A four-phase confocal elliptical cylinder model for predicting the effective thermal conductivity of coated fibre composites

A four-phase confocal elliptical cylinder model is proposed from which a generalised self-consistent method is developed for predicting the thermal conductivity of coated fibre reinforced composites. The method can account for the influence of the fibre section shape ratio on conductivity, and the physical reasonableness of the model is demonstrated by using the fibre distribution function. An exact solution is obtained for thermal conductivity by applying conformal mapping and Laurent series expansion techniques of the analytic function. The solution to the three-phase confocal elliptical model, which simulates composites with idealised fibre–matrix interfaces, is arrived at as the degenerated case. A comparison with other available micromechanics methods, Hashin and Shtrikman's bounds and experimental data shows that the present method provides convergent and reasonable results for a full range of variations in fibre section shapes and for a complete spectrum of the fibre volume fraction. Numerical results show the dependence of the effective conductivities of composites on the aspect ratio of coated fibres and demonstrate that a coating is effective in enhancing the thermal transport property of a composite. The present solutions are helpful to analysis and design of composites.     

多组分复合薄膜的光学、电学、机械性能及其应用

复合薄膜因其可具有比单组份薄膜更加优异的性能而得到广泛的应用。通过以膜层的防护、催化、电学、光学以及力学性能等复合思想为切入点,阐述了通过膜层的复合掺杂旨在增强合金的抗腐蚀性,提高润滑摩擦性能,改善膜层的导电性能以及进行光学薄膜折射率和光谱吸收的调控,增强膜层的硬度及拉伸强度等机械性能的方法。对国内外的相关前沿成果进行简要介绍,并对复合薄膜的未来发展进行展望,为相关领域的研究提供参考。     

Soft magnetic moldable composites: Properties and applications

A new type of electromagnetic soft magnetic material (SMM) is introduced, based on spherical iron powder particles and a suitable polymer binder. A key feature of this material is that it can be cast or molded into almost any 3D shape, hence the denotation soft magnetic moldable composite (SM²C). The SM²C is compared with a set of reference materials, such as ferrites, laminated steels, and soft magnetic composites, in terms of primary properties such as permeability and loss, and other properties, such as thermal conductivity and manufacturability. The SM²C has the obvious disadvantage of relatively low permeability, but offers benefits such as relatively low losses and high potential for close integration into electromagnetic circuits. Some recent SM²C applications are illustrated, and design and manufacturing aspects are discussed.     

Thermal and Spectral Dielectric Properties of Polypyrrole/Polymethylmethacrylate Composites

Thermal properties of polypyrrole/polymethylmethacrylate (PPy/PMMA) composites were analyzed by thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). A decrease in the glass transition temperatures with PPy concentration reveals the increase of segmental motion. The dielectric properties of these composites were studied for several weight concentrations of PPy in the frequency range between 500 Hz and 0.2 MHz, over the temperature range 23–110°C. Jonscher's phenomenological model has been used for modeling the dielectric response of the composite materials. This study shows that the results obtained for the dielectric response are in good agreement with the results of TGA and DSC measurements.     

Micromechanical analysis of transverse damage of fibre-reinforced composites

The mechanical behaviour of fibre-reinforced composites under transverse tension, compression and shear is studied using computational micromechanics. The representative volume element is constructed for fibre’s random distribution. The Drucker–Prager model and cohesive zone model are used to simulate the matrix damage and interfacial debonding, respectively. The stress distribution along the interface is studied using the model with only one fibre embedded in the matrix. It is found that the interface tensile failure at the equators of fibre firstly occurs under transverse tension; the interface shear failure firstly occurs under transverse compression; both the interface tensile failure and shear failure occur under transverse shear. The direction of fracture plane is perpendicular to the loading direction under transverse tension, 52.5° with the perpendicular direction under compression and 7.5° with the perpendicular or vertical direction under shear, respectively.     

Dielectric and anharmonic behaviour of mixed alkali halides

Summary In the present paper an analysis of the dielectric behaviour and anharmonic contribution to the dielectric constants has been made of KCl−KBr mixed ionic crystals. The temperature and volume derivatives of static (ε₀), electronic (ε_∞) dielectric constants and energy gap parameter (E _g) have been calculated using the Szigeti and Havinga and Bosman dielectric theories. The anharmonic contributions have been estimated in terms of temperature derivatives of dielectric constants at constant volumes. The modified form of Clausius-Mossotti theory of dielectric polarization has been used for the mixed crystal under study. The calculated quantities have been compared with the available experimental data. A good agreement has been obtained. To speed up publication, the authors of this paper have agreed to not receive the proofs for correction.     

