Spallation analysis with a closed trans-scale formulation of damage evolution

A closed, trans-scale formulation of damage evolution based on the statistical microdamage mechanics is summarized in this paper. The dynamic function of damage bridges the mesoscopic and macroscopic evolution of damage. The spallation in an aluminium plate is studied with this formulation. It is found that the damage evolution is governed by several dimensionless parameters, i.e., imposed Deborah numbersDe ^* andDe, Mach numberM and damage numberS. In particular, the most critical mode of the macroscopic damage evolution, i.e., the damage localization, is determined by Deborah numberDe ^*. Deborah numberDe ^* reflects the coupling and competition between the macroscopic loading and the microdamage growth. Therefore, our results reveal the multi-scale nature of spallation. In fact, the damage localization results from the nonlinearity of the microdamage growth. In addition, the dependence of the damage rate on imposed Deborah numbersDe ^* andDe, Mach numberM and damage numberS is discussed. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10172084, 10232040, 10232050, 10372012, 10302029) and the Special Funds for Major State Research Project (G200077305)     

Synchronous multi-scale observations on rock damage and rupture

This paper reports a multi-scale study on damage evolution process and rupture of gabbro under uniaxial compression with several experimental techniques, including MTS810 testing machine, white digital speckle correlation method, and acoustic emission technique. In particular, the synchronization of the three experimental systems is realized for the study of relationship of deformation and damage at multiple scales. It is found that there are significant correlation between damage evolution at small and large length scales, and rupture at sample scale, especially it displays critical sensitivity at multiple scales and trans-scale fluctuations.     

Impact of texture on stress growth in thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers subjected to step-shear

The Landau-de Gennes tensor order parameter equations of nemato-dynamics are formulated, solved and used to find the impact of textural transformation on stress growth in thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers subjected to shear start-up flow. The simulated textural transformations include nucleation and annihilation of twist inversion walls. Coarsening processes include wall-wall annihilation, wall pinching and wall-bounding surface reactions. In the absence of defect-related effects, the stress growth is characterized by an early stress plateau, intermediate power law growth, and a late stage stress plateau. As the Deborah number (De) increases, flow-induced textural transformations affect the late stage and then the intermediate stress growth stage. Defects are found to be stress sinks, and so removal of defects increases stress. At lower Deborah numbers, few defects arise and coarsening rates are low, so the main texture effect in this regime is in the late stage plateau region, causing localized step increases. At Deborah numbers close to one, nucleation and coarsening rates increase, and textural effects appear closer and closer to the intermediate stress growth regime. As De increases further, coarsening by pinching processes overcomes nucleation, and all defects disappear in the intermediate stress growth regime, causing the stress growth to exhibit a smooth staircase shape. Strain and amplitude scaling is not observed. Simulated textural transformations show that smooth staircase stress growth is the result of defect annihilation processes. The non-monotonic stress growth is consistent with experimental observations. Simulated textures provide specific knowledge important to the eventual understanding of the rheologies of textured liquid crystal polymers.     

固体的统计细观力学——-连接多个耦合的时空尺度

从固体力学所面临的新的挑战------多物理、多尺度耦合及其现状的描述开始, 以层裂 过程为例, 说明了这些多尺度非平衡问题的基本困难在于, 在固体中不同尺度上有不同的微 结构层次及不同的演化物理和速率. 接下来, 概述了一些针对这一困难的独特的思路及 其成果. 第3部分强调了一些统计平均方法的范式, 以及处理包含多个时间和空间尺度的问 题的新思路, 特别是非平衡损伤演化导致宏观失效的问题. 在第4部分, 简要评述了一些连 接多个空间和时间尺度的细观力学框架, 如位错理论, 物理细观力学, Weibull理论, 随机 理论等, 并且阐述了其中蕴含的跨尺度耦合的机理. 然后, 在第5部分, 回到了描述损 伤演化过程的框架, 也就是统计细观损伤力学以及它的跨尺度封闭近似. 基于这些跨尺度框 架, 在第6部分, 对控制跨尺度耦合的可能机理进行了评述和比较. 由于对失效时灾变 的洞察与跨尺度强耦合紧密相关, 一些非平衡和强相互作用的新概念在第7部分进行了讨 论. 最后, 以一个简短的总结和一些建议结束.     

