体积分数对基于沸石和硅油的悬浮液的电流变性能的影响

用 HAAKE RV2 0型流变仪 ,在不同外加电场强度和不同颗粒体积分数下测试了基于沸石和硅油的电流变液的剪切应力变化 .结果表明 :随着外加电场强度升高 ,电流变液的零电场粘度急剧增加 ,电流变液的剪切屈服应力增加 ;随着电流变液中沸石颗粒体积分数升高 ,电流变液的剪切屈服强度急剧上升 .这种变化可以用颗粒间作用力与颗粒间距的关系、单位面积的颗粒链数目变化以及多体作用对电流变液性能的影响来解释     

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.     

电流变阻尼器的动态特性实验研究

设计制造了一种多层滑动极板式电流变阻尼器，使用自制的电流变液，采用正弦激励，进行了这种电流变阻尼器的阻尼特性试验。研究了电流变阻尼器的载荷－位移迟滞特性和载荷－速率迟滞特性，同时研究分析了这种电流变阻尼器的周期能耗特性及等效粘性阻尼特性。结果表明，阻尼器的周期能耗量随外加电场强度的增加而增加，外加电场强度越大，阻尼器的等效阻尼系数越大。阻尼器的阻尼特性体现为库仑阻尼和粘性阻尼的组合，其中随外加电场强度可控的主要是库仑阻尼力，而且库仑阻尼力不仅与外加强度有关，也与阻尼器的运动速度有关。该阻尼器系统是一个强非线性系统，极板间电流变液在低剪切应变率时表现为Bingham塑性流体，在高剪切应变率时流变性态比较复杂，导致载荷－速率迟滞环出现多区域闭合现象。     

电流变液体黏性变化趋势的试验研究

以微观试验和流变性能试验为手段，分别研究零电场下和在电场作用下的电流变液体黏性变化规律．研究结果表明：零电场下电流变液体的黏性与Krieger-Dougherty公式具有很好的拟合效果，其中逾渗临界值强依赖于悬浮液体中固体颗粒的性质并随工作温度变化．在电场作用下，电流变悬浮液体的黏度随剪切速率的变化规律分为3个阶段：即呈线性的启动段、非线性的幂定律模型流动段和宾汉模型流动段．研究结果为电流变效应工程应用提供依据．     

振荡剪切力作用下的电流变流体黏弹性研究

利用HAAKE RS600流变仪对电流变体进行了强制振荡实验研究,得到了流体在不同 剪切应力幅和振荡频率下,电流变体储能模量、损耗模量、损耗因子随剪切应力和 剪切频率的变化规律.     

磁流变液体的流变力学特性试验和建模

从唯象角度讨论磁流变液体的流变力学特性。基于对磁流变液体的试验 ,讨论了磁感强度、温度和剪切应变速率等对磁流变液剪切应力的影响 ;建立了描述磁流变液剪切应力的 Bingham模型、广义 Bingham模型和非线性模型。     

三种电流变阻尼器阻尼特性的对比分析

首先简要地介绍了电流变体材料以及电流变阻尼器的基本概念,进而阐明了剪切模式电流变阻尼器、流动模式电流变阻尼器和复合模式电流变阻尼器的工作原理。最后,应用非牛顿流体力学理论给出了它们的阻尼力模型,并对其各自的阻尼特性进行了一些理论分析和探讨。     

基于应力波动的修正非局部流变模型

基于Pouliquen 提出的非局部流变模型,考虑颗粒流中某个位置重新排列引起的自激发过程,详细分析颗粒介质中应力波动幅值的概率密度分布形式以及剪切速率与体积分数的耦合作用,提出一种修正的非局部流变模型. 采用此修正非局部流变模型对斜面剪切颗粒流的流动特性进行了预测,颗粒流动的临界厚度、平均流动速度及剪切速率廓线的预测结果与实验结果定量吻合. 此修正模型的提出为复杂的密集颗粒流的描述和表征提供了一种新的研究思路.      