Dielectric and thermoelastic properties of alkaline-earth fluoride crystals

Summary An extended three-body force shell model is developed and used to make an analysis of the volume dependence of low- and high-frequency dielectric constants and thermoelastic Grüneisen parameters for CaF₂, SrF₂, BaF₂ and PbF₂ crystals. Lorentz-Lorenz and Clausius-Mossotti relations are modified in view of three-body interactions (TBI). Calculated results yield better agreement with the experimental data as compared to those obtained by previous investigators.

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Riassunto Si sviluppa un modello esteso a strati della forza a tre corpi e se ne fa uso per un'analisi della dipendenza dal volume delle costanti dielettriche a bassa e alta frequenza e dei parametri termoelastici di Grüneisen per cristalli di CaF₂, SrF₂, BaF₂ e PbF₂. Si modificano le relazioni di Lorentz-Lorenz e di Clausius-Mossotti in vista delle interazioni a tre corpi (TBI). I risultati calcolati sono in migliore accordo con i dati sperimentali di quelli ottenuti da precedenti studi.

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Резюме Предлагается оболочечная модель для протяженной трех-частичной силы. эта модель используется для анализа обьемной зависимости при низких и высоких частотах диэлектрических постоянных и термо-упругих параметров Грюнайзена для кристаллов CaF₂, SrF₂, BaF₂ и PbF₂. Для трех-частичных взаимодействий модифицируются соотношения Лоренц-Лоренца и Клаузиуса-Москотти. Вычисленные результаты дают лучшее согласие с экспериментальными данными, чем результаты других авторов.

     

Dielectric responses of graded composites having generalized gradation profiles

Under an external uniform electric field, the dielectric response of graded cylindrical composites having generalized dielectric profile inclusions is investigated. The generalized dielectric profile of graded cylindrical inclusion is expressed in the form, $\varepsilon _i (r)=c(b+ r)^k\e^{\beta r}$ where $r$ is the radial variable of the cylindrical inclusions and $c$, $b$, $k$ and $\beta $ are parameters. The local potential solution of generalized dielectric profile graded composites is derived by means of the power series method and the effective dielectric response is predicted in the dilute limit. Moreover, from the result of generalized profile, the analytical solutions of local potentials and the effective responses of graded composites having three cases of dielectric profiles, i.e., the exponential profile $\varepsilon_\i (r)=c\e^{\beta r}$, the general power law profile $\varepsilon_\i (r)=c(b+r)^k$ and the profile $\varepsilon_\i (r)=cr^k\e^{\beta r}$, are sorted out, respectively. In the dilute limit, our exact results are used to test the validity of differential effective dipole approximation (DEDA) for estimating the effective response of graded cylindrical composites, and it is shown that the DEDA is in excellent agreement with the exact result.     

纳米壳聚糖复合材料的制备与性能研究

为了提高壳聚糖的水溶性及其止血方面的性能,将壳聚糖(CS)纳米化,并引入具有抗菌作用的Ag~+离子和凝血辅助作用的Ca~(2+)离子,制备出纳米壳聚糖金属离子复合止血材料。首先,采用离子交换法制备纳米壳聚糖(nmCS),再分别加入AgNO_3和饱和CaCl2溶液,制得nmCS-Ag、nmCS-Ca、nmCS-Ag-Ca复合材料。然后,采用FTIR、XRD、SEM等手段对复合材料的结构进行表征。最后,对复合物的凝血、止血性能进行了测试。实验结果表明:改性后的壳聚糖IR图谱在1647cm-1和1560cm-1处出现了纳米壳聚糖钠盐的特征吸收峰;复合了金属离子的纳米壳聚糖在XRD图谱中表现出了Ag~+、Ca~(2+)的晶型特征;扫描电镜显示nmCS-Ag中Ag~+有部分析出而nmCS-Ca的复合效果较好;nmCS-Ag-Ca的凝血、止血效果要优于nmCS-Ag和nmCS-Ca,同时nmCS-Ag和nmCS-Ca的凝血、止血效果要优于nmCS。测试结果表明,成功制备了纳米壳聚糖金属离子复合止血材料。     

Eshelby's tensor fields and effective conductivity of composites made of anisotropic phases with Kapitza's interface thermal resistance

Eshelby's results and formalism for an elastic circular or spherical inhomogeneity embedded in an elastic infinite matrix are extended to the thermal conduction phenomenon with a Kapitza interface thermal resistance between matrix and inclusions. Closed-form expressions are derived for the generalized Eshelby interior and exterior conduction tensor fields and localization tensor fields in the case where the matrix and inclusion phases have the most general anisotropy. Unlike the relevant results in elasticity, the generalized Eshelby conduction tensor fields and localization tensor fields inside circular and spherical inhomogeneities are shown to remain uniform even in the presence of Kapitza's interface thermal resistance. With the help of these results, the size-dependent overall thermal conduction properties of composites are estimated by using the dilute, Mori–Tanaka, self-consistent and generalized self-consistent models. The analytical estimates are finally compared with numerical results delivered by the finite element method. The approach elaborated and results provided by the present work are directly applicable to other physically analogous transport phenomena, such as electric conduction, dielectrics, magnetism, diffusion and flow in porous media, and to the mathematically identical phenomenon of anti-plane elasticity.     