固体跨尺度压痕标度律的研究与展望

压痕标度律是对通过压痕试验方法测定固体材料力学性能参量问题所给出的一般性结论, 具有重要的理论意义, 是探寻材料力学性能潜在规律的方法论研究. 本综述论文系统而简要地介绍如下主要内容: 采用传统理论对传统固体材料压痕标度律的研究回顾; 采用跨尺度力学理论对先进固体材料的跨尺度压痕标度律的研究回顾. 总结并得到了如下主要结论: 传统固体材料压痕标度律可由一空间曲面完整描绘, 若进一步已知某类无量纲独立参量的取值范围, 则该空间曲面可退化为系列平面曲线族; 先进固体材料(新材料)的跨尺度压痕标度律可由一个三维函数关系完整描绘, 若存在某类独立无量纲参量取值范围已知, 则该三维函数关系将退化为系列空间曲面族. 压痕标度律的未来研究发展仍将重点集中在建立新材料的跨尺度压痕标度律上, 以试图从根本上解决新材料力学性能标准规范难以建立的理论问题. 除此之外也将重点关注建立各类功能新材料的多尺度及跨尺度压痕标度律规律.      

Closed trans-scale statistical microdamage mechanics

Damage and failure due to distributed microcracks or microvoids are on the challenging frontiers of solid mechanics. This appeals strongly to tools not yet fully developed in continuum damage mechanics, in particular to irreversible statistical thermodynamics and a unified macroscopic equations of mechanics and kinetic equations of microstructural transformations. This review provides the state of the art in statistical microdamage mechanics.

An approximate solution for the Couette–Poiseuille flow of the Giesekus model between parallel plates

An approximate analytical solution is derived for the Couette–Poiseuille flow of a nonlinear viscoelastic fluid obeying the Giesekus constitutive equation between parallel plates for the case where the upper plate moves at constant velocity, and the lower one is at rest. Validity of this approximation is examined by comparison to the exact solution during a parametric study. The influence of Deborah number (De) and Giesekus model parameter (α) on the velocity profile, normal stress, and friction factor are investigated. Results show strong effects of viscoelastic parameters on velocity profile and normal stress. In addition, five velocity profile types were obtained for different values of α, De, and the dimensionless pressure gradient (G).     

Energy dissipation mechanisms in ductile fracture

The objective is to investigate energy dissipation mechanisms that operate at different length scales during fracture in ductile materials. A dimensional analysis is performed to identify the sets of dimensionless parameters which contribute to energy dissipation via dislocation-mediated plastic deformation at a crack tip. However, rather than using phenomenological variables such as yield stress and hardening modulus in the analysis, physical variables such as dislocation density, Burgers vector and Peierls stress are used. It is then shown via elementary arguments that the resulting dimensionless parameters can be interpreted in terms of competitions between various energy dissipation mechanisms at different length scales from the crack tip; the energy dissipations mechanisms are cleavage, crack tip dislocation nucleation and also dislocation nucleation from a Frank-Read source. Therefore, the material behavior is classified into three groups. The first two groups are the well-known intrinsic brittle and intrinsic ductile behavior. The third group is designated to be extrinsic ductile behavior for which Frank-Read dislocation nucleation is the initial energy dissipation mechanism. It is shown that a material is predicted to exhibit extrinsic ductility if the dimensionless parameter bρ_disl^1/2 (b is Burgers vector, ρ_disl is dislocation density) is within a certain range defined by other dimensionless parameters, irrespective of the competition between cleavage and crack tip dislocation nucleation. The predictions compare favorably to the documented behavior of a number of different classes of materials.     

大型土木结构多尺度模拟与损伤分析——————从材料多尺度力学到结构多尺度

从阐述重大土木工程结构安全运营面临的挑战性课题------结构多尺度力学问题开始, 对多尺度力学中的材料多尺度模拟和结构多尺度模拟的工程背景、多尺度特征和关键研究内容进行比较性评述;在此基础上, 重点介绍了对研究大型土木结构多尺度力学问题可能有参考价值的材料多尺度模拟和分析方法如周期性异质材料问题的平均化与渐进分析方法、单位分解法和多尺度重构核函数法, 以及大型土木结构多尺度模拟与分析领域的研究现状,由此引出结构多尺度力学研究中亟待解决的关键问题并加以评述;通过认识与比较结构多尺度与材料多尺度问题的共性与个性, 文中综述了在大型土木结构多尺度问题的研究进程中可供参考的理论与方法, 提出了这类结构多尺度力学问题研究的几个关键科学问题为: 结构多尺度模拟中的连接与跨越问题、多尺度模型的修正和验证、结构损伤的时间多尺度模拟与分析、结构强度和损伤失效过程中多尺度分析的跨尺度敏感性与随机性因素, 以及适用于大型土木结构多尺度模拟和计算分析的实施策略与技术.      

