Conductivity effect in electrorheological fluids

Based on conduction model and cubic particle model, the relationship between current density and shear yield stress of electrorheological (ER) fluids was calculated and compared with some reported experimental results. The conductivity of the insulating oils is found to have been changed by the mixed particles. Several ways to decrease insulating liquid conductivity and increase the conductivity ratio of ER fluids have been proposed to prepare ER fluids with high shear yield stresses but low current densities.     

Classical and quantum hard sphere fluids: Theory and experiment

A comprehensive picture is presented of what can be reconstructed of the equations of state, at all densities, of both classical and quantum hard sphere fluids (the latter in their ground states) just from the first few coefficients which are known of the low-density expansions. Extrapolation techniques, mostly Padé and generalizations thereof, are employed and comparisons with computer simulation studies are made wherever these are available.     

Characteristics and mechanisms of electrorheological fluids

Electrorheological (ER) fluids consist of suspensions of fine polarizable particles in a dielectric medium, which upon application of an electric field take on the characteristics of a solid in times of the order of milliseconds and reversibly return to liquid behavior upon removal of the field. The rheology, electrical characteristics, and structure of typical ER fluids are here reviewed. The proposed mechanisms and their accord with experimental data are discussed. Some directions for future research are mentioned.     

极性分子型电流变液

电流变液在电场作用下软硬连续可调的奇特性质具有广泛和重要的应用价值。传统电流变液是基于颗粒极化产生的相互作用,根据介电理论预测,其剪切屈服强度的上限约为10 kPa。电流变液被发明50年来,阻碍其应用的主要原因是剪切强度低。近年来发明的“极性分子型电流变液”是一类新型电流变液,其屈服强度比传统电流变液大一个数量级以上,且与电场强度呈线性关系,这一点和传统电流变液中的平方关系也明显不同。文章作者提出了极性分子在颗粒间强局域电场中的取向并与极化电荷作用的模型,成功地解释了观察到的实验现象。根据这一原理,有可能制备出屈服强度高达MPa的电流变液。     

Conductivity effect in electrorheological fluids

Based on conduction model and cubic particle model, the relationship between current density and shear yield stress of electrorheological (ER) fluids was calculated and compared with some reported experimental results. The conductivity of the insulating oils is found to have been changed by the mixed particles. Several ways to decrease insulating liquid conductivity and increase the conductivity ratio of ER fluids have been proposed to prepare ER fluids with high shear yield stresses but low current densities.     

Pattern formation in flowing electrorheological fluids

A two-fluid continuum model is developed to describe mass transport in electro- and magnetorheological suspensions. The particle flux is related to the field-induced stresses. Solutions of the resulting mass balance show column formation in the absence of flow, and stripe formation when a suspension is subjected simultaneously to an applied electric field and shear flow.     

Basic considerations in flowing electrorheological fluids

The physical and chemical properties of electrorheological (ER) fluids are reviewed, and an outline theory of their mode of action is proposed. Rheologically, the Bingham plastic model gives an acceptable representation of ER fluids flowing in a field and it has recently been shown that the plastic viscosity may be field-dependent in some circumstances, as well as the yield stress. The variation of the former with field is strongly influenced by the specific chemical nature of the ER fluid, while the field dependence of the latter has a similar form in all the ER fluids investigated. However, interpretation of observations is complicated by concentration of solid in the working gap and interplay between local electrical conductivity and shear rate.     

Many-body dipole-induced dipole model for electrorheological fluids

Theoretical investigations on electrorheological (ER) fluids usually rely on computer simulations. An initial approach for these studies would be the point-dipole (PD) approximation, which is known to err considerably when the particles approach and finally touch each other due to many-body and multipolar interactions. Thus various works have attempted to go beyond the PD model. Being beyond the PD model, previous attempts have been restricted to either local-field effects only or multipolar effects only, but not both. For instance, we recently proposed a dipole-induced-dipole (DID) model which is shown to be both more accurate than the PD model and easy to use. This work is necessary because the many-body (local-field) effect is included to put forth the many-body DID model. The results show that the multipolar interactions can indeed be dominant over the dipole interaction, while the local-field effect may yield a correction.     

The electric field and frequency responses of giant electrorheological fluids

The giant electrorheological(ER) fluid is based on the principle of a polar molecule dominated electrorheological(PM-ER) effect. The response of the shear stress for PM-ER fluid in alternate electric fields with triangle/square wave forms for different frequencies has been studied. The results show that the shear stress cannot well follow the rapid change of electric field and the average shear stresses of PM-ER fluids decrease with the increasing frequency of the applied field due to the response decay of the shear stress on applied field. The behavior is quite different from that of traditional ER fluids. However, the average shear stress of PM-ER fluid in a square wave electric field of ±E at low frequency can keep at high value. The obtained knowledge must be helpful for the design and operation of PM-ER fluids in the applications.     