A negative-stiffness phase in elastic composites can produce stable extreme effective dynamic but not static stiffness

We investigate the effective elastic properties and overall stability of four specific two-phase elastic composite systems having a non-positive-definite phase (often referred to as a negative-stiffness phase) to determine whether or not the presence of the negative-stiffness phase can lead to stable extreme overall stiffness. We start with an instructive spring-mass model to illustrate the underlying physical mechanisms before proceeding to the two- and three-dimensional two-phase solids of coated cylindrical and coated spherical inclusions, and we finally study a general particle-matrix composite. For all examples, we correlate effective stiffness with overall stability to demonstrate that the static effective stiffness measures can never reach extreme values due to the inclusion of a negative-stiffness phase in a stable manner, while dynamic loading indeed permits resonance-induced extreme effective stiffness.     

Eu掺杂TbMnO3多晶材料的介电性质

采用固相反应法制备了Tb_0.8Eu_0.2MnO₃多晶材料.对样品的X射线衍射（XRD）分析表明Eu³⁺固溶于TbMnO₃中.测量了样品在低温(100 K ≤T≤ 300 K)和低频下(200 Hz≤f≤100 kHz)的复介电性质.在此温度区间内发现了两个介电弛豫峰.经分析认为低温峰（T≈170 K）起源于局域载流子漂移引起的偶极子极化效应,而高温峰（T≈290 K）则是由离子电导产生的边界和界面层的电容效应引起的.电阻率的测量显示在低温下（T≈230 K）存在明显的导电机制转变. 关键词： 多铁性材料 掺杂 介电性质     

Effective Anisotropic Dielectric Properties of Crystal Composites

Transformation fieM method （TFM） is developed to estimate the anisotropic dielectric properties of crystal composites having arbitrary shapes and dielectric properties of crystal inclusions, whose principal dielectric axis are different from those of anisotropic crystal matrix. The complicated boundary-value problem caused by inclusion shapes is circumvented by introducing a transformation electric field into the crystal composites regions, and the effective anisotropic dielectric responses are formulated in terms of the transformation field. Furthermore, the numerical results show that the effective anisotropie dielectric responses of crystal composites periodically vary as a function of the rotating angle between the principal dielectric axes of inclusion and matrix crystal materials. It is found that at larger inclusion volume fraction the inclusion shapes induce profound effect on the effective anisotropic dielectric responses.     

低声阻抗复合压电陶瓷的研究及应用

本文研究了我们所配制夹心结构复合压电材料低声阻抗的特性。实验表明，夹心复合压电陶瓷材料的声阻抗，与所用陶瓷材料的种类，气孔率，孔径，样品厚度以及工艺制备过程有关。实验证明，研制特定阻抗的材料是可行的，最后，用研制的新材料成功地应用于混凝土、Ｃ／Ｃ复合材料等非金属材料的超声检测中。     

Dielectric behavior and charge transport in polyaniline nanofiber reinforced PMMA composites

PAni nanofibers synthesized by interfacial polymerization were reinforced in the PMMA matrix in different weight ratios. Randomly oriented polyaniline nanofibers were observed in the TEM image with diameter ranging from 20 to 30 nm. The SEM revealed the microstructure of the fiber reinforced composites showing better connectivity. The XRD spectra of the composites showed peaks at 2θ=17.05°, 20.3°, 27.15° and 30.05° that were indexed in a pseudo-orthorhombic unit cell. The dielectric constant measured over a frequency range of 42 Hz-1 MHz and in the temperature range of 303-373 K showed dependence upon frequency, temperature and concentration of the conducting nanofibers in the composites. The ac conductivity (σ_ac) was interpreted as a power law of frequency. The frequency exponent s was found to lie in the range from 0.4 to 0.65 and decreased with the increase in temperature, which suggested that correlated barrier hopping (CBH) was the dominant charge transport mechanism. Existence of polarons as major charge carriers was confirmed by the low values of polaron binding energy (W_M). Decrease in the values of density of states N(E_F) with the increase in PAni nanofiber concentration indicated increased delocalization of electronic states in the band gap causing the increase in ac conductivity.     

