Thermal optimization on micromachined convective accelerometer

 A kind of micromachined convective accelerometer without solid proof mass is numerically and experimentally studied in this paper. The accelerometer consists of a micro heater and two temperature sensors which measure the temperature difference between two symmetrical positions on both sides of the micro heater. The temperature difference is caused by free convection due to acceleration. Thermal optimization on the accelerometer is conducted based on numerical simulation. Three important indexes of the accelerometer, linearity, sensitivity and frequency response are discussed respectively. The results show that linearity relates with the non-dimensional number Gr, only when Gr is in the range from 10⁻² to 10³, good linearity can be achieved. The optimum sensor position for high sensitivity and good linearity is near at x/D=0.3. An increase of heating power or cavity size leads to an increase in the sensitivity. The working media that has small density ρ and large thermal diffusivity α is favorable for fast frequency response, the one having large density ρ and small kinematic viscosity υ will be advantageous for high sensitivity. Experimental tests prove that the optimized convective accelerometer has good linearity, high sensitivity and preferable frequency response. Received on 9 March 2001 / Published online: 29 November 2001     

两端铰接的细长柔性圆柱体涡激振动响应特性数值研究

目前细长柔性圆柱体涡激振动响应的研究方法主要包括实验方法、计算流体动力学方法以及半经验模型方法. 鉴于实验方法研究成本较高、计算流体动力学方法计算时间较长,本文基于尾流振子模型对线性剪切来流下两端铰接的细长柔性圆柱体涡激振动响应特性进行了半经验模型方法研究. 先建立了柔性圆柱体结构振子以及尾流振子之间的耦合模型,紧接着基于二阶精度中心差分格式对耦合模型先离散后迭代进行求解. 对不同剪切参数下柔性圆柱体涡激振动响应的振动波长、振动频率、振动位移以及响应频率随时间的变化特性等参数进行了分析. 分析结果表明:圆柱体的涡激振动响应由驻波和行波混合组成. 当无量纲弯曲刚度较小时,在圆柱体两端附近,驻波占主导;而在圆柱体中间段附近,行波占主导. 当无量纲弯曲刚度较大时,在圆柱体整个长度区间上均为驻波占主导. 随着剪切参数的增大,振动位移以及振动波长均逐渐减小,而振动频率和频率带宽均逐渐增大.      

Nanoscale mass sensing based on vibration of single-layered graphene sheet in thermal environments简

Based on vibration analysis, single-layered graphene sheet （SLGS） with multiple attached nanoparticles is developed as nanoscale mass sensor in thermal environments. Graphene sensors are assumed to be in simplysupported configuration. Based on the nonlocal plate the- ory which incorporates size effects into the classical theory, closed-form expressions lot the frequencies and relative fre- quency shills of SLGS-based mass sensor are derived using the Galerkin method. The suggested model is justified by a good agreement between the results given by the present model and available data in literature. The effects of tem- perature difference, nonlocal parameter, the location of the nanoparticle and the number of nanoparticles on the relative frequency shift of the mass sensor are also elucidated. The obtained results show that the sensitivity of the SLGS- based mass sensor increases with increasing temperature difference.     

基于虚拟激励法的大跨度桥梁非平稳随机振动分析闭合解

针对大跨度结构考虑地面空间运动的非一致地震响应分析问题,结合虚拟激励法,应用傅里叶分析建立了结构非平稳随机振动响应演变功率谱分析的频域方法。建立的方法完全基于频域执行,给出了响应演变功率谱的闭合解表达式。由于实现了确定性调制过程与随机过程的有效分离,应用离散傅里叶变换进行计算不需要较高的采样分析频率就可以获得较好精度的数值结果。数值算例研究了某斜拉桥的考虑地面运动空间效应非平稳随机地震响应,与通常时频分析方法进行对比,验证了本文频域方法的正确性和有效性。     

自由端受磁力吸引悬臂梁的非线性振动

研究了含分式函数的非线性磁力系统的受迫振动。磁铁吸引力横向作用在悬臂梁自由端处。根据含有非线性边界的连续体模型,给出了非平凡静平衡位形。以稳定位形作坐标变换后,计算了相应的固有频率,并求得微幅受迫振动稳态响应的近似解析解。研究了不同磁铁间距与频响曲线的关系,结果表明磁力方向和大小对它们均有较大影响。数值结果与解析结果吻合得很好。     

Measurement of wall shear rate in large amplitude unsteady reversing flows

Wall shear rates in large amplitude unsteady flows that cause flow reversal can be measured by using two rectangular electrodes in a sandwich arrangement. The frequency response of this sandwich probe is studied numerically. An inverse mass transfer method is applied to recover the instantaneous shear rate from the measured difference in the mass transfer rate to the two segments. Experimental results for a turbulent pipe flow with imposed large amplitude sinusoidal oscillations are used to test the method.     