Reprint of “Multi-scale cohesive laws in hierarchical materials” [In. J. Solids Struct. 44 (2007) 8177–8193]

Motivated by the observations that natural materials such as bone, shell, tendon and the attachment system of gecko exhibit multi-scale hierarchical structures, this paper aims to develop a better understanding of the effects of structural hierarchy on flaw insensibility of materials from the viewpoint of multi-scale cohesive laws. We consider two idealized, self-similar models of hierarchical materials, one mimicking gecko’s attachment system and the other mimicking the mineral–protein composite structure of bone, to demonstrate that structural hierarchy leads to multi-scale cohesive laws which can be designed from bottom up to enable flaw tolerance from nanoscale to macroscopic length scales.     

Multi-scale cohesive laws in hierarchical materials

Motivated by the observations that natural materials such as bone, shell, tendon and the attachment system of gecko exhibit multi-scale hierarchical structures, this paper aims to develop a better understanding of the effects of structural hierarchy on flaw insensibility of materials from the viewpoint of multi-scale cohesive laws. We consider two idealized, self-similar models of hierarchical materials, one mimicking gecko’s attachment system and the other mimicking the mineral–protein composite structure of bone, to demonstrate that structural hierarchy leads to multi-scale cohesive laws which can be designed from bottom up to enable flaw tolerance from nanoscale to macroscopic length scales.     

Size effects in the conical indentation of an elasto-plastic solid

The size effect in conical indentation of an elasto-plastic solid is predicted via the Fleck and Willis formulation of strain gradient plasticity (Fleck, N.A. and Willis, J.R., 2009, A mathematical basis for strain gradient plasticity theory. Part II: tensorial plastic multiplier, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 57, 1045–1057). The rate-dependent formulation is implemented numerically and the full-field indentation problem is analyzed via finite element calculations, for both ideally plastic behavior and dissipative hardening. The isotropic strain-gradient theory involves three material length scales, and the relative significance of these length scales upon the degree of size effect is assessed. Indentation maps are generated to summarize the sensitivity of indentation hardness to indent size, indenter geometry and material properties (such as yield strain and strain hardening index). The finite element model is also used to evaluate the pertinence of the Johnson cavity expansion model and of the Nix–Gao model, which have been extensively used to predict size effects in indentation hardness.     

Strain gradient crystal plasticity effects on flow localization

In metal grains one of the most important failure mechanisms involves shear band localization. As the band width is small, the deformations are affected by material length scales. To study localization in single grains a rate-dependent crystal plasticity formulation for finite strains is presented for metals described by the reformulated Fleck–Hutchinson strain gradient plasticity theory. The theory is implemented numerically within a finite element framework using slip rate increments and displacement increments as state variables. The formulation reduces to the classical crystal plasticity theory in the absence of strain gradients. The model is used to study the effect of an internal material length scale on the localization of plastic flow in shear bands in a single crystal under plane strain tension. It is shown that the mesh sensitivity is removed when using the nonlocal material model considered. Furthermore, it is illustrated how different hardening functions affect the formation of shear bands.     

桥梁结构劣化与损伤过程的多尺度分析方法及其应用

研究桥梁结构多尺度模拟和分析方法对于发展重大桥梁结构损伤检测与状态评估方法以确保其安全运营是至关重要的.本文综述和总结了作者及其课题组多年来在桥梁结构劣化与损伤过程分析领域的研究工作.包括:系统地提出了针对大型桥梁结构损伤劣化过程分析需求的结构多尺度问题,研究证实了结构损伤与劣化过程分析可以通过结构一致多尺度模拟和时空多尺度分析来实现;提出了针对大型桥梁结构多尺度模型的多因素、多目标同步模型修正技术,指出多尺度模型修正必须对各分析目标敏感的多种因素同步优化,同时交叉验证修正后模型对该级修正目标和对其它模拟目标的复现与预测能力.提出了基于结构一致多尺度模拟和结构健康监测信息进行结构劣化分析的方法并应用于两个重大桥梁工程结构的疲劳损伤分析与评估.最后,指出在此领域中还要很多问题亟待解决,尤其是如何模拟损伤从材料与结构中的细观层次的缺陷演化发展到结构局部乃至整体失效的过程,建立结构损伤演化与失效过程的跨尺度分析理论与方法.     