Polyethylene green composites modified with post agricultural waste filler: thermo-mechanical and damping properties

The aim of the study was to determine thermo-mechanical properties and applicability of sunflower husk waste as a filler for ultra low density polyethylene composites. The post agricultural waste filler was milled and chemically treated with (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (3-APS). The amount of filler used was 5, 10 and 20 wt%. The mechanical and thermal properties of the composites containing unmodified and modified natural fillers were determined in the course of static tensile test, rebound resilience by Schob method, and dynamic mechanic thermal analysis. The influence of filler loading and chemical modification of the filler on the morphology of natural composites was evaluated by SEM analysis.     

Dielectric, ferroelectric, magnetic and magnetoelectric properties of PMN-PT based ME composites

A systematic study of magnetoelectric composite system (x) CoFe₂O₄+(1−x) Pb(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)_0.67Ti_0.33O₃ with x=0, 0.15, 0.30, 0.45 and 1 was carried out. The lattice strain was calculated using Williamson and Hall equation, which depends on the content of constituent phases in composites. The microstructure was studied using scanning electron microscopy. The ferroelectric transition temperature was independent of the content of individual phases, suggesting that the ferroelectric character is maintained in the composite. Observed P–E and M–H loops indicate that the multiferroic nature of magnetoelectric ceramics is dependent on the content of individual phases. The variation of magnetostriction with dc magnetic field was studied. The maximum magnetoelectric voltage coefficient of 7.2 mV/cm Oe is obtained for the synthesized composites. The magnetoelectric measurements are well explained with magnetostrictive behavior of the magnetic phase.     

Dielectric properties of electrospun titanium compound/polymer composite nanofibres

Poly(vinylpyrrolidone)/tetrabutyl titanate (PVP/ [CH3(CH2)3O]4Ti) composite nanofibres are prepared by elec- trospinning. After calcining parts of composite nanofibres in air at 700 C, petal-like TiO2 nanostructures are obtained. The characterizations of composite nanofibres and TiO2 nanostructures are carried out by a scanning electron micro- scope, an x-ray diffractometer, and an infrared spectrometer. Electrospun nanofibres are pressed into pellets under different pressures in order to explore their dielectric properties. It is found that the dielectric constants decrease with frequency increasing. The dielectric constant of the composite nanofibre pellet increases whereas its dielectric loss tangent decreases due to the doped titanium ions compared with those of pure PVP nanofibre pellets. In addition, it is observed that the dielectric constant of the composite nanofibre pellet decreases with the increase of the pressure applied in pelletization.     

Eu掺杂TbMnO3多晶材料的介电性质

采用固相反应法制备了Tb_0.8Eu_0.2MnO₃多晶材料.对样品的X射线衍射（XRD）分析表明Eu³⁺固溶于TbMnO₃中.测量了样品在低温(100 K ≤T≤ 300 K)和低频下(200 Hz≤f≤100 kHz)的复介电性质.在此温度区间内发现了两个介电弛豫峰.经分析认为低温峰（T≈170 K）起源于局域载流子漂移引起的偶极子极化效应,而高温峰（T≈290 K）则是由离子电导产生的边界和界面层的电容效应引起的.电阻率的测量显示在低温下（T≈230 K）存在明显的导电机制转变.     

Dielectric relaxation and ac conduction in multiferroic Bi0.8Gd0.1Pb0.1Fe0.9Ti0.1O3 ceramics: impedance spectroscopy analysis

ABSTRACT

The solid solutions of Bi_0.8Gd_0.1Pb_0.1Fe_0.9Ti_0.1O₃ have been prepared by the solid-state reaction method. The preliminary structural studies were carried out by X-ray diffraction technique showing the formation of polycrystalline sample with ABO₃ type of perovskite structure with hexagonal symmetry for the Bi_0.8Gd_0.1Pb_0.1Fe_0.9Ti_0.1O₃ ceramic system at room temperature. Dielectric properties and impedance study of this ceramic have been characterized in the temperature range room temperature to 375 °C and frequency range 100 Hz–1 MHz. The maximum ferroelectric transition temperature (T_c) of this system was in the range 200 °C–260 °C with the dielectric constant of peak to be ～30,170 at 1 kHz. The complex impedance plot exhibited one impedance semicircle observed at low temperature, whereas two semicircles above 80 °C and the centres of the semicircles lie below the real axis, which indicates that the material is non-Debye type. Single semicircle is explained by the grain effect of the bulk and double semicircle is due to the bulk and grain boundary effect. The bulk resistance and grain boundary resistance of the materials decrease with the increasing temperature, showing negative temperature and a typical semiconducting property, i.e. negative temperature coefficient of resistance behaviour.