铁电陶瓷宏观单轴力电行为的双面模型

铁电陶瓷以其优越的力电耦合性作为新型的智能材料使用. 提出基于弹塑性双面理论的宏观铁电本构模型. 根据铁电陶瓷内部电畴在外电场和机械场作用下的微观运动，在宏观上除引入材料的畴变面外，还首次引入饱和面，并考虑以畴变面与饱和面之间的广义距离来表征铁电陶瓷的非线性行为. 数值计算结果与实验数据的比较表明所提出的初步理论可适当地反映力电加载下铁电陶瓷的宏观非线性行为.     

铁电陶瓷PZT的实验本构研究

用低频高压电源和液压加力架实验研究了力电载荷下铁电陶瓷软性ＰＺＴ（Ｐ－５１）的单轴应力应变关系,在不同压应力下的电滞回线和蝶曲线,实验发现随着压应力的增加。ＰＺＴ的铁电特性发生很大的变化,尝试用电畴来解释ＰＺＴ在不同压力电性的变化规律和退极化效应,在本实验中,我们很好的解决了测试材料高压性能中常出现的绝缘问题和电弧放电问题,获得了比较系统的实验结果。     

应用云纹干涉法测量力电耦合作用下铁电陶瓷的破坏行为

本文采用云纹干涉系统对的电陶瓷在力电耦合载荷作用下裂纹尖端的力学行为进行全场实时非接触动态细观测量,采用三点弯实验获取裂纹尖端区域在力电耦合作用下与电场集中有关的电致伸缩位移场,应变场,通过分析实验取得的云纹图得到了裂尖区域的位移场,应变场,发现裂尖区域就变随着与裂尖距离的增加衰减的速率比没有电场作用下的理论计算结果要快。     

铁电陶瓷PZT53多轴力电耦合下的屈服行为

研究了不同拉-扭与压-扭比例载荷和电场耦合作用下铁电陶瓷PZT53的屈服行为。通过自己设计的力电加载装置,结合材料试验机和电压放大器对PZT53在多轴力电耦合载荷作用下应力-应变行为进行测量,结合陈和卢的理论,得出了极化和未极化的PZT53陶瓷在多轴力载荷下的初始屈服面和破坏面。结果表明初始屈服面类似于Drucker-Prager屈服面,本文提出了一个屈服准则,较好的符合实验结果。实验发现PZT53陶瓷破坏行为符合最大拉应力破坏准则。对于极化的PZT53陶瓷,还研究了偏置电场对应力-应变行为的影响,结果表明偏置电场大于0．6kV／mm时,PZT53陶瓷的屈服现象消失。本文工作为发展铁电陶瓷PZT53的多轴力电耦合唯象本构模型提供了实验基础。     

铁电复合材料的力电耦合行为

对铁电复合材料力电耦合行为的研究进行综述．介绍了铁电复合材料的一些基本特点和线性压电有效性能的研究进展．阐述铁电复合材料中由于铁电相的铁电畴变与铁弹畴变以及基体相的弹性、粘弹性和介电弛豫性质所引起的铁电复合材料的非线性力电耦合行为．介绍了基于细观力学方法对铁电复合材料的本构关系进行研究的一些结果．     

力电耦合载荷作用下铁电陶瓷破坏行为的云纹干涉方法研究

本文介绍了如何用云纹干涉法实时地观察铁电陶瓷在力载荷和电载荷共同作用下裂尖的破坏行为．测量了三点弯试验中由电场和应力集中导致的裂尖的变形场．对变形的云纹图分析表明：当极化方向与裂纹扩展方向一致，且都与电场方向垂直，裂尖附近的正应变随电场的增加而增加，应变集中现象比较突出，电场促进和加速了裂纹的扩展．     

铁电陶瓷电致疲劳失效的研究进展

铁电陶瓷是具备力电转换功能的典型高技术材料.本文概述铁电陶瓷电致疲劳失效的研究进展.首先介绍电致疲劳的定义和特点,然后讨论电致疲劳失效在不同尺度下的表现行为,包括宏观尺度下裂纹的疲劳扩展;细观尺度下裂纹的萌生;微观尺度下点缺陷在循环电场下的积聚.随即阐述了铁电陶瓷在循环电场下缺陷汇聚的理论分析,运用微结构演化方法计算了单个孔洞随畴界的移动距离,推导了循环电场下铁电陶瓷内点缺陷浓度的演化方程,给出了点缺陷浓度与其汇聚程度之间的定量关系,从而提出了贯通不同尺度的铁电陶瓷电致疲劳失效机理.      