石油基电流变液中链结构的显微观察

利用显微观察技术连续记录了直流与交流电场下石油基电流变液中的显微结构变化,比较了两种电场下成链、链生长、断链的差异,这种差异包括颗粒的运动、链的形状以及断链时有无崩裂现象,并且分析了造成这种差异的原因,认为交流场下出现的链崩裂现象是由约翰逊-拉贝克效应造成的,通过石油基电流变液在直流、20Hz、50Hz三种电场条件下显微链结构的对比,得出结论横跨两极的链总的横截面积是影响剪应力大小的一个重要因素。     

电流变体粘弹性能的实验研究

电流变体是智能材料与结构中一种重要的致动器材料。本文对电流变体在电场作用下的粘弹性特性进行了实验研究。使用旋转式流变仪对表征流体粘性的蠕变特性进行了测试。同时,对电流变体进行了强制振荡试验,测试了流体在不同应力幅值、应力频率下的剪切模量主变化,得到了电流变体的复剪切模量以及剪切存储模量、损耗模量承承中电场变化的规律。     

Electrorheologial properties of hematite/silicone oil suspensions under DC fields

Electrorheological (ER) fluids composed of α-Fe₂O₃ (hematite) particles suspended in silicone oil are studied in this work. The rheological response has been characterized as a function of field strength, shear rate and volume fraction. Rheological tests under DC electric fields elucidated the influence of the electric field strength, E, and volume fraction, ϕ, on the field-dependent yield stress, τ_y. It was found that this quantity scales with E and ϕ with a linear and parabolic dependence, respectively. The viscosities of electrified suspensions were found to increase by several orders of magnitude as compared to the unelectrified suspension at low shear rates, although at high-shear rates hydrodynamic effects become dominant and no effects of the electric field on the viscosity are observed. The work is completed with the analysis of microscopic observations of the structure acquired by the ER fluid upon application of a constant electric field. Electrohydrodynamic convection is found to be the origin of the ER response rather than the commonly admitted particle fibrillation. This fact can provide an explanation to the relationship between yield stress and electric field strength as well as the pattern of periodic structures observed in the measurement geometries.     

The effect of particle concentration inhomogeneities on the steady flow of electro- and magneto-rheological materials

The yield stresses of electro-rheological (ER) and magneto-rheological (MR) suspensions increase by orders of magnitude when electric or magnetic fields are applied across them. In the absence of the field, the materials are essentially Newtonian fluids. When ER or MR materials flow through thin laminar ducts, the effect of the finite yield stress concentrates the material deformation gradients in the immediate vicinity of the duct walls. High shear rates in this region introduce drag and lift forces on the suspended particles, the net effect of which moves the particles away from the walls. Electro- or magneto-static image forces at the walls oppose this lift. The ensuing local changes in the particulate volume fraction gives rise to a local inhomogeneity in material properties adjacent to the walls.Four models for the material property inhomogeneities are presented in this paper. Three of these models admit analytical expressions for the relationship between pressure gradient and volumetric flow rate, but presume a piecewise constant particle concentration. The fourth model presumes a smooth relationship between the volume fraction and the shear rate, but requires a numerical solution. Results are presented in terms of the ratio of pressure gradients that can be produced by applying and removing the field.Experimental data collected for a variety of quasi-steady ER flows shows that the analytical solution corresponding to a flow of uniform particle concentration provides an upper bound to the pressure gradients. Each of the four models for inhomogeneous flow provides a lower bound over a sub-domain of the flow conditions. By combining these models heuristically, a single expression for the lower bound on the pressure gradients of ER and MR flows is presented.     

Nonlinear viscoelastic properties of MR fluids under large-amplitude-oscillatory-shear

Nonlinear viscoelastic properties of the MR fluid, MRF-132LD, under large-amplitude oscillatory shear were investigated. This was accomplished by carrying out the experiments under the amplitude sweep mode and the frequency sweep mode, using a rheometer with parallel-plate geometry. Investigations under the influence of various magnetic field strength and temperatures were also conducted. MR fluids behave as nonlinear viscoelastic or viscoplastic materials when they are subjected to large-amplitude shear, where the storage modulus decreases rapidly with increasing strain amplitude. Hence, MR fluid behaviour ranges from predominantly elastic at small strain amplitudes to viscous at high strain amplitudes. Large-amplitude oscillatory shear measurements with frequency sweep mode reveal that the storage modulus is independent of oscillation frequency and approaches plateau values at low frequencies. With increasing frequency, the storage modulus shows a decreasing trend before increasing again. This trend may be explained by micro-structural variation. In addition, the storage modulus increases gradually with increasing field strength but it shows a slightly decreasing trend with temperature.     