Dynamic stiffness of chemically and physically ageing rubber vibration isolators in the audible frequency range

The constitutive equations of chemically and physically ageing rubber in the audible frequency range are modelled as a function of ageing temperature, ageing time, actual temperature, time and frequency. The constitutive equations are derived by assuming nearly incompressible material with elastic spherical response and viscoelastic deviatoric response, using Mittag-Leffler relaxation function of fractional derivative type, the main advantage being the minimum material parameters needed to successfully fit experimental data over a broad frequency range. The material is furthermore assumed essentially entropic and thermo-mechanically simple while using a modified William–Landel–Ferry shift function to take into account temperature dependence and physical ageing, with fractional free volume evolution modelled by a nonlinear, fractional differential equation with relaxation time identical to that of the stress response and related to the fractional free volume by Doolittle equation. Physical ageing is a reversible ageing process, including trapping and freeing of polymer chain ends, polymer chain reorganizations and free volume changes. In contrast, chemical ageing is an irreversible process, mainly attributed to oxygen reaction with polymer network either damaging the network by scission or reformation of new polymer links. The chemical ageing is modelled by inner variables that are determined by inner fractional evolution equations. Finally, the model parameters are fitted to measurements results of natural rubber over a broad audible frequency range, and various parameter studies are performed including comparison with results obtained by ordinary, non-fractional ageing evolution differential equations.     

基于频响函数提升小波总能量的桁架结构随机模型修正

为了解决模型修正问题中的随机性,构建了一种基于提升小波总能量的随机模型修正方法.首先,将结 构的加速度频响函数进行提升小波变换,并提取提升小波总能量来代替加速度频响函数;然后,以待修正参数作为输入,提升小波总能量为输出构建响应面代理模型代替原来的有限元模型;接着,运用蒙特卡洛抽样抽取响应样本,并设定阈值筛选响应样本;最后,以代理模型预测得到的响应和抽样所得真实响应之间的差值最小为 目标函数,通过布谷鸟优化算法寻优求解待修正参数的均值.算例表明,所提方法修正后参数的最大误差小于3.3％,相应的频响函数曲线重合度高.     

Numerical and experimental studies on the hydrodynamic damping of a zero-thrust propeller

Fluid added mass and damping are significant parameters when predicting the dynamic response of a submerged structure. The hydrodynamic damping of underwater rotating machinery is numerically and experimentally investigated by a zero-thrust propeller in this paper. The lifting surface method(LSM) combined with forced vibration was introduced as the numerical method to compute the corresponding unsteady thrust, while the experimental method of measuring added damping was accomplished by a propeller undergoing rotation combined heave motion. Results of the theoretical method are in good agreement with the experimental results before cavitation occurs, as cavitation is regarded to weaken the unsteady response of the propeller partly. The calculation results also show that both the frequency ratio(vibration frequency divided by rotation frequency) and the blade angle have a significant influence on the hydrodynamic damping. Therefore, the effect of blade angle on hydrodynamic damping should be considered during the design phase.     

Drift response of bilinear hysteretic systems under two-frequency excitations

Response characteristics of bilinear hysteretic systems are investigated under two-frequency excitation. The excitation involves a predominate frequency component superimposed by a weaker high-frequency component having an integer frequency ratio. Depending on the frequency ratio, the long-term solutions show various forms of asymmetric response besides a symmetric steady-state response. In the limiting case of zero post-yielding stiffness, the displacement solution may exhibit a periodic-like response characterized by a constant drift increment occurring in each response cycle. To analyze the drift, two solution schemes, respectively, assuming uni-frequency and two-frequency response shapes are presented. Analytical results indicate that the frequency ratio and the phase difference of the two-frequency excitation highly influence not only the drift increment but also the direction of drift response. The effects associated with the addition of viscous damping are also investigated and discussed.     

