Elastic constants measurement of anisotropic Olivier wood plates using air-coupled transducers generated Lamb wave and ultrasonic bulk wave

A hybrid elastic wave method is applied to determine the anisotropic constants of Olive wood specimen considered as an orthotropic solid. The method is based on the measurements of the Lamb wave velocities as well as the bulk ultrasonic wave velocities. Electrostatic, air-coupled, ultrasonic transducers are used to generate and receive Lamb waves which are sensitive to material properties. The variation of phase velocity with frequency is measured for several modes propagating parallel and normal to the fiber direction along a thin Olivier wood plates. A numerical model based mainly on an optimization method is developed; it permits to recover seven out of nine elastic constants with an uncertainty of about 15%. The remaining two elastic constants are then obtained from bulk wave measurements. The experimental Lamb phase velocities are in good agreement with the calculated dispersion curves. The evaluation of Olive wood elastic properties has been performed in the low frequency range where the Lamb length wave is large in comparison with the heterogeneity extent. Within the interval errors, the obtained elastic tensor doesn’t reveal a large deviation from a uniaxial symmetry.     

红外光谱和热重分析法评估三种加固剂对“小白礁Ⅰ号”考古木材微力学性能的影响

随着社会对木质文物重视程度的提高和现代考古技术的进步,饱水木质文物得到不断发掘和保护。饱水木质文物木材的细胞形态和化学结构普遍发生非均匀降解或变化,成为了不同于健康木材的“新材料”。PEG法和糖法作为国际通用的脱水加固方法可避免饱水木质文物干燥过程中收缩变形。本研究选用“小白礁Ⅰ号”沉船主要用材树种柚木（Tectona sp.）为试验对象,分别使用PEG、三氯蔗糖和海藻糖加固,并在开发的适用于脆弱木质文物的非包埋式纳米压痕样品制备方法的基础上,通过纳米压痕力学技术（NI）评估了三种饱水木质文物常用加固处理方法对考古木材微力学性能的影响;同时,结合红外光谱法（FTIR）和热重分析（TGA）方法,进一步揭示了加固剂种类影响考古木材微力学性能的原因。研究结果表明：使用非包埋法制备的纳米压痕样品,可准确获取加固处理后考古木材细胞壁的纵向弹性模量和硬度;PEG法、三氯蔗糖法和海藻糖法均可显著提高考古木材木纤维细胞壁的纵向弹性模量和硬度,三种方法加固处理后的木材的弹性模量比未处理样品分别增加了6.9%,25.4%和29.1%,硬度比未处理样品分别增加了9.3%,25.9%和13.6%。红外光谱试验结果表明PEG、三氯蔗糖和海藻糖均进入了考古木材细胞腔等内部组织结构,热重分析结果证实部分加固剂进入了木材细胞壁,是细胞壁强度提高的主要原因。总之,三氯蔗糖和海藻糖较适用于饱水考古木材的脱水加固,加固效果优于PEG,其中三氯蔗糖的加固效果最佳。研究结果为饱水木质文物加固性能的准确评估提供了方法参考,为沉船等饱水木质文物的加固与保护提供了科学依据。     