Modulus-switching viscoelasticity of electrorheological networks

To form an electrorheological network (ERN), semiconducting nanoparticles were embedded in a polymer that was cross-linked to restrict particle motion. The microstructure ranged from random to aligned, depending on the degree of field-induced particle alignment during chemical network formation. We investigated in detail the softness effects of the matrix, having a relatively low storage modulus, on the dynamic rheological behavior of the ERN and analyzed its anisotropy. The anisotropy of the microstructure was probed rheologically with the modes of small-amplitude oscillatory shear (loading perpendicular to the field direction) and compression (loading in the field direction). The storage shear modulus was found to be a function of the applied electric field, particle volume fraction, and the pre-alignment electric field strength during the cross-linking reaction of the matrix, which governs the thickness of particle columns and intercolumn distance. Nonlinear behavior at small strain (below 0.1%) was conspicuous; this nonlinear viscoelasticity was accompanied by only a limited deformation of ordered connectivity. Throughout this study, we fabricated the ERN with the highly controllable modulus-switching effect acting in a shear-mode operation. Managing this anisotropy of an ERN by the electrical and chemical process is important in the design of smart materials that will provide improved stability and mechanical strength compared with fluid-type electrorheological materials and faster response time compared with that of conventional charged polymer gel.     

Reological behaviour of concentrated monodisperse suspensions as a function of preshear conditions and temperature: an experimental study

 The influence of preshearing on the rheological behaviour of model suspensions was investigated with a stress-controlled cone-and-plate rheometer. The used matrix fluids showed Newtonian behaviour over the whole range of applied shear stresses. Highly monodisperse spherical glass spheres with various particle diameters were used as fillers. By applying steady preshearing at a low preshear stress, where a diffusion of particles can be expected, it was found for all model suspensions investigated at volume fractions ranging from 0.20 to 0.35 that the time-temperature superposition in the steady shear and in the dynamic mode holds within the chosen temperature range. Furthermore, all presheared model suspensions displayed a high and a low frequency range which are either separated by a shoulder or by a plateau value of G′ at intermediate frequencies. It could clearly be demonstrated that the low frequency range strongly depends on the preshear conditions. Hence, the features observed in the low frequency range can be attributed to a structure formation of a particulate network. In the high frequency range a frequency-dependent behaviour was observed which obeys the classical behaviour of Newtonian fluids (G′∝ω², G′′∝ω). The resulting temperature shift factors from the dynamic and the steady shear mode are identical and independent of the volume fraction and the particle size of the filler. Received: 29 November 2000 Accepted: 12 July 2001     

Dynamic characteristics of a beam specimen featuring electrorheological fluids

The experimental investigations are focused on evaluating the elastodynamic response characteristics of beams fabricated in electrorheological (ER) fluids when the beams are subjected to forced vibration. The beams used in this experiment are composed of three kinds of materials: structural material, damping material and sealant material. Beams with different ER fluids and different structural material are made and tested. The results demonstrate clearly the ability to significantly change the vibrational characteristics of beams fabricated in smart composites by changing the electric field intensity imposed on the fluid domains. With the ASTM standard E756-83 equations, the Young's modulus of the beams and the shear modulus of ER fluids are evaluated.     

Strain stiffening of non-colloidal hard sphere suspensions dispersed in Newtonian fluid near liquid-and-crystal coexistence region

Concentrated hard sphere suspensions often show an interesting nonlinear behavior, called strain stiffening, in which the viscosity or modulus starts to increase at critical strain amplitude. Sudden increase of rheological properties is similar to shear thickening; however, the particle dynamics in the strain stiffening under oscillatory shear flow does not necessarily coincide with the mechanism of shear thickening under step shear flow. In this study, we have systematically investigated the nonlinear rheology of non-colloidal (>1???m) hard sphere suspensions dispersed in Newtonian fluid near liquid-and-crystal coexistence region in order to better understand the strain stiffening behavior. The suspensions near liquid-and-crystal coexistence region are known to locally form the closed packing structure. The critical strain amplitude which is the onset of strain stiffening was different for the storage and loss modulus. But they converged to each other as the suspension forms a more crystalline structure. The critical strain amplitude was independent of medium viscosity, imposed angular frequency, and particle size, but was strongly dependent upon particle volume fraction. The onset of strain stiffening was explained in terms of shear-induced collision due to particle motion in the closed packing structure. Nonlinear stress wave-forms, which reflect the micro-structural change, were observed with the onset of strain stiffening. During the strain stiffening, enhanced elastic stress before and after flow reversal was observed which originates from changes in the suspension microstructure. Nonlinearity of the shear stress in terms of Fourier intensity was extremely increased up to 0.55. Beyond the strain stiffening, the suspension responded liquid-like and the nonlinearity decreased but the elastic shear stress was still indicating the microstructure rearrangement within a cycle.