从"哥伦比亚"号悲剧看多尺度力学问题

航空航天安全蕴含着大量的涉及多个物理层次的多尺度力学问题．多尺度力学问题对现有的力学概念和理论是一个巨大的挑战、以铝合金层裂和岩石脆性破坏为典型案例,讨论了多尺度力学问题的特点、难点以及可能的处理方法,说明合理表征和处理多尺度问题的跨尺度耦合及跨尺度敏感性是解决多尺度问题的关键．     

A micromechanics-inspired constitutive model for shape-memory alloys that accounts for initiation and saturation of phase transformation

A constitutive model to describe macroscopic elastic and transformation behaviors of polycrystalline shape-memory alloys is formulated using an internal variable thermodynamic framework. In a departure from prior phenomenological models, the proposed model treats initiation, growth kinetics, and saturation of transformation distinctly, consistent with physics revealed by recent multi-scale experiments and theoretical studies. Specifically, the proposed approach captures the macroscopic manifestations of three micromechanial facts, even though microstructures are not explicitly modeled: (1) Individual grains with favorable orientations and stresses for transformation are the first to nucleate martensite, and the local nucleation strain is relatively large. (2) Then, transformation interfaces propagate according to growth kinetics to traverse networks of grains, while previously formed martensite may reorient. (3) Ultimately, transformation saturates prior to 100% completion as some unfavorably-oriented grains do not transform; thus the total transformation strain of a polycrystal is modest relative to the initial, local nucleation strain. The proposed formulation also accounts for tension–compression asymmetry, processing anisotropy, and the distinction between stress-induced and temperature-induced transformations. Consequently, the model describes thermoelastic responses of shape-memory alloys subject to complex, multi-axial thermo-mechanical loadings. These abilities are demonstrated through detailed comparisons of simulations with experiments.     

颗粒物质中的多尺度问题

颗粒物质是大量离散的固体颗粒相互作用而组成的复杂体系. 依据颗粒排布的稀疏程度,体系可分为颗粒气体、颗粒流体和颗粒固体,它们有不同本质的动量传递和能量耗散机制.后两者属于密集颗粒物质体系,内部形成了颗粒$\to $力链$ \to$体系的多尺度结构,并涉及多个特征时间尺度,是典型的多尺度体系. 合理分割体系结构层次、正确理解不同层次的物理过程、并确定它们之间的关联是密集颗粒物质研究的核心任务.本文依次分析了密集颗粒物质的内在物理图像、多尺度结构层次和特征时间等,并介绍了多尺度研究框架.     

Modelling multi-scale deformation of amorphous glassy polymers with experimentally motivated evolution of the microstructure

Novel experimental data, obtained recently using advanced multi-scale experiments, have been used to develop a micro-mechanically motivated constitutive model for amorphous glassy polymers. Taking advantage of the experiments, the model makes use of a microstructural deformation gradient to incorporate the experimentally obtained deformation of the microstructure, as well as its evolving orientation. By comparing results from the model to experimental data, it is shown that the proposed approach is able to accurately predict glassy polymer deformation over a wide range of length-scales, from the macroscopic response (mm range) down to the deformation of the microstructure (nm range). The proposed model is evaluated by comparing the numerical response to experimental results on multiple scales from an inhomogeneous cold drawing experiment of glassy polycarbonate. Besides the macroscopic force–displacement response, a qualitative comparison of the deformation field at the surface of the specimen is performed. Furthermore, the predicted evolution of the fabric orientation is compared to experimental results obtained from X-ray scattering experiments. The model shows very good agreement with the experimental data over a wide range of length scales.     

Multiscale aspects of heat and mass transfer during drying

The macroscopic formulation of coupled heat and mass transfer has been widely used during the past two decades to model and simulate the drying of one single piece of product, including the case of internal vaporization. However, more often than expected, the macroscopic approach fails and several scales have to be considered at the same time. This paper is devoted to multiscale approaches to transfer in porous media, with particular attention to drying. The change of scale, namely homogenization, is presented first and used as a generic approach able to supply parameter values to the macroscopic formulation. The need for a real multiscale approach is then exemplified by some experimental observations. Such an approach is required as soon as thermodynamic equilibrium is not ensured at the microscopic scale. A stepwise presentation is proposed to formulate such situations.