursory micro-cracking activity and fracture behaviour of quasi-brittle materials such as concrete and cement mortar. In the present study, notched three-point bend specimens (TPB) were tested under crack mouth opening displacement (CMOD) control at a rate of 0.0004 mm/sec and the accompanying AE were recorded using a 8 channel AE monitoring system. The various AE statistical parameters including AE event rate $ \left( {\frac{dn }{dt }} \right) $ , AE energy release rate $ \left( {\frac{dE }{dt }} \right) $ , amplitude distribution for computing the AE based b-value, cumulative energy (ΣE) and ring down count (RDC) were used for the analysis. The results show that the micro-cracks initiated and grew at an early stage in mortar in the pre peak regime. While in the case of concrete, the micro-crack growth occurred during the peak load regime. However, both concrete and mortar showed three distinct stages of micro-cracking activity, namely initiation, stable growth and nucleation prior to the final failure. The AE statistical behavior of each individual stage is dependent on the number and size distribution of micro-cracks. The results obtained in the laboratory are useful to understand the various stages of micro-cracking activity during the fracture process in quasi-brittle materials such as concrete & mortar and extend them for field applications.     

Two Micromechanical Models in Acoustoelasticity: a Comparative Study

Herein we derive, under the micromechanical model we proposed earlier, Man and Paroni [14], a complete set of formulae for the twelve material constants in the acoustoelastic constitutive equation for orthorhombic aggregates of cubic crystallites. We present also a second model and compare its predictions on the material constants with those of the first model. Both these models lead to constitutive equations which are indifferent to rotation of reference placement. This allows us to appeal to a new representation theorem (Paroni and Man [15]), which greatly facilitates our derivation of the formulae for the material constants. The second model introduced in this paper is intimately related to some previous averaging theories in the literature. We explain why and in what sense our second model could be taken as a generalization of its predecessors.     

A Comparative Study of Gas Flooding and Foam-Assisted Chemical Flooding in Bentheimer Sandstones

Transport in Porous Media - A laboratory study of principal immiscible gas flooding schemes is reported. Very well-controlled experiments on continuous gas injection, water-alternating-gas (WAG)...     

Anisotropy of Seismic Attenuation in Fractured Media: Theory and Ultrasonic Experiment

This is a study on anisotropy of seismic attenuation in a transversely isotropic (TI) model, which is a long-wavelength equivalent of an isotropic medium with embedded parallel fractures. The model is based on Schoenberg’s linear-slip theory. Attenuation is introduced by means of a complex-valued stiffness matrix, which includes complex-valued normal and tangential weaknesses. To study the peculiarities of seismic attenuation versus wave-propagation direction in TI media, numerical modeling was performed. The model-input data were the complex-valued weaknesses found from the laboratory ultrasonic experiment made with a Plexiglas plate-stack model, oil-saturated (wet) and air-filled (dry). The laboratory experiment and the numerical modeling have shown that in the vicinity of the symmetry axis, in the wet model, P-wave attenuation is close to S-wave attenuation, while in the dry model, P-wave attenuation is much greater than S-wave attenuation. Moreover, the fluid fill affects the P-wave attenuation pattern. In the dry (air-saturated) model, the attenuation pattern in the vicinity of the symmetry axis exhibits steeper slope and curvature than in the wet (oil-saturated) model. To define the slope or the curvature, a QVO gradient was introduced, which was found to be proportional to the symmetry-axis Q _S/Q _P-ratio, which explains the differences between dry and wet models. Thus, depending on the Q _S/Q _P-ratio, the QVO gradient can serve as an indicator of the type of fluid in fractures, because the QVO gradient is greater in gas-saturated than in liquid-saturated rocks. The analysis of P-wave attenuation anisotropy in seismic reflection and vertical seismic profiling data can be useful in seismic exploration for distinguishing gas from water in fractures.     

气固两相流离心风机叶片载荷特性的研究

本文利用气－固两相流单相耦合和简化的双相耦合模型,计算了离心风机四种典型荷规律叶片的磨损与积尘特性,考察了叶片的加载规律与其磨损部位,磨损量和积尘趋势的关系以及固粒在叶片上的碰撞角,碰撞速度的分布规律,为设计高效含尘风机提出了新的建议。经过固相对风机特性影响的实验研究。证了用于予测风机磨损特性的“单相耦合”模型的可行性。     

塑料与橡胶材料磨损金属的研究进展

综述了近 40年来国内外关于塑料与橡胶材料磨损金属的研究进展 ,主要就金属的磨损率及其影响因素、塑料与橡胶磨损金属的物理效应及化学机制进行了概括论述 .并针对高分子材料磨损金属的研究现状及其发展前景 ,提出了今后值得注意的几个研究方向     

A Comparative Study of Least-squares,SUPG and Galerkin Methods for Convection Problems

Least-squares, SUPG and Galerkin methods are compared for a model convection problem in the context of smooth and discontinuous solutions. Our experiments focus on the impact of boundary condition implementation and grid orientation upon these methods, as well as their relative performance for both types of solutions.     

A Study of Large Plastic Deformations in Dual Phase Steel Using Digital Image Correlation and FE Analysis

Large plastic deformation in sheets made of dual phase steel DP800 is studied experimentally and numerically. Shear testing is applied to obtain large plastic strains in sheet metals without strain localisation. In the experiments, full-field displacement measurements are carried out by means of digital image correlation, and based on these measurements the strain field of the deformed specimen is calculated. In the numerical analyses, an elastoplastic constitutive model with isotropic hardening and the Cockcroft–Latham fracture criterion is adopted to predict the observed behaviour. The strain hardening parameters are obtained from a standard uniaxial tensile test for small and moderate strains, while the shear test is used to determine the strain hardening for large strains and to calibrate the fracture criterion. Finite Element (FE) calculations with shell and brick elements are performed using the non-linear FE code LS–DYNA. The local strains in the shear zone and the nominal shear stress-elongation characteristics obtained by experiments and FE simulations are compared, and, in general, good agreement is obtained. It is demonstrated how the strain hardening at large strains and the Cockcroft–Latham fracture criterion can be calibrated from the in-plane shear test with the aid of non-linear FE analyses. An erratum to this article can be found at