时滞耦合质量摆动力吸振器减振系统的等峰优化理论与实验

摆式调谐质量阻尼器因其便于安装、维修、更换,且经济实用,广泛应用于结构减振.它通过将摆的自振频率调谐到接近主系统的控制频率,使摆产生与主系统相反的振动,从而抑制或消除主系统的振动.本文通过对主系统无阻尼的被动减振系统和主系统有阻尼的时滞反馈主动减振系统进行多目标优化设计,实现了对主系统幅频响应曲线的等峰控制和共振峰与反共振峰差值的有效控制.首先,建立了时滞耦合质量摆动力吸振器减振系统的力学模型和振动微分方程,通过对主系统无阻尼的被动减振系统进行等峰优化,获得了减振系统的最优频率比和质量摆的最优阻尼比.对于主系统存在阻尼的被动减振系统,在该优化参数下主系统的幅频响应曲线等峰优化失效.其次,对于主系统存在阻尼的时滞反馈优化控制系统,采用CTCR方法得到了反馈增益系数和时滞的稳定区域.在保证系统稳定的前提下,通过调节反馈增益系数和时滞量两个控制参数能够实现对主系统幅频响应曲线的等峰控制.再次,对共振点处主系统振幅放大因子时滞敏感度和反馈增益系数敏感度进行分析,表明共振点幅值对反馈增益系数比对时滞更为敏感.最后,通过实验分别在频域和时域内对理论结果进行了验证.研究表明,通过采用时滞反馈对摆式调...     

基于多尺度方法的平动圆柱贮箱航天器刚——液耦合动力学研究

以充液航天器为工程背景,借助多尺度方法研究刚--液耦合动力学系统非线性动力学特性.利用多维模态方法,将描述横向外激励下圆柱贮箱中液体非线性晃动的自由边界问题转换为液体模态系数相互耦合的有限维非线性常微分方程组.推导液体晃动产生的作用于贮箱壁的晃动力和晃动力矩的解析表达式,进而建立航天器刚体部分平动和液体晃动耦合的非线性动力学方程组.应用多尺度方法对刚--液耦合系统的动力学特性进行解析分析,通过固有频率的特征方程求解耦合系统固有频率,推导外激励频率接近耦合系统第一阶固有频率时液体晃动稳态解的幅值频率响应方程.结合数值方法,研究了液体晃动稳态解的幅值频率响应曲线和激励--幅值响应曲线.结果表明, 随充液比变化,液体晃动稳态解的幅值频率响应曲线会发生软、硬弹簧特性转换现象和"跳跃"现象;幅值频率响应曲线的软、硬弹簧特性转换点受重力加速度和弹簧刚度系数影响;以上所得研究结果表明,考虑非线性效应时的刚--液耦合系统动力学特性与传统的线性系统模型所显示的动力学特性具有本质区别.本文的研究工作对进一步分析充液航天器刚--液耦合非线性动力学特性具有重要参考价值.      

Nonlinear vibration of viscoelastic sandwich plates under narrow-band random excitations

The effect of the narrow-band random excitation on the non-linear response of sandwich plates with an incompressible viscoelastic core is investigated. To model the core, both the transverse shear strains and rotations are assumed to be moderate and the displacement field in the thickness direction is assumed to be linear for the in-plane components and quadratic for the out-of-plane components. In connection to the moderate shear strains considered for the core, a non-linear single-integral viscoelastic model is also used for constitutive modeling of the core. The fifth-order perturbation method is used together with the Galerkin method to transform the nine partial differential equations to a single ordinary integro-differential equation. Converting the lower-order viscoelastic integral term to the differential form, the fifth-order method of multiple scale is applied together with the method of reconstitution to obtain the stochastic phase-amplitude equations. The Fokker–Planck–Kolmogorov equation corresponding to these equations is then solved by the finite difference method, to determine the probability density of the response. The variation of root mean square and marginal probability density of the response amplitude with excitation deterministic frequency and magnitudes are investigated and the bimodal distribution is recognized in narrow ranges of excitation frequency and magnitude.     

Transient heat conduction in two-dimensional functionally graded hollow cylinder with finite length

In this paper a thick hollow cylinder with finite length made of two dimensional functionally graded material (2D-FGM) subjected to transient thermal boundary conditions is considered. The volume fraction distribution of materials, geometry and thermal boundary conditions are assumed to be axisymmetric but not uniform along the axial direction. The finite element method with graded material properties within each element is used to model the structure and the Crank–Nicolson finite difference method is implemented to solve time dependent equations of the heat transfer problem. Two-dimensional heat conduction in the cylinder is considered and variation of temperature with time as well as temperature distribution through the cylinder are investigated. Effects of variation of material distribution in two radial and axial directions on the temperature distribution and time response are studied. The achieved results show that using two-dimensional FGM leads to a more flexible design so that transient temperature, maximum amplitude and uniformity of temperature distributions can be modified to achieve required specifications by selecting a suitable material distribution profile in two directions.     