基于光谱和图像特征的阔叶木材与针叶木材同时分类算法研究

木材是人们生活中必不可少的可再生资源,同时在建筑、工艺、家具、结构材料等方面有着举足轻重的地位。市场中常见的木材品种繁多,其品质和价格千差万别,使用智能化技术对木材进行正确的分类不仅可以防止不法商贩“以次充好”,也可以大幅度降低木材分类人员的工作难度。通过木材的遗传信息和解剖学信息可以得到较为准确的木材分类结果,这类方法识别工艺相对复杂,对非专业人员并不友好。借助木材切面的图像信息或光谱信息可以简单方便地对木材进行分类,然而由于不同种木材之间存在的近似性,这类方法往往分类精度不高或只适用于某些阔叶木材。提出了一种基于木材横切面图像信息和光谱信息的多特征木材分类算法,首先分别采集木材横切面的光谱信息以及图像信息;再使用Segnet图像分割方法将待分类样本分成含管孔木材和不含管孔木材两组,并对含管孔样本组中的木材进行管孔分割;然后对含管孔样本组中的木材提取管孔特征、光谱特征以及纹理特征,对无管孔样本组木材提取光谱特征和纹理特征;最后根据这些特征使用支持向量机分别对木材进行分类并记录其木材的分类结果,对分类结果不一致的样本使用相似性判据判断最佳分类结果。为了验证该方法的有效性,以20种常见的阔叶木材和针叶木材的混合样本集为研究对象,对其进行了分类。实验结果显示三种特征均可以对木材进行分类,单独使用光谱特征、纹理特征以及管孔特征对木材进行分类的最高正确率分别为93.00%,89.33% 和69.23%,通过相似测度的判断后三个特征可以相互补充从而进一步提高木材的分类正确率,最高正确率可达98.00%。综上所述,该方法可以对包含阔叶木材和针叶木材的混合样本集中的木材进行分类,木材横切面的光谱特征、纹理特征以及管孔特征可以相互补充,从而使分类正确率进一步的提高。与目前的主流木材分类方法进行对比,发现该算法的分类正确率高于其他算法。     

Determination of moisture fraction in wood by mobile NMR device

A mobile NMR probe has been used as a non-destructive and non-invasive tool for water content analysis on wood samples. The porosity index, express as the fraction of the sensitivity volume of the probe occupied by water, is here proposed as an alternative to the moisture content index, namely the amount of water mass with respect to the mass of dried sample. In principle the method can be applied to any kind of porous media that has not detectable proton signal from the rigid matrix as, for instance, in building materials. In wood, where proton signal can be detected also from cellulose and others macromolecular components, some considerations and artifices are here proposed for eliminating this contribution. The method has allowed performing moisture volume fraction analysis on wood samples characterized by different wood species, cutting and moisture contents. The NMR data of moisture detection as volume fraction have successfully been compared with those obtained by the gravimetric method.     

Ultrasonic absorption in wood

Mechanisms of ultrasonic absorption by wood are considered. The difference between the nonuniformity of temperature changes within a sample and on its surface upon ultrasonic treatment is shown. A method for measuring this nonuniformity using the thermoelectric properties of wood is proposed.     

Surface wave propagation in wood: prospective method for the determination of wood off-diagonal terms of stiffness matrix

Overall elastic properties of wood can be studied by ultrasonic methods. Orthotropic symmetry is assumed (nine constants). This article describes two methods developed for the determination of three off-diagonal terms of the stiffness matrix. The first method deals with bulk waves (BAW), and the second with surface wave (SAW) measurements. The BAW method requires repeated off-axis measurements and an optimization criterion for selecting the C_ij-terms. The SAW method gives the value of the C_ij-term corresponding to a specific plane of symmetry, from only one on-axis measurement. The six diagonal terms of the stiffness matrix can be obtained easily from on-axis bulk wave measurements. From the nine terms of the matrix, the compliance terms (S_ij) and corresponding technical terms are calculated. Technical constants determined from ultrasonic measurements are in agreement with those obtained by classical statistical methods. The experiments were performed on beech and spruce. The SAW technique is expected to be of more interest for further investigations of wood mechanical properties.     

Ultrasonic, hardness and x-ray densitometric analysis of wood

Ultrasonic, hardness and x-ray densitometric methods were used to predict the wood quality of Douglas fir sapwood from pruned and control trees. Measurements were performed on logs and on increment cores.

On logs, hardness was tested by a pilodyn instrument. Longitudinal waves (80 kHz) were used to measure the velocity in the radial anisotropic direction of the wood. Surface waves of the same frequency were employed to measure the velocity on the circumference of the log in the longitudinal anisotropic direction of the wood.

On increment cores, 1 MHz waves, longitudinal and transverse, were used to measure the velocity of ultrasonic pulses along three anisotropic axes of the wood, using the through-transmission technique.

The predictive power of the pilodyn test and of the surface wave velocity method for logs was judged in relation to several independent variables on cores given by the densitometric method and by ultrasonic velocities and elastic constants of the wood.     

