Deformation of an ellipsoidal ferrogel sample in a uniform magnetic field

The elongation of a ferroelastic material sample (whose initial shape is a sphere or an ellipsoid of revolution) under the action of an external magnetic field is studied in an in approximation of small strains. For a sphere, there is a classical estimate obtained under the assumption that elongating in the direction of the field, it becomes a spheroid and the stress and strain fields remain uniform. In the present calculation, it is assumed that the body is an ellipsoid (a sphere in a particular case) only in the absence of an external field; the shape of the sample in the presence of a field is not specified in advance but is found from the condition of balance of surface forces (elastic and magnetic). For the spherical case, the problem is solved exactly: it is shown, that the contour of the deformed body is described by a third-order algebraic equation. The case where the initial configuration is an ellipsoid of revolution is studied numerically. It is shown that in all versions, the refined solution leads to an appreciable increase in the elongation of the sample compared to the classical estimate. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 153–164, May–June, 2005.     

汶川地震触发陕西省境内地质灾害灾险情特征

在实地调查、汶川地震震后次生地质灾害隐患排查成果的基础上,结合县市地质灾害调查数据,从灾情和险情两个方面,对汶川地震触发地质灾害灾险情的致灾灾险情、灾种、类型等特征进行了较系统的分析对比。进一步比较了陕西在汶川地震触发地质灾害受灾省份中的情况,并对地质灾害趋势做了初步预测。研究表明,灾险情集中分布在龙门山构造带向陕西境内的延伸部分,险情比灾情分布范围广。灾险情的灾种都以崩塌为主,其次为滑坡,地震对地质体的震动触发作用明显。机关学校是汶川地震触发陕西境内地质灾害的主要受灾对象。陕西受汶川地震触发地质灾害的灾险情轻于四川、甘肃,三省地质灾害震前均较为严重,地震触发地质灾害的影响具有长期性,未来陕西境内地质灾害发生的频率可能增大。     

Hydraulic analysis of free-surface flows with solidification

Summary The paper is concerned with a one-dimensional analysis of plane open-channel flow with continuous solidification. The process is of relevance for recent developments in the casting of steel and other metals. The bottom of the channel consists of a rotating casting roll and a horizontal cooling table, where the solidified material is withdrawn with given velocity. The study is restricted to the region downstream of the top of the casting roll. Surface tension is neglected. In the main part of the analysis inviscid fluid flow is considered since the Reynolds number is very large in the applications. It is found that the steady-state solutions are nonunique in a certain parameter range. In addition to a continuous solution, there are two solutions including hydraulic jumps, with one hydraulic jump being located on the casting roll, the other one on the cooling table. Regarding the stability of the non unique solutions, the evolution of disturbances is investigated numerically as an initial-value problem. It is concluded that the hydraulic jump on the cooling table is unstable, while the other discontinuous solution as well as the continuous solution are stable for sufficiently small disturbances. Which stable solution is attained in the steady state, depends on the history of the process. Friction at the liquid/solid interface is taken into account in the last part of the analysis. A constant friction coefficient is assumed. It is found that the history of the process determines the steady-state solution if, and only if, the friction coefficient is sufficiently small. For larger values of the friction coefficient, the steady-state solution is unique and independent of the history of the transient process. Furthermore, for sufficiently large friction coefficients, stable hydraulic jumps are found, in contrast to the inviscid case, also on the cooling table. Received 19 March 1999; accepted for publication 3 May 1999     

Steady sliding frictional contact problem for a 2d elastic half-space with a discontinuous friction coefficient and related stress singularities

The steady sliding frictional contact problem between a moving rigid indentor of arbitrary shape and an isotropic homogeneous elastic half-space in plane strain is extensively analysed. The case where the friction coefficient is a step function (with respect to the space variable), that is, where there are jumps in the friction coefficient, is considered. The problem is put under the form of a variational inequality which is proved to always have a solution which, in addition, is unique in some cases. The solutions exhibit different kinds of universal singularities that are explicitly given. In particular, it is shown that the nature of the universal stress singularity at a jump of the friction coefficient is different depending on the sign of the jump.     

