A DAMAGE MECHANICS MODEL FOR TWISTED CARBON NANOTUBE FIBERS

Carbon nanotube fibers can be fabricated by the chemical vapor deposition spinning process. They are promising for a wide range of applications such as the building blocks of high-performance composite materials and micro-electrochemical sensors. Mechanical twisting is an effective means of enhancing the mechanical properties of carbon nanotube fibers during fabrication or by post processing. However, the effects of twisting on the mechanical properties remain an unsolved issue. In this paper, we present a two-scale damage mechanics model to quantitatively investigate the effects of twisting on the mechanical properties of carbon nanotube fibers. The numerical results demonstrate that the developed damage mechanics model can effectively describe the elastic and the plastic-like behaviors of carbon nanotube fibers during the tension process. A definite range of twisting which can effectively enhance the mechanical properties of carbon nanotube fiber is given. The results can be used to guide the mechanical twisting of carbon nanotube fibers to improve their properties and help optimize the mechanical performance of carbon nanotube-based materials.     

双网络水凝胶损伤本构模型研究进展

新型高分子生物材料——双网络水凝胶不仅保持了传统水凝胶优良的物理性质,而且具有超高的刚度、强度和韧性等优异的力学性能,具有广阔的应用前景．它们在大变形下表现出应力软化、颈缩、应变硬化、损伤各向异性和损伤交叉效应等复杂的非线性力学行为．研究双网络水凝胶的损伤力学十分必要．本文聚焦共价交联型双网络水凝胶,描述了它们在实验中观察到的力学行为以及相应的微观损伤机理,介绍了现有的损伤本构模型,并概括了这些模型的优点与不足,最后对双网络水凝胶的损伤力学研究进行了简明扼要的展望．     

Viscoelastic analysis of single-component and composite PEG and alginate hydrogels简

Hydrogels, three-dimensional hydrophilic polymer networks, are appealing candidate materials for study- ing the cellular microenvironment as their substantial water content helps to better mimic soft tissue. However, hydrogels can lack mechanical stiffness, strength, and tough- ness. Composite hydrogel systems have been shown to improve upon mechanical properties compared to their single- component counterparts. Poly （ethylene glycol） dimethacrylate （PEGDMA） and alginate are polymers that have been used to form hydrogels for biological applications. Single- component and composite PEGDMA and alginate systems were fabricated with a range of total polymer concentrations. Bulk gels were mechanically characterized using spherical indentation testing and a viscoelastic analysis framework. An increase in shear modulus with increasing polymer con- centration was demonstrated for all systems. Alginate hydro- gels were shown to have a smaller viscoelastic ratio than the PEGDMA gels, indicating more extensive relaxation over time. Composite alginate and PEGDMA hydrogels exhib- ited a combination of the mechanical properties of the con- stituents, as well as a qualitative increase in toughness. Additionally, multiple hydrogel systems were produced that had similar shear moduli, but different viscoelastic behaviors. Accurate measurement of the mechanical properties of hydrogels is necessary in order to determine what parameters are key in modeling the cellular microenvironment.     

Piezoresistive fiber-reinforced composites: A coupled nonlinear micromechanical–microelectrical modeling approach