Relative intensities in X-ray photoelectron spectra: Part VII. The effect of elastic scattering in a solid on the angular distribution of photoelectrons escaping from samples covered with thin films of various thicknesses

The angular distributions of X-ray photoelectron peak intensity for (1) a semi-infinite sample, (2) a substrate sample covered with a film, and (3) an overlayer sample are calculated by the Monte-Carlo method. The elastic as well as the inelastic scattering of electrons in a solid is taken into account. In all cases the elastic scattering is shown to have a significant effect on both the absolute value of peak intensity and the angular distribution of photoelectrons. The electron mean free paths without inelastic collisions (λ_n) calculated using formulas derived without taking account of elastic scattering are shown to differ significantly from the real values. Moreover, the λ_n values calculated in this way are not physical constants at all, but depend for example on the film thickness and the intervals of photoelectron take-off angles under consideration. The elastic scattering effect is shown capable of explaining some difficulties which arise in the interpretation of experimental data reported in the literature on the basis of expressions derived taking into account only the inelastic interactions of photoelectrons with a solid.     

Investigation of lithium forward scattering for the analysis of carbon and oxygen in human amniotic fluid

Lithium forward elastic scattering is investigated as an additional method for Z<11 multielemental analysis in human amniotic fluid (AF). Concentrations of C and O are obtained from the analysis of an AF sample that is diluted with distilled water, deposited on a formvar backing and dried naturally. Solid residues of this diluted sample are bombarded with 13 MeV ^6,7Li beams and the elastically scattered beam is detected at 16.45^o, 20.45^o and 28.0^o simultaneously. The quality of elastic spectra improves with sample dilution. The content of C and O in the backing is subtracted. Carbon and oxygen concentrations of the non-diluted AF sample are determined by assuming that elemental concentration varies linearly with dilution.     

Young’s modulus and internal friction of the SiC/Si biomorphic composite based on the sapele wood precursor

The effect of the vibrational strain amplitude on the Young’s modulus and ultrasound absorption (internal friction) of a SiC/Si biomorphic composite prepared by pyrolysis of sapele wood followed by infiltration of silicon were investigated. The studies were conducted in air and in vacuum by the acoustic resonance method with the use of a composite vibrator in longitudinal vibrations at frequencies of about 100 kHz. Measurements performed on sapele wood-based bio-SiC/Si samples revealed a substantial effect of adsorption-desorption of molecules contained in air on the effective elasticity modulus and elastic vibration decrement. Microplastic characteristics of the SiC/Si composites prepared from wood of different tree species were compared.     

“南海Ⅰ号”沉船木材的微束XRF面扫描分析

“南海Ⅰ号”是一艘南宋时期的木质商船，沉没于我国广东省阳江市东平港以南约20海里处，发现于1987年，经多次水下考古调查后，于2007年严格按照水下考古规范，成功地将其整体打捞出水，迄今为止中国境内发现的年代最早、船体最大、保存最完整的古沉船。由于在海底埋藏达800年之久，因此船体和及其所承载的木质文物，在海水中盐份以及各种微生物的协同作用下，发生了严重的物理化学和生物降解作用，使得原有的木材成分大量降解流失，木质纤维间的支撑力减少，导致强度降低，结构糟朽。硫铁化合物是海洋出水木材的重要病害来源，因此铁、硫元素的含量、分布以及赋存状态，对海底出水有机质材料的研究和保护具有重要的学术价值。由于制样和传统方法限制，难以对出水木材中的铁和硫进行原位无损分析，同时分析速度和测量成本亦是难以克服的困难。微束X射线荧光技术，特别是基于常规X光管的微聚焦技术，为该问题提供了便捷、快速、可靠、无损和低成本的解决方案。基于此，选择“南海Ⅰ号”出水船体为研究对象，应用最新的多导毛细管微聚焦X射线荧光光谱技术，并结合拉曼光谱分析，对出水木材中的铁、硫含量和分布进行了面扫描分析。结果指出，样品中的铁、硫元素分布不均，存在多种赋存形态，揭示了元素分布特点和规律为研究水木材中硫、铁的来源、富集以及耦合关系等提供了线索。研究表明，微束XRF技术可有效分析不规则、不均匀的饱水木材中不同部位铁、硫丰度，在二维尺度上揭示元素的分布情况以及其相关性。研究结果可为探讨海洋出水木材中的硫、铁及其化合物的沉积和循环机制以及相关文物保护和修复工作，提供重要的科学支持和有益借鉴。     