基于电流变液的可调谐负磁导率材料

通过把负磁导率材料SRR阵列置于高性能电流变液中,研究了电极加载方式、电流变液浓度、电流变液类型以及电场强度等因素对浸入电流变液中的SRR阵列谐振频率的影响. 实验表明,电极加载方式对SRR阵列的磁响应有重要的影响;在容器盒中充满电流变液之后SRR阵列的谐振频率往低频发生了移动,并且可以通过改变外加电场强度来调节,最大的调节范围为130MHz. 数值计算结果表明SRR阵列的有效磁导率在谐振频率附近为负值,并且有效磁导率为负的频率范围也可以通过改变外加电场强度来调节. 关键词： 负磁导率材料 谐振频率 电流变液     

电流变液微波反射可调控性

研究了纳米二氧化钛包覆高岭土和钇掺杂钛酸钡两种电流变液的微波反射行为.实验发现，在垂直于微波传播方向电场作用下，两种电流变液微波反射系数均随电场强度的增大而增大；钇掺杂钛酸钡电流变液微波反射系数变化幅度比二氧化钛包覆高岭土电流变液宽，并且电场调节的能力随浓度的增加有减弱的趋势.对钇掺杂钛酸钡电流变液存在一个临界浓度，低于这个浓度，电场的调控能力随电场强度的增加而增大，高于这个浓度，电场的调控能力随电场的增加先增大后减小.另外，二氧化钛包覆高岭土电流变液反射回波相位随电场强度的增大出现最大值后逐渐减小趋于平 关键词： 电流变液 微波反射 相位     

Preparation of carbon nanotubes-incorporated polymeric microspheres for electrorheological fluids

Electrically conducting polymeric microspheres having an average diameter of 92 μm were prepared from composites of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and suspension-polymerized poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) particles. Cetyl trimethylammonium bromide and sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate were selected as the surfactants to stably disperse the MWCNTs in water. Strong adhesion of MWCNTs on the surfaces of the PVC microspheres was observed from the images obtained by field emission scanning electron microscopy. The amount of MWCNTs adsorbed on the microspheres was approximately 2 wt.%, determined by thermogravimetric analysis. The electrical conductivity of these composite-microspheres was remarkably increased upto 1.5 × 10⁻⁴ S/cm compared with that of the pure PVC microspheres (less than 10⁻¹⁴ S/cm), because of the electrically conducting MWCNTs on their surfaces. These microspheres also showed an electrorheological (ER) effect under an electric field (1.8 kV/mm) owing to the interfacial polarization of the MWCNTs-adsorbed microspheres, when they were dispersed in silicone oil (20 wt.%). The MWCNT-adsorbed PVC microspheres formed linear structures by electric force; i.e. the individual microspheres were connected to neighboring microspheres.     

Dielectric constant of non-polar fluids

The theory of the static dielectric constant of non-polar fluids is re-examined using graph-theoretical techniques. A sample of arbitrary shape in an applied static electric field E ₀ is considered. The non-local tensor which transforms from E ₀ to the electrostatic polarization P is expressed as a sum of graphs. The relation appears simpler in terms of the inverse tensor, which is also obtained as a sum of graphs. Agreement with classical electrostatics is then manifest, and the shape-independence of the dielectric constant follows. An approximation suitable for numerical work is formulated, and a simplified version is solved analytically. The results are similar to those for fluids of rigid polar molecules in the Mean Spherical Model approximation. Reasons for both the similarities and the differences are given.     

An investigation into the acoustic insulation of triple-layered panels containing Newtonian fluids: Theory and experiment

Sound insulation of triple-layered panels consisting of two impervious layers with the middle layer being a Newtonian fluid is studied here both theoretically and experimentally. The progressive impedance model is used to predict the transmission loss (TL) provided by the panel in a normal incidence field. Corrections are then made to obtain the TL values of such panels in random incidence field. A modified B&K impedance tube was constructed for experimental evaluation. Results are presented for a Pyrex glass cylindrical tube containing motor oil, a ferromagnetic nanoparticles fluid (in the absence of a magnetic field) and air. Good agreement is obtained between the measured and analytical results for a wide range of frequencies. Also, a significant difference in TL values, particularly at low frequencies (f ? 4 kHz), is observed once the air is replaced by the fluid layer.     

电流变液调控的连通树枝状结构左手材料

设计了结构单元连通的单一树枝状结构材料模型,通过把连通的树枝状结构材料置于高性能电流变液中,研究了电极间距、内嵌介质的介电常数以及电场强度等对浸入电流变液中树枝状结构左手材料透射峰的影响.实验结果表明,电极间距对样品的左手峰有重要的影响;在容器盒中充满电流变液之后样品的左手峰向低频方向移动;通过改变外加电场强度可以调节左手透射峰,最大调节范围可达140 MHz. 关键词： 连通树枝结构 电流变液 介电常数 左手峰     

Non-equilibrium plasma: Theory and experiment

Transport properties of highly excited semiconductors are investigated. The model under consideration is an interacting electron-hole-acoustic phonon system far from equilibrium, described by parametrized single-particle distribution functions. Attention is focused on ambipolar transport of the electronic subsystem including diffusion, thermodiffusion, and drift. Modifications due to many-body effects are discussed. The theoretical scheme is used to interpret experimental data from various optical measurements.