器件表面形貌及粗糙度检测

本文基于光学计量技术及扫描显微技术,从结构和器件的表面轮廓和粗糙度两个参数入手,介绍表面高度起伏从厘米到原子级水平的检测和分析中的一些重要方法,如适用于表面起伏从厘米到微米量级的结构光投影方法、表面起伏从毫米量级到亚微米量级的相干光形貌测试技术,以及从亚微米到亚纳米水平的光散射技术和扫描显微表面形貌与表面粗糙度测试技术等,并讨论各种尺度下表面的表征方式和检测参数。最后结合散斑统计分析技术,应用局域散斑场强度统计平均和散斑场自相关函数计算,给出了某战斗机机体蒙皮材料在环境应力腐蚀条件下表面粗糙度(范围从0.025微米到0.7微米)随腐蚀介质温度、腐蚀时间等参数的检测和分析结果。     

Identification of Material Damage Model Parameters: an Inverse Approach Using Digital Image Processing

A reliable prediction of ductile failure in metals is still a wide-open matter of research. Several models are available in the literature, ranging from empirical criteria, porosity-based models and continuum damage mechanics (CDM). One major issue is the accurate identification of parameters which describe material behavior. For some damage models, parameter identification is more or less straightforward, being possible to perform experiments for their evaluation. For the others, direct calibration from laboratory tests is not possible, so that the approach of inverse methods is required for a proper identification. In material model calibration, the inverse approach consists in a non-linear iterative fitting of a parameter-dependent load–displacement curve (coming from a FEM simulation) on the experimental specimen response. The test is usually a tensile test on a round-notched cylindrical bar. The present paper shows a novel inverse procedure aimed to estimate the material parameters of the Gurson–Tvergaard–Needleman (GTN) porosity-based plastic damage model by means of experimental data collected using image analysis. The use of digital image processing allows to substitute the load–displacement curve with other global quantities resulting from the measuring of specimen profile during loading. The advantage of this analysis is that more data are available for calibration thus allowing a greater level of confidence and accuracy in model parameter evaluation.     

用人工神经网络计算机技术进行金刚石工具的摩擦学设计

在分析讨论了金刚石工具的摩擦学性能及其磨损机理之后，采用人工神经网络计算机技术编制了金刚石工具磨擦学设计的计算机程序，并且依据这种程序设计制造了一组铣磨轮，进而将其装机作了大理石材的磨削加工现场应用考察，结果表明，通过本程序设计可以使铣磨轮的平均消耗数减少１１％，磨削数率提高２８％，这是在采用人工神经网络计算机程序进行设计时，将实际工作数据作为神经元程序的学习和检查样本，它充分引入了现场使用状况对     

The Effect of Fuel-Injection Timing on In-cylinder Flow and Combustion Performance in a Spark-Ignition Direct-Injection (SIDI) Engine Using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)

This study applies particle image velocimetry (PIV) to an optical spark-ignition direct-injection engine in order to investigate the effects of fuel-injection on in-cylinder flow. Five injection timing combinations, each employing a stoichiometric 1:1 split ratio double-injection strategy, were analysed at an engine speed of 1200 RPM and an intake pressure of 100 kPa. Timings ranged from two injections in the intake stroke to two injections in the compression stroke, resulting in a variety of in-cylinder environments from well-mixed to highly turbulent. PIV images were acquired at a sampling frequency of 5 kHz on a selected swirl plane. The flow fields were decomposed into mean and fluctuating components via two spatial filtering approaches — one using a fixed 8 mm cut-off length, and the other using a mean flow speed scaled cut-off length which was tuned in order to match the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) profile of a 300 Hz temporal filter. From engine performance tests, the in-cylinder pressure traces, indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP), and combustion phasing data showed very high sensitivity to injection timing variations. To explain the observed trend, correspondence between the measured flow and these performance parameters was evaluated. An expected global trend of increasing turbulence with retarded injection timing was clearly observed; however, relationships between TKE and burn rate were not as obvious as anticipated, suggesting that turbulence is not the predominant factor associated with injection timing variations which impacts engine performance. Stronger links were observed between bulk flow velocity and burn rate, particularly during the early stages of flame development. Injection timing was also found to have a significant impact on combustion stability, where it was observed that low-frequency flow fluctuation intensity revealed strong similarities with the coefficient of variance (CoV) of IMEP, suggesting that these fluctuations are a suitable measure of cycle-to-cycle variation — likely due to the influence of bulk flow on flame kernel development.     

