Load and Boundary Condition Calibration Using Full-field Strain Measurement

For critical load bearing structures, it is often necessary to experimentally determine the load distribution on the structure so that accurate finite element models can be developed for stress and fatigue life predictions. An inverse problem approach is presented here for computing or calibrating the loads and boundary conditions acting on a structure. This enables the creation of more accurate finite element models, especially for structures that have complicated load distribution and compliant boundary conditions. The method presented here involves minimizing the least square error between the strains computed using the finite element model and the strains and displacements obtained experimentally. The nodal loads and the compliance at fixed boundaries are treated as the variables in the optimization problem. The compliance is modeled as springs attached at the nodes that are on the boundary where the structure is restrained. The method is verified by computing the loads and boundary conditions when displacements, maximum shear strain or both are available at large number of points on the surface of the structure. The experimental data set was generated using the luminescent photoelastic coating (LPC) technique.     

消除电阻应变片大应变测量计算误差的算法研究

利用电阻应变片进行应变测量,特别在大应变测量时,测试电路输出电压与应变片应变并不是简单的线性关系.为减少或消除计算误差,提出按测试电路输出电压与应变片应变的非线性关系进行精确计算应变值,并提出了相应的改进算法应变计算公式,在单臂应变计感受应变测量场合,对大应变和小应变测量均适用,无计算误差,并得到了实验论证.同时提出了考虑应变片灵敏度系数修正和长导线电阻修正的改进算法应变计算公式,非常容易通过软件实现,可广泛应用于科学实验和工程测量.     

油浴润滑高速枢轴承摩擦系数变载荷测量方法

提出高速枢轴承摩擦系数变载荷测量方法并设计了试验装置,测量得到枢轴承在不同转速下的摩擦系数。各试验枢轴在相同转速下,摩擦系数测量值差别明显,这源于边界润滑的随机性和复杂性;但是各轴摩擦系数均随转速升高而降低,测量平均值在0.09~0.05之间,这表明随枢轴承转速升高,流体动压效应增强,薄膜润滑降低了轴尖与宝石接触概率。通过对轴承摩擦损耗的计算来分析测量方法的可靠性,并将该方法应用于螺旋槽油膜轴承,测得其摩擦系数在0.017~0.014之间。     

Strain Measurement Within a Single-lap Joint Using Embedded Strain Gages

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Plated and Intact Femur Strains in Fracture Fixation Using Fiber Bragg Gratings and Strain Gauges

This paper presents an experimental methodology to determine plated and intact femur strains using fiber Bragg gratings and strain gauges. A plated and an intact synthetic femur were used and loaded under a simplistic static load of 600 N. A stainless steel (316L) plate was used to fixate a simulated 45° fracture on one femur. Strains were recoded at the same sites on both femurs. Strain shielding is shown to be more pronounced at the distal region of the plated femur. The experimental methodology based on fiber Bragg grating sensors is a novel approach to assess bone plate strains, which could also be used to obtain biologic tissue and implant surface strains in locations where conventional strain gauge use is not technically feasible.     

Measurement of Strain/Load Transfer in Parallel Seven-wire Strands with Neutron Diffraction

The elastic strains induced in the constituent wires of parallel wire strands under tensile loading were measured using neutron diffraction. The elastic strains carried by the individual wires depended very strongly on the boundary conditions at the grips and on radial clamping forces. The friction forces between the wires were quite significant and should not be neglected in analytical or numerical formulations of strain partitioning in parallel wire cables.     

三维DIC在铸铁拉伸试验中的应变测量精度研究

基于三维数字图像相关方法(3D-DIC)的拉伸实验研究了铸铁的拉伸力学性能,分别得到了应力-应变曲线、弹性模量、抗拉强度、延伸率等拉伸力学性能参数．将3D-DIC应力-应变的测试结果与目前实验中使用广泛的接触式引伸计方法的实验结果作了对比,得到两者的应力-应变曲线基本重合,弹性模量相差不超过4%．此外,还对3D-DIC和机械引伸计的应变绝对误差和相对误差作了详细比较,实验表明3D-DIC在铸铁拉伸力学性能测试中具有足够的应变测量精度,完全可以取代传统引伸计成为一种有效的非接触式变形测量手段．     

基于荧光法的滚动轴承内部润滑油层分布研究

润滑油在轴承内的分布及其变化规律对轴承的润滑性能有显著影响. 在本文中搭建了滚动轴承模拟试验台,基于激光诱导荧光方法实现了滚动轴承内钢球-外圈接触区附近润滑油分布的观察与测量,获得了润滑油供给油层分布的三维形貌图,研究了不同供油量和转速对轴承内部供给油层分布的影响规律. 试验结果表明充分润滑条件下相邻钢球-外圈接触区供给油池之间会形成相互连接的油带;在高速情况下,钢球-外圈接触区供给油层厚度受前一个接触区尾部空穴影响而减小;供油量的增加会增大表观油池,但并不意味着入口有效供油层的增加.      