风机叶片涂层雨蚀研究

研究了风电叶片在雨水冲击下的失效过程,利用有限元方法建立雨水冲击的数值模型,分析了雨滴的冲击角度、直径、涂层性能等对涂层受力的影响,并对双雨滴及四雨滴耦合模型进行了研究。结果表明:风雨耦合流场中叶片最大载荷在叶尖处,涂层的冲击受力与雨滴冲击角度和雨滴直径的大小呈正相关。低模量涂层能大幅降低涂层受冲击时的拉伸应力,小幅增加其压缩应力。同一平面内的双雨滴耦合时,拉伸应力受影响的范围较大,压缩应力受影响的范围较小。不同高度差下的双雨滴耦合中,随着高度差的增大,材料拉伸和压缩应力都呈现先增后减的趋势,其中压缩应力随高度差的变化幅度明显大于拉伸应力。四雨滴耦合时压缩应力对间距的变化更加敏感。涂层失效的过程主要为:涂层表面拉应力疲劳产生微裂纹;液压渗透引起裂纹扩展,涂层质量减少,表面粗糙度增加;表面小范围破坏后形成的凹面结构促进涂层的失效。     

A kernel gradient free (KGF) SPH method

The finite particle method (FPM) is a modified SPH method with high order accuracy while retaining the advantages of SPH in modeling problems with free surfaces, moving interfaces, and large deformations. In both SPH and FPM, kernel gradient is necessary in kernel and particle approximation of a field function and its derivatives. In this paper, a new FPM is presented, which only involves kernel function itself in kernel and particle approximation. The kernel gradient is not necessary in the whole computation, and this approach is thus referred to as a kernel gradient free (KGF) SPH method. This is helpful when a kernel function is not differentiable or the resultant kernel gradient is not sufficiently smooth, and thus it is more general in selecting a kernel function. Moreover, different from the original FPM with an asymmetric corrective matrix, in the new FPM, the resultant corrective matrix is symmetric, and this is advantageous in particle approximations. A series of numerical examples have been conducted to show the efficiencies of KGF‐SPH including one‐dimensional mathematical tests of polynomial functions with equal or variable smoothing length and two‐dimensional incompressible fluid flow of shear cavity. It is found that KGF‐SPH is comparable with FPM in accuracy and is flexible as SPH. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

岩溶塌陷的类型、成因机制及防治途径──兼论武汉市岩溶塌陷勘查工作要点

按岩溶塌陷的类型, 对其成因机制作了分析。在此基础上, 提出了武汉市岩溶塌陷勘查与防治工作要点。     

弹性半空间二维出平面自由波场的一维化时域算法

提出了一种计算出平面SH波斜入射时弹性半空间自由波场时域计算的一维化有限元方法。首先利用Snell定律确定平面波沿水平方向的传播规律,在用有限元法对弹性半空间进行离散化时,竖向单元尺寸根据波动有限元模拟精度要求确定,而水平向有限元网格尺寸根据水平向波的传播规律和采用的离散时间步长确定,使得有限元离散模型中任意节点的运动可以用水平向相邻节点的运动表示,从而将二维有限元节点运动方程组化为一维的形式。求解此一维方程组,可得到弹性半空间中一列节点的运动,再根据行波的传播规律,可确定全空间自由波场。理论分析和数值算例表明,该方法具有较高的精度和良好的稳定性。     

Performance of a flapping foil flow energy harvester in shear flows

Through numerical simulations, we investigate the energy harvesting performance of a heaving/pitching foil in shear flow. With two-dimensional Navier–Stokes simulations, we examined the energy harvesting efficiencies of such a system in linear shear flows and compared the results with those in uniform flows. It is found that in low shear rates, the performance of the system in linear shear flow is slightly higher than that in uniform flow, whereas the energy harvesting efficiency is greatly diminished if the shear rate is sufficiently high (this effect is more pronounced in higher frequencies). This is attributed to the effects of linear shear on the vorticity generation and the synchronization between fluid forcing and foil motion – when a strong shear flow is introduced the lift force induced by the leading edge vortex that is in phase with the heaving motion of the foil is diminished. Furthermore, by studying the instability of the wake behind the foil, we confirm that the optimal performance of the foil in linear shear flows is associated with the same physical mechanism that controls the performance of the foil in uniform flows, i.e. the excitation of the most unstable modes in the wake when the oscillation frequency of the foil is close to the frequencies of these modes.     

新疆下坂地水库坝基防渗墙试验研究

新疆下坂地水利枢纽工程地处高寒、高海拔的山区,坝基覆盖层厚度达147.95m,透水性强,易坍塌和漏浆,块石坚硬,坝基防渗处理难度罕见。针对这一工程问题进行了坝基防渗墙试验研究,结果表明,以大深度混凝土防渗墙为主墙,下接帷幕灌浆的墙幕结合方案。本文针对新疆下坂地深厚覆盖层坝基防渗墙进行了试验研究,找出了防渗墙有效的施工深度及合理的施工方法,从而为坝基防渗墙设计施工提供了可靠的依据。