Distortion of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) Displacements and Strains from Heat Waves

“Heat waves” is a colloquial term used to describe convective currents in air formed when different objects in an area are at different temperatures. In the context of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) and other optical-based image processing techniques, imaging an object of interest through heat waves can significantly distort the apparent location and shape of the object. There are many potential heat sources in DIC experiments, including but not limited to lights, cameras, hot ovens, and sunlight, yet error caused by heat waves is often overlooked. This paper first briefly presents three practical situations in which heat waves contributed significant error to DIC measurements to motivate the investigation of heat waves in more detail. Then the theoretical background of how light is refracted through heat waves is presented, and the effects of heat waves on displacements and strains computed from DIC are characterized in detail. Finally, different filtering methods are investigated to reduce the displacement and strain errors caused by imaging through heat waves. The overarching conclusions from this work are that errors caused by heat waves are significantly higher than typical noise floors for DIC measurements, and that the errors are difficult to filter because the temporal and spatial frequencies of the errors are in the same range as those of typical signals of interest. Therefore, eliminating or mitigating the effects of heat sources in a DIC experiment is the best solution to minimizing errors caused by heat waves.     

RENEWAL OF BASIC LAWS AND PRINCIPLES FOR POLAR CONTINUUM THEORIES (Ⅳ)——SURFACE COUSERVATION LAWS

The purpose is to reestablish rather complete surface conservation laws for micropolar thermomechanical continua from the translation and the rotation invariances of the general balance law. The generalized energy-momentum and energy-moment of momentum tensors are presented. The concrete forms of surface conservation laws for micropolar thermomechanical continua are derived. The existing related results are naturally derived as special cases from the results proposed in this paper. The incomplete degrees of the existing surface conservation laws are clearly seen from the process of the deduction. The surface conservation laws for nonlocal micropolar thermomechanical continua may be easily obtained via localization. Contributed by DAI Tian-min, Original Member of Editorial Committee, AMM Foundation items: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10072024); the Research Foundation of Liaoning Education Committee (990111001) Biography: DAI Tian-min (1931 ~)     

Excitation of Spatially Developed Lamb Waves by a System of Body and Surface Loads (Part 2)

International Applied Mechanics - The problem of excitation of spatially developed Lamb waves by a system of body and surface loads is formulated and completely solved by analytical methods. Using...     

Multi-scale Measurement of (Amorphous) Polymer Deformation: Simultaneous X-ray Scattering,Digital Image Correlation and In-situ Loading

This paper presents a method to investigate the behaviour of polymers on different scales during deformation using simultaneously collected synchrotron X-ray scattering, digital image correlation (DIC) and tensile loading. The method is demonstrated through experiments made on specimens of amorphous polycarbonate. Deformation is measured in-situ, simultaneously across different scales from the macroscopic deformation, measured using sensors on the tensile machine, to the full-field mesoscopic deformation, measured using DIC, down to the deformation of the nano-scale structure, studied using small and wide angle X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS). The DIC reveals highly inhomogeneous deformations that render conventional techniques for measuring deformation, such as extensiometers, virtually useless. The X-ray scattering is measured in several spatial points during continuous loading giving the evolution of the microstructure with respect to both spatial location and load level. The spatial mapping of the scattering reveals characters that would not be observed when only measuring at the centre point or measuring on a large area of the specimen, e.g. wide beam SAXS/WAXS or small angle neutron scattering (SANS). With these data, the macroscopic and the mesoscopic deformation can be correlated to the behaviour of the microstructure providing relevant information when developing micro-mechanical based constitutive models. The experimental results shown here indicate a direct correlation between the major principal strain direction and the maximum anisotropy direction of the SAXS patterns. The current approach can be extended to any kind of polymeric materials or polymer-based nano-composites.     

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling of transfer chutes: Assessment of viscosity,drag and turbulence models

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been successfully applied to evaluate potential dust emissions from bulk material transfer chutes. The implementation of appropriate models and modelling parameters is shown to be critical to the overall accuracy of the simulation results. This paper presents the influence of different models on the CFD simulation of transfer chutes and follows from an earlier study that details the influence of model parameters. The aim of this paper is to offer guidance to select models, and provide a better understanding of their influence in order to evaluate the most appropriate viscosity model, drag model and turbulence model for this application. A two-phase three-dimensional Euler–Euler model in commercial CFD software ANSYS FLUENT has been selected to model the granular and air flow in the transfer chute. The simulated air velocity profiles are discussed by comparing with each other and against experimental data obtained from Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) results. The simulated particle velocity distributions were compared with results obtained using a well-established continuum method which was developed by Roberts. Furthermore, the air mass flow rates were analysed to evaluate the influence of different models. The results show that the granular viscosity model had a strong influence on the predictions of both air and particle flow. It was observed that both the drag model and turbulence model had limited influence on the outlet air velocities. The results also indicate that the Di-Felice drag model and SST k–ω turbulence model provide solutions closer to the experimental values than the other models investigated.     