Influence of a Static Reversible Loading on Mechanical and Elastic Properties of Polycrystalline Aluminum Alloy AMg6

The paper presents results from experimental studies on the influence of loading–unloading processes on the mechanical, linear, and nonlinear properties of the strain-hardening polycrystalline aluminum alloy AMg6 (Rus). The stress–strain curve is measured for AMg6 samples under high-cycle loading–unloading up to fracture of a sample. The microhardness of the sample is measured before and after its fracture. It has been found that the loading–unloading process leads to strain hardening of the AMg6 alloy. The influence of strain hardening of AMg6 on its linear and nonlinear elastic properties is studied by an ultrasonic method. To study the nonlinear elastic properties for different domains of the loading curve, we used the Thurston–Brugger method and spectral method by studying the efficiency of second acoustic harmonic generation. The experimental results are discussed.     

Young’s modulus and internal friction in porous biocarbon white pine wood precursors

This paper reports on a study performed in the temperature range 100–293 K, in air and in vacuum, for the amplitude and time dependences of the Young’s modulus and the internal friction (ultrasound damping) of biocarbon precursors prepared from white pine wood at two pyrolysis (carbonization) temperatures of 1000 and 2400°C. The measurements have been conducted by the resonance technique with a composite vibrator on samples cut along and across the tree growth direction. The desorption of molecules of the external medium at low amplitudes of ultrasonic vibrations has been found to produce the pronounced influence on the effective elastic modulus and elastic vibration decrement. The data obtained from acoustic measurements of the amplitude dependences of the elastic modulus have been used to estimate the microplastic properties of the samples. It has been shown that increasing the carbonization temperature gives rise to noticeable changes in the Young’s modulus and internal friction, as well as to reduction of the microplastic stress σ _y of the biomaterial studied. The stress σ _y of the samples cut across the growth direction has been found to be substantially smaller than that of the “longitudinal” samples. The elastic and microplastic properties of precursors prepared from white pine wood have been compared with those of the white eucalyptus wood.     

基于可见光谱通道的松树年轮参数获取方法研究

年轮参数是树木生长的重要指标。目前年轮的检测方法主要有人工测量法、扫描仪法和X射线法等。这些方法费时费力、检测成本高、操作难度大。为此,提出采用可见光谱进行年轮参数检测的新方法。首先针对活立木年轮检测需求,设计了木芯专用可见光谱分析装置。装置采用宽光谱对称式光源,封闭式暗箱设计,彩色CCD外置、固定距离采集方式。进而采集样品全彩色图像,分别提取不同光谱通道数据进行分析,最终获得年轮特征光谱参数。以从松树活立木钻取的木芯为例,经打磨后的木芯水平固定于载物台,光源均匀照射样品,CCD采集木芯漫反射RGB图像,基于对木芯全彩色图像的不同光谱通道的分析,分别提取RGB三帧灰度图像的强度曲线,区分早晚材分界线,得到树木年轮各项指标,实现树木年轮参数的快速提取。实验首先将CCD采集的RGB图像转换至NTSC色彩空间,以扩大色彩域。在设置滤波窗滤除背景,截取出木芯图像后,通过提取木芯图像的R,G和B三灰度分量图像,发现木芯B灰度图的早晚材区域差异最分明。基于该特征,可提取出早晚材分界线的位置信息。对木芯B灰度分量图微分,得到灰度沿水平方向的空间梯度。确定灰度变化率极大值对应的各点,鉴于木芯生长特性,灰度变化率极大值对应空间位置首先取为窄像素区域,进而在窄像素区域取中间值,此即木芯年轮各早晚材的中心点。其中,早材中心点对应光谱曲线的极大值,晚材中心点对应光谱曲线的极小值。结合专家经验,建立早晚材中心点与分界线的灰度关系,可得各分界线的位置。通过早晚材分界线与年轮各参数的关系,可进一步得出年轮各项指标。对比3位林木育种专家人工识别结果,本方法检测结果除了在木芯靠近端点处的位置外,都具有极高的准确度。采用可见光谱通道的数据采集与分析方法检测树木年轮参数,检测过程可实现全自动,高效、无损,精度可达到0.1 mm,结果精确。相比于人工测量法、扫描仪法,检测效率更高;相比于X射线法,检测过程更加安全、低耗,操作更方便。是一种具有较强应用性的方法。     