铁电材料的疲劳失效行为

在航空航天、核能发电等重大装备技术领域, 作为高温传感/驱动/能量收集器件的敏感材料——铋层状结构铁电(BLSF)陶瓷在复杂载荷环境下的疲劳失效问题严重限制着器件寿命和可靠性的提高. 本文以BLSF陶瓷的应用需求为背景, 围绕铁电材料的疲劳裂纹扩展与电畴极化翻转及其相互作用机制等关键问题, 综述了铁电材料在热、力、电三种载荷及其耦合作用下疲劳失效行为的研究现状, 并根据当前铁电材料的一些新发展、新应用对其未来研究方向进行了展望, 旨在为高性能、长寿命铁电/压电器件设计提供参考.      

单晶铁电畴反转的简化模型

建立具有钙钛矿结构铁电材料的基本电畴结构类型及电畴反转系的表示方法;将电畴反转类似为晶体塑性理论的位错运动,采用内时理论的类似方法,提出一个较简便的电畴体积分数的演化方程,能综合考虑到反转驱动力、180°和90°反转的不同形式、电畴体积分数及反转的变形历史等对反转的影响.对不同外加力电载荷条件下单晶材料的响应进行了模拟计算,能较好反映铁电材料的电位移与电场强度、应变与电场强度、应力与应变、应力与电位移等的非线性力电耦合关系.     

软磁材料的力磁耦合本构的实验研究

磁性材料已经在新技术中起着重要的作用,研究这些磁性材料的力学规律对于磁性材料的应用和发展至关重要.软磁材料在工作状态时,一般受到机械应力场和电磁场双重耦合场的作用,其本构关系本质上是非线性的.这给理论模拟带来了很大困难.目前无论是从实验方面或者是理论模型方面,对软磁材料的力磁耦合本构关系的研究都很不成熟.本文用实验方法,研究了高纯度镍和锰锌复合铁氧体这两种传统软磁材料的力磁耦合本构关系.研制了力磁耦合加载设备,测量设备和监控设备.采用铁氧体粉末烧结方法,烧制了实验所需的圆柱状实验试件.实验结果表明,外加应力对镍和锰锌铁氧体材料的磁致应变具有重要影响,较大预加应力对镍的磁化强度产生较明显的影响.而外应力对锰锌铁氧体材料的磁化曲线影响很小.     

PHASE FIELD SIMULATION OF DOMAIN SWITCHING IN FERROELECTRIC SINGLE CRYSTAL WITH ELECTRICALLY PERMEABLE AND IMPERMEABLE CRACKS

Domain switching around electrically permeable and impermeable cracks in ferroelectric single crystals subjected to a mechanical load is investigated by using a phase field model.It is found that the e...     

An experimental investigation into non-linear wave loading on horizontal axis tidal turbines

Tidal turbines are subject to large hydrodynamic loads from combinations of currents and waves, which contribute significantly to fatigue, extreme loading and power flow requirements. Physical model testing enables these loads and power fluctuations to be assessed and understood in a controlled and repeatable environment. In this work, a 1:15 scale tidal turbine model is utilised to further the fundamental understanding of the influence of waves on tidal turbines. A wide range of regular waves are generated in both following-current and opposing-current conditions. Wave frequencies range from 0.31 Hz to 0.55 Hz & wave heights from 0.025 m to 0.37 m in a fixed 0.81 m/s current velocity. Waves are selected and programmed specifically to facilitate frequency domain analysis, and techniques are employed to isolate the effect of non-linear waves on turbine power and thrust.Results demonstrate that wave action induces large variations in turbine power and thrust compared to current only conditions. For the range of conditions tested, peak values of thrust and power exceed current-only values by between 7%–65% and 13%–160% respectively. These wave-induced fluctuations are shown to increase with wave amplitude and decrease with wave frequency. Following wave conditions exhibit greater variations than opposing for waves with the same wave height and frequency due to the lower associated wavenumbers.A model is developed and presented to aid the understanding of the high-order harmonic response of the turbine to waves, which is further demonstrated using steady state coefficients under assumptions of pseudo-stationarity. This approach is proven to be effective at estimating wave-induced power and thrust fluctuations for the combinations of waves, currents and turbine state tested. The outcome of which shows promise as a rapid design tool that can evaluate the effect of site-specific wave–current conditions on turbine performance.     