Experimental Study of the Influence of Changes in Load Direction on the Performance of a Crown Bearing

Laboratory tests have been carried out in order to investigate the influence of small changes in load direction on the performance of a steadily loaded hydrodynamic crown journal bearing. Hydrodynamic pressures, temperature distribution on the bush internal surface, shaft temperature, oil flow rate and bush torque were measured for fixed sets of operating conditions, at three different groove locations () with respect to the line of load ( = 0, –30, and +30 degrees). For each groove location quantitative information is provided concerning to the influence of applied load and shaft rotational speed on the performance characteristics. Changing the location of the groove around the load line did affect flow rate, bush torque and maximum hydrodynamic pressure, but only had a slight effect on bush maximum temperature.     

An Innovative Method for 3-D Shape,Strain and Temperature Full-Field Measurement Using a Single Type of Camera: Principle and Preliminary Results

An innovative technique for measuring both the shape, the displacement, the strain and the temperature fields at the surface of an object using a single stereovision sensor is proposed. The sensor is based on two off-the-shelf low-cost high-resolution uncooled CCD cameras. To allow both dimensional and thermal measurements, the sensor operates in the visible and near infrared (NIR) spectral band (0.7–1.1 μm), and a radiometric and geometric calibration of the sensor is required. This technique leads to a low-cost camera-based simplified instrumentation that gives simultaneously dimensional/kinematical and thermal field measurements.     

考虑滚道波纹度的推力球轴承油膜的测量与计算

使用能够模拟推力球轴承工作的光干涉油膜测量系统,在静态时基于Hertz接触理论测量得到了该轴承座圈滚道的波纹度变化,并测量了轴承工作一周的油膜变化情况.依据试验参数进行了钢球与玻璃盘接触以及钢球与座圈滚道接触的弹性流体动压润滑（EHL）数值分析.试验和理论分析均较好地验证了表面波纹度对润滑状态的影响,发现推力球轴承运动时油膜的变化和滚道的表面波纹度密切相关.     

Measurement of Residual Elastic Strains in a Titanium Alloy Using High Energy Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction

Residual elastic strains in a bent bar of titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V were measured using high energy diffraction on station 16.3 at SRS Daresbury. Using a single bounce Laue crystal monochromator, diffraction peaks were collected for reflections (00.2), (10.1), (10.2) and (11.0) from the hcp alpha phase of the titanium alloy. Reference values of the lattice spacing for each of the reflections were found from the diffraction pattern collected from a stress-free sampling volume. The residual elastic strain values calculated on the basis of each reflection were then computed and plotted as a function of position across the bent bar. The average macroscopic residual elastic strain was computed using an averaging procedure taking into account the multiplicity of each reflection. Energy dispersive white beam diffraction from the same bent bar was used to collect diffraction patterns over the range of lattice spacings between 0.8 and 2.2 Å. Detector calibration was carried out using the procedure described in Liu et al. (2005) and detailed interpretation of the energy dispersive profiles was carried out allowing the identification of average residual elastic strains in the two principal phases present in the titanium alloy considered, the α-Ti hcp and the β-Ti bcc phases. Peak-specific residual strain profiles computed on the basis of monochromatic measurements show significant differences reflecting the variation in the elastic and plastic properties with grain orientation, i.e., crystal anisotropy. Using the contrast between the elastic and plastic properties of different directions within the α-Ti hcp lattice, the difference between residual elastic strains measured for (00.2) and (11.0) reflections was plotted, as well as the ‘difference strain’ between (00.2) and (10.1) reflections. These profiles show a good qualitative correlation with the plastic strain profile introduced by inelastic bending that was computed from the analysis of Pawley refinement of the energy-dispersive diffraction measurements.     

Simultaneous Measurement of Velocity and Fluctuating Pressure in a Turbulent Wing-tip Vortex Using Triple Hot-film Sensor and Miniature Total Pressure Probe

We have developed a probe-system for simultaneous measurement of three velocity components and pressure in turbulent flows. A miniature total pressure probe is placed adjacent to the sensors of a triple hot-film probe in order to achieve the spatial resolution which is equivalent to that of the triple hot-film probe itself. The instantaneous static pressure is calculated from measured velocity and total pressure by means of a newly developed processing method based on the Bernoulli equation for unsteady flows. The measurements were undertaken in a turbulent wing-tip vortex flow. The look-up table method is employed for the calibration of the hot-film probe so accurate velocity data could be obtained over a wide range of the flow-attack angles. It is also demonstrated that the present probe-system is capable of measuring fluctuations in both velocity and pressure in the 20?C650 Hz frequency range. The distribution of the fluctuating pressure obtained by this indirect method is in good agreement with the results from direct measurements of static pressure, demonstrating the promising performance of the present method. Furthermore, an improvement in the ability to make measurements of the velocity?Cpressure correlation across the wing-tip vortex is achieved. This improvement is possible because the effects of lateral velocity components are properly taken into account in the present formulation. The investigation regarding the transport equation budget for turbulent kinetic energy shows an anomalous structure of turbulence in this flow, mainly due to the meandering of the vortex, and the measurement of pressure diffusion is found to play an important role in the characterization of this kind of flow.