Calibrating and Scaling Semi-empirical Foam Flow Models for the Assessment of Foam-Based EOR Processes (in Heterogeneous Reservoirs)

Transport in Porous Media - Models for simulating foam-based displacements fall into two categories: population-balance (PB) models that derive explicitly foam texture or bubble size from...     

Assessment of heavy metal pollution characteristics and human health risk of exposure to ambient PM_(2.5) in Tianjin,China

To examine the features of heavy metal pollution of PM_(2.5)(particulate matter less than 2.5 μm) in Tianjin,China,as well as the exposure risk of PM_(2.5) to human health,we analyzed ambient PM_(2.5) samples collected from a campus of Nankai University in June,August,and October 2012.The concentrations of PM_(2.5) and heavy metals(Ni,Cu,Pb,Zn,Cr,Cd,Hg,As and Mn) in PM2.5 were analyzed by gravimetric analysis and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry,respectively.The results show that the heavy metals contained in PM_(2.5) were,in descending order,Cu,Zn,Pb,Mn,Cr,Ni,Cd,As,and Hg.The proportion of Cd exceeded the secondary level of National Ambient Air Quality Standard of China(GB 3095-2012) by 1.3times,while others were within the limit.Enrichment factor analysis indicated that Cu,Zn,Cd,Pb,and Hg are mainly from anthropogenic sources.Principal component analysis indicated that the main sources of the heavy metals are vehicle exhaust,chemical waste,and coal-burning activities.The nine heavy metals which may cause health issues by exposure through the human respiratory system and should be further examined are Cr,Cd,As,Ni,Cu,Pb,Mn,Zn,and Hg,in the order of decreasing risk levels.With reference to the U.S.EPA standard the risk levels of all nine metals were below the acceptable level(10~(-6)/year).     

Flow evolution of a turbulent submerged two-dimensional rectangular free jet of air. Average Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) visualizations and measurements

The paper presents average flow visualizations and measurements, obtained with the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique, of a submerged rectangular free jet of air in the range of Reynolds numbers from Re = 35,300 to Re = 2200, where the Reynolds number is defined according to the hydraulic diameter of a rectangular slot of height H. According to the literature, just after the exit of the jet there is a zone of flow, called zone of flow establishment, containing the region of mixing fluid, at the border with the stagnant fluid, and the potential core, where velocity on the centerline maintains a value almost equal to the exit one. After this zone is present the zone of established flow or fully developed region. The goal of the paper is to show, with average PIV visualizations and measurements, that, before the zone of flow establishment is present a region of flow, never mentioned by the literature and called undisturbed region of flow, with a length, L_U, which decreases with the increase of the Reynolds number. The main characteristics of the undisturbed region is the fact that the velocity profile maintains almost equal to the exit one, and can also be identified by a constant height of the average PIV visualizations, with length, L_CH, or by a constant turbulence on the centerline, with length L_CT. The average PIV velocity and turbulence measurements are compared to those performed with the Hot Film Anemometry (HFA) technique. The average PIV visualizations show that the region of constant height has a length L_CH which increases from L_CH = H at Re = 35,300 to L_CH = 4–5H at Re = 2200. The PIV measurements on the centerline of the jet show that turbulence remains constant at the level of the exit for a length, L_CT, which increases from L_CT = H at Re = 35,300 to L_CT = 4–5H at Re = 2200. The PIV measurements show that velocity remains constant at the exit level for a length, L_U, which increases from L_U = H at Re = 35,300 to L_U = 6H at Re = 2200 and is called undisturbed region of flow. In turbulent flow the length L_U is almost equal to the lengths of the regions of constant height, L_CH, and constant turbulence, L_CT. In laminar flow, Re = 2200, the length of the undisturbed region of flow, L_U, is greater than the lengths of the regions of constant height and turbulence, L_CT = L_CH = 4–5H. The average PIV and HFA velocity measurements confirm that the length of potential core, L_P, increases from L_P = 4–5H at Re = 35,300 to L_P = 7–8H at Re = 2200, and are compared to the previous experimental and theoretical results of the literature in the zone of mixing fluid and in the fully developed region with a good agreement.     

Assessment of morphology in transient and steady state regimes resulting from phase separation in polystyrene/poly(vinyl methyl ether) blend

Morphology development after phase separation in polystyrene (PS)/poly(vinyl methyl ether) (PVME) blend was assessed both in transient and in steady state regimes. Phase segregation was evaluated by various techniques including optical microscopy, light transmission, dynamic scanning calorimetry and rheological analyses. The steady state particle size resulted from phase separation was determined experimentally and then compared to the predictions of both the emulsion models that assume zero-thickness interfacial boundaries and to the asymptotic value of the Cahn–Hilliard theory that assumes rather a diffuse interphase.