Analysis of the electromechanical behavior of ferroelectric ceramics based on a nonlinear finite element model

A nonlinear finite element (FE) model based on domain switching was proposed to study the electromechanical behavior of ferroelectric ceramics. The incremental FE formulation was improved to avoid any calculation instability. The problems of mesh sensitivity and convergence, and the efficiency of the proposed nonlinear FE technique have been assessed to illustrate the versatility and potential accuracy of the said technique. The nonlinear electromechanical behavior, such as the hysteresis loops and butterfly curves, of ferroelectric ceramics subjected to both a uniform electric field and a point electric potential has been studied numerically. The results obtained are in good agreement with those of the corresponding theoretical and experimental analyses. Furthermore, the electromechanical coupling fields near (a) the boundary of a circular hole, (b) the boundary of an elliptic hole and (c) the tip of a crack, have been analyzed using the proposed nonlinear finite element method (FEM). The proposed nonlinear electromechanically coupled FEM is useful for the analysis of domain switching, deformation and fracture of ferroelectric ceramics.The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10025209, 10132010 and 90208002), the Research Grants of the Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (HKU7086/02E) and the Key Grant Project of the Chinese Ministry of Education (0306)     

A model for the nonisothermal behavior of viscoelastic media

Summary A new constitutive model is derived for the viscoelastic behavior of polymers under non-isothermal loading. The model extends the concept of adaptive links (entanglements) between polymeric molecules to thermoviscoelastic media. By using experimental data for Nylon-6 and polyisobutylene in the vicinity of the glass-transition temperature, we find parameters of the model and study their dependence on temperature. The model is employed for the numerical analysis of the material response to time-periodic loads under isothermal conditions and to time-varying loads under heating. The results of numerical simulation demonstrate fair agreement with experimental data. Accepted for publication 23 May 1996     

An experimental investigation into modeling solids friction for fluidized dense-phase pneumatic transport of powders

Results are presented of an ongoing investigation into modeling friction in fluidized dense-phase pneumatic transport of bulk solids. Many popular modeling methods of the solids friction use the dimensionless solids loading ratio and Froude number. When evaluated under proper scale-up conditions of pipe diameter and length, many of these models have resulted in significant inaccuracy. A technique for modeling solids friction has been developed using a new combination of dimensionless numbers, volumetric loading ratio and the ratio of particle free settling velocity to superficial conveying air velocity, to replace the solids loading ratio and Froude number. The models developed using the new formalism were evaluated for accuracy and stability under significant scale-up conditions for four different products conveyed through four different test rigs (subject to diameter and length scale-up conditions). The new model considerably improves predictions compared with those obtained using the existing model, especially in the dense-phase region. Whereas the latter yields absolute average relative errors varying between 10% and 86%, the former yielded results with errors from 4% to 20% for a wide range of scale-up conditions. This represents a more reliable and narrower range of prediction that is suitable for industrial scale-up requirements.     

爆破冲击对早龄期混凝土强度影响的实验研究

以某大型全碎石填方机场工程为背景,针对早龄期混凝土受爆破振动损伤开展了实验研究。通过室内实验模拟场地爆破振动作用于早龄期混凝土试块,测量了不同龄期混凝土受振损伤后的强度。并将实验结果与有限元数值计算和现场爆破场地测试数据相结合,分析了早龄期混凝土损伤后的强度增长规律,建立了场地爆破与混凝土结构浇筑平行施工的安全技术指标。     

An experimental investigation into the dimension-sensitive viscosity of polymer containing lubricant oils in microchannels

In many lubrication processes, lubricating oils containing polymer additives are subject to high shear rate through very small clearance channels. While the influence of shear rate on the performance of these lubricants has been well examined, very little is known about the effects of channel size. In this study a specially designed microchannel viscometer has been used to experimentally characterize the influence of channel height on the effective viscosity of oil lubricants with two different polymer additives (a radial hydrogenated styrene–isoprene copolymer and an A–B–A block ethylene–propylene copolymer) commenly used as viscosity index (VI) modifiers. The mass concentration of the polymer solutions ranged from 0.5% to 1.5% in this study. The viscosity was measured over a range of shear rates in steel slit microchannels with heights of 4.5, 7 and 11.5 μm, respectively. For all solutions a significant viscosity dependence on channel size was observed. In the higher shear rate range the smaller channels exhibited a lower viscosity while in the lower shear rate range all solutions exhibited a significant increase in viscosity. Generally, this observed increase in viscosity is more dramatic in the smaller channels. Possible causes of these behaviors were discussed in this paper.     

An investigation into the effect of electric field on the performance of Dielectric Barrier Discharge plasma actuators

The influence of the inter-electrode electric field of a single Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) actuator on the performance of the device was investigated. The electric field of the actuator was manipulated through the variation of the angle between the electrodes of the actuators. Response forces generated by the plasma actuators were used as performance indicators for these devices. These forces were measured directly utilizing a highly sensitive balance scale. It was verified that depending on the orientation of the variation of the angle between the electrodes, the performance of the actuator may be decreased or increased when compared to a DBD on a flat dielectric plate more commonly investigated in literature. The manner in which the ionic wind flows over the actuators was also explored in the effort to elucidate the influence of the variation of the angle between the electrodes on the response force generated by the device. Results demonstrated that the response forces generated by the actuators may be improved by up to 50% compared to the actuator configuration on a flat dielectric plate commonly investigated. These results indicate the potential available to advance plasma technology by physically manipulating these devices to increase the performances of the actuators.