Forced response of quadratic nonlinear oscillator: comparison of various approaches

The primary resonances of a quadratic nonlinear system under weak and strong external excitations are investigated with the emphasis on the comparison of different analytical approximate approaches. The forced vibration of snap-through mechanism is treated as a quadratic nonlinear oscillator. The Lindstedt-Poincaré method, the multiple-scale method, the averaging method, and the harmonic balance method are used to determine the amplitude-frequency response relationships of the steady-state responses. It is demonstrated that the zeroth-order harmonic components should be accounted in the application of the harmonic balance method. The analytical approximations are compared with the numerical integrations in terms of the frequency response curves and the phase portraits. Supported by the numerical results, the harmonic balance method predicts that the quadratic nonlinearity bends the frequency response curves to the left. If the excitation amplitude is a second-order small quantity of the bookkeeping parameter, the steady-state responses predicted by the second-order approximation of the LindstedtPoincaré method and the multiple-scale method agree qualitatively with the numerical results. It is demonstrated that the quadratic nonlinear system implies softening type nonlinearity for any quadratic nonlinear coefficients.     

Effect of flow pulsation on laminar heat transfer between two parallel plates

The problem of heat transfer in viscous laminar pulsatile flow between two parallel plates is solved by means of a finite difference method. Boundary conditions of constant wall temperature and constant wall heat flux are considered separately. The numerical results show that flow pulsations change the instantaneous Nusselt number, but do not have any significant effect on the time-averaged values. A trend in reduction of timeaveraged Nusselt number is observed when the amplitude of flow pulsation increases and the frequency decreases. The validity of the result is limited to the case when no flow reversal exists.     

Some specific features and consequences of the thermal response of rubber under cyclic mechanical loading

The present paper deals with the specificities of the thermal response of rubber under cyclic mechanical loading at constant ambient temperature. This question is important, since the stabilized thermal response is used in fatigue life criteria, especially for the fast evaluation of fatigue life. For this purpose, entropic coupling in a thermo-hyperelastic framework is first used to predict the variation in the heat source produced or absorbed by the material during cyclic loading. The heat diffusion equation is then used to deduce temperature variations under adiabatic and non-adiabatic conditions. The influence of several parameters on the stabilized thermal response is studied: signal shape, frequency, minimum and maximum stretch levels, multiaxiality of the mechanical state. The results show that, in the steady-state regime, the mean value between the maximum and minimum temperature variations over a mechanical cycle is different from zero. This is due to the specific variation in the heat source, which depends on both the stretch rate and the stretch level. This result has numerous consequences, in particular for fatigue. Indeed, the stabilized mean value between the maximum and minimum temperature variations during fatigue tests does not reflect only fatigue damage, since the entropic coupling also leads to a value different from zero. This is a major difference with respect to materials exhibiting only isentropic coupling, such as metallic materials.     

A decoupled modal form Duffing equation for an orthotropic laminate in a clamped boundary condition with thermal diffusion

The non-linear thermo-elasticity response of an orthotropic laminate in a clamped boundary condition is analyzed by means of the method of weighted residuals for its behaviors subject to thermal and mechanical loading. The equation of motion for the laminate's deflection is obtained in the form of a decoupled modal form Duffing equation, without Berger's approximation. The thermal field, with both the in-plane and transverse temperature variations, is incorporated in both a steady-state and transient state. The formulation indicates that a transverse thermal field with a temperature rise produces a load onto the laminate, while the in-plane temperature variation affects the system frequency and stability. We demonstrate the numerical results of the modal response of an isotropic laminate for the thermal buckling and vibration.     

平稳高斯激励下线性结构随机振动分析的辅助简谐激励广义法

相比于时域法,频域法是更为高效、易行的随机振动分析方法,但对于平稳激励下的随机振动分析,现有频域方法常需振型截断或功率谱矩阵分解,将会影响计算精度和效率.为此,本文在频域法的框架下,针对平稳高斯激励下线性结构的随机振动分析提出了一种精确且高效的辅助简谐激励广义法.首先,引入广义脉冲响应函数和广义频响函数的概念,推导了与...     

Effect of Time Periodic Boundary Conditions on Convective Flows in a Porous Square Enclosure with Non-Uniform Internal Heating

The problem of unsteady natural convection in a square region filled with a fluid-saturated porous medium having non-uniform internal heating and heated laterally is considered. The heated wall surface temperature varies sinusoidally with the time about fixed mean temperature. The opposite cold wall is maintained at a constant temperature. The top and bottom horizontal walls are kept adiabatic. The flow field is modelled with the Darcy model and is solved numerically using a finite difference method. The transient solutions obtained are all periodic in time. The effect of Rayleigh number, internal heating parameters, heating amplitude and oscillating frequency on the flow and temperature field as well as the total heat generated within the convective region are presented. It was found that strong internal heating can generate significant maximum fluid temperatures above the heated wall. The location of the maximum fluid temperature moves with time according to the periodically changing heated wall temperature. The augmentation of the space-averaged temperature in the cavity strongly depends on the heating amplitude and rather insensitive to the oscillating frequency.