Li2O-Al2O3-SiO2微晶玻璃表面粗糙度对纳米硬度测试的影响

 介绍了纳米压痕测试技术的基础理论及纳米压痕法常用的Oliver -Pharr方法的计算原理。采用纳米压痕试验测得不同表面粗糙度的Li2O-Al2O3-SiO2微晶玻璃样品的纳米硬度、弹性模量和载荷-位移曲线。结果表明样品表面粗糙度会降低纳米压痕测试结果的稳定性、准确性和可靠性：样品表面粗糙度越小,测得的纳米硬度和弹性模量值波动越小,载荷-位移曲线重合性越高。随着最大载荷的增大,测得的弹性模量逐渐减小,其原因是压痕边缘材料发生了塑形变形。在超光滑表面样品（Ra=0.9 nm）上测得较为准确的Li2O-Al2O3-SiO2微晶玻璃纳米硬度和弹性模量值分别为8.8 GPa和7.79 GPa。纳米压痕测试结果的重合度对于评价超光滑表面完整性研究具有指导意义。     

Determination of tip–sample interaction forces from measured dynamic force spectroscopy curves

The forces between a sharp tip and a sample are characteristic for different sample materials. A new method for quantifying the elastic tip–sample interaction forces from measured frequency vs. distance curves is presented. The dynamic force–spectroscopy curves investigated were obtained by dynamic force microscopy under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions for large vibration amplitudes with commercial levers/tips. The full non-linear force–distance relationship is deduced via a numerical algorithm, where the equation of motion describing the oscillation of the tip is solved explicitly. The elastic force distance dependence can be determined by fitting the results of a computer simulation to experimental frequency vs. distance data. The obtained force–distance curves can be compared quantitatively with theoretical models.     

A Wavelet-Based Processing method for simultaneously determining ultrasonic velocity and material thickness

Methods of measuring ultrasonic wave velocity in an elastic sample require data on the thickness of the sample and/or the distances between the transducers and the sample. The uncertainty of the ultrasonic wave velocity measurements generally depends on that of the data available. Conversely, to determine the thickness of a material, it is necessary to have a priori information about the wave velocity. This problem is particularly hard to solve when measuring the parameters of biological specimens such as bones having a greater acoustical impedance contrast (typically 3-5 MRayl) than that of the surrounding soft tissues (typically 1.5 MRayl). Measurements of this kind cannot easily be performed. But obtaining the thickness of a bone structure and/or the ultrasonic wave velocity is a important problem, for example, in biomechanical field for the calculation of elastic modulus, or in acoustical imaging field to parameterize the images, and to reference the grey or color level set to a physical parameter.The aim of the present study was to develop a method of simultaneously and independently determining the velocity of an ultrasonic wave in an elastic sample and the wave path across the thickness of this sample, using only one acquisition in pure transmission mode. The new method, which we have called the “Wavelet-Based Processing” method, is based on the wavelet decomposition of the signals and on a suitable transmitted incident wave correlated with the experimental device, and the mathematical properties such as orthonormality, of which lend themselves well to the time-scale approach. By following an adapted algorithm, ultrasonic wave velocities in parallelepipedic plates of elastic manufactured material and the apparent thicknesses were both measured using a water tank, a mechanical device and a matched pair of 1 MHz ultrasonic focused transducers having a diameter of 3 mm, a focal length of 150 mm and beam width of 2 × 2 mm at the focus (mean temperature 22°). The results were compared with those obtained with a conventional Pulse-mode method and with the control values, to check their validity. Measurements performed on bovine and human dry cortical bone samples are also presented to assess the limitations of the method when it is applied to elastic biological samples, including those of an equal-wavelength size (≈1.5 mm). The thicknesses and the ultrasonic wave velocities were then measured in this kind of (quasi-) parallelepipedic elastic materials with an mean estimated error ranged from 1% to 3.5% compared to the referenced values.     

Evaluation of adhesive and elastic properties of materials by depth-sensing indentation of spheres

Work of adhesion is the crucial material parameter for application of theories of adhesive contact. It is usually determined by experimental techniques based on the direct measurements of pull-off force of a sphere. These measurements are unstable due to instability of the load-displacement diagrams at tension, and they can be greatly affected by roughness of contacting solids. We show how the values of work of adhesion and elastic contact modulus of materials may be quantified using a new indirect approach (the Borodich?CGalanov (BG) method) based on an inverse analysis of a stable region of the force-displacements curve obtained from the depth-sensing indentation of a sphere into an elastic sample. Using numerical simulations it is shown that the BG method is simple and robust. The crucial difference between the proposed method and the standard direct experimental techniques is that the BG method may be applied only to compressive parts of the force-displacements curves. Finally, the work of adhesion and the elastic modulus of soft polymer (polyvinylsiloxane) samples are extracted from experimental load-displacement diagrams.     

采用特征融合的紫檀属内相似树种识别方法研究

紫檀属中的木材有很多属于名贵木材,不同树种之间十分相似。传统的木材识别方法多以木材解剖学为主,通过观察木材的切片结构特征对木材的树种进行判断,这类方法虽有较高的识别精度,但是其识别工艺较为复杂而且技术难度也相对较高。与木材解剖学相对应的是利用图像信息或光谱信息的木材树种识别方法,该类方法虽具有较为简单的识别工艺,但是在对同属相似木材树种进行识别时,往往不能够取得较好的识别效果。提出了一种基于木材切面光谱特征和纹理特征相融合的木材树种识别方法,该方法不仅识别工艺简单、自动化程度高,而且具有较高的识别精度。首先通过数码相机和光谱仪采集木材切面的图像信息和光谱信息,然后分别使用纹理特征提取方法和光谱特征提取方法提取两类特征的特征向量,接下来使用基于典型相关分析的特征级融合方法将这两个特征向量进行融合,最后使用支持向量机对融合后的特征向量进行分类识别。为了验证方法的有效性,以市场中常见的5种紫檀属树种的三个切面为研究对象,对这些木材树种进行了识别。实验结果显示,单独使用纹理特征的识别正确率最高为80.00%,单独使用光谱特征的识别正确率最高为94.40%,使用融合的特征最高的识别正确率可达99...     

Ultrasonic techniques for nondestructive testing of standing trees

The aim of this study is to assess wood quality of standing trees with ultrasonic velocity methods. The ultrasonic techniques currently used are: scattering based techniques that use travel time and other wave parameters for measuring the elastic constants of wood, and ultrasonic tomographic imaging techniques which seek to provide a high resolution picture of the defect. Scattering based techniques were firstly used as nondestructive techniques with increment cores of 5 mm diameter. On these specimens measurements with bulk waves--longitudinal and shear were used to detect the influence of sylvicultural treatment (pruning) on wood quality and also to detect defects (slope of grain, wavy figures). High resolution imaging techniques were developed for imaging abnormalities induced by biological attacks of fungi or insects in standing trees. In this case, ultrasonic tomography refers to cross-sectional imaging of trees from data collected by illuminating the tree from different directions. Ultrasonic images were reconstructed from the time of flight. The images were reconstructed from 120 measurements in situ and through the bark with direct transmission technique, using 1 MHz transducers. The resolution is 5 cm.