Piezoresistive composites are materials that exhibit spatial and effective electrical resistivity changes as a result of local mechanical deformations in their constituents. These materials have a wide array of applications from non-destructive evaluation to sensor technology. We propose a new coupled nonlinear micromechanical-microelectrical modeling framework for periodic heterogeneous media. These proposed micro-models enable the prediction of the effective piezoresistive properties along with the corresponding spatial distributions of local mechanical–electrical fields, such as stress, strain, current densities, and electrical potentials. To this end, the high fidelity generalized method of cells (HFGMC), originally developed for micromechanical analysis of composites, is extended for the micro-electrical modeling in order to predict their spatial field distributions and effective electrical properties. In both cases, the local displacement vector and electrical potential are expanded using quadratic polynomials in each subvolume (subcell). The equilibrium and charge conservations are satisfied in an average volumetric fashion. In addition, the continuity and periodicity of the displacements, tractions, electrical potential, and current are satisfied at the subcell interfaces on an average basis. Next, a one way coupling is established between the nonlinear mechanical and electrical effects, whereby the mechanical deformations affect the electrical conductivity in the fiber and/or matrix constituents. Incremental and total formulations are used to arrive at the proper nonlinear solution of the governing equations. The micro-electrical HFGMC is first verified by comparing the stand-alone electrical solution predictions with the finite element method for different doubly periodic composites. Next, the coupled HFGMC is calibrated and experimentally verified in order to examine the effective piezoresistivity of different composites. These include conductive polymeric matrices doped with carbon nano-tubes or particles. One advantage of the proposed nonlinear coupled micro-models is its ability to predict the local and effective electro-mechanical behaviors of multi-phase periodic composites with different conductive phases.     

数据驱动梯度结构材料弹塑性本构

梯度结构材料因其优异的力学性能被广泛应用于工程结构中.论文整合塑性理论和人工神经网络技术,发展了一种构建梯度结构材料弹塑性本构模型的新方法.该方法基于梯度结构材料不同位置的微结构,构建不同代表性体积单元,进而生成应力应变数据,应用生成的数据训练人工神经网络,建立基于神经网络的材料本构模型.应用该方法,论文开展了针对实际...     

Measuring Hyperelastic Properties of Hydrogels Using Cavity Expansion Method

Experimental Mechanics - Numerous methods have been proposed to measure the mechanical properties of hyperelastic materials such as hydrogels. Common techniques, such as tension, compression, and...     

W-Ni-Fe合金静动态力学性能及数值模拟研究

采用MTS材料实验机和旋转盘式间接杆--杆型冲击拉伸试验装置对质量百分数为91%的钨合金材料力学性能进行了研究. 基于试验结果, 建立了具有钨合金典型细观结构的单胞有限元模型, 采用不动点迭代方法给出了该有限元模型的真实位移条件, 分析了不同颗粒度形状以及钨颗粒体积含量等细观参量对钨合金材料在不同载荷作用下力学性能的影响, 给出了钨合金材料在不同载荷作用下的应力--应变曲线, 并与试验结果进行了对比, 二者具有较好的一致性. 通过数值模拟发现不同颗粒度的钨合金材料均为应变率敏感材料; 钨颗粒长径比对材料力学性能的影响不大; 随着钨颗粒质量分数的增加, 钨合金材料的屈服应力有所提高.      

Design and fluid-structure interaction analysis for a microfluidic T-junction with chemo-responsive hydrogel valves

Due to the deformation ability even under small loads, hydrogels have been widely used as a type of soft materials in various applications such as actuating and sensing, and have attracted many researchers to study their behaviors. In this paper, the behavior of hydrogel micro-valves with reverse sensitivity to the p H inside a T-junction flow sorter is investigated. With the fluid-structure interaction(FSI) approach, the effects of various parameters such as the inlet pressure and the p H value on the stress and deformation of the micro-valves are examined, and the results with and without FSI,including the flow rate and the closure p H, are compared. In order to reduce the response time of hydrogels, the effects of three different patterns on the performance of the microvalves are explored. Eventually, it is concluded that FSI is a key influential factor in designing and analyzing the behaviors of hydrogels.     

Development of a micro-indentation device for measuring the mechanical properties of soft materials

Indentation is a simple and nondestructive method to measure the mechanical properties of soft materials, such as hydrogels, elastomers and soft tissues. In this work, we have developed a micro-indentation system with high-precision to measure the mechanical properties of soft materials, where the shear modulus and Poisson's ratio of the materials can be obtained by analyzing the load–relaxation curve. We have validated the accuracy and stability of the system by comparing the measured mechanical properties of a polyethylene glycol sample with that obtained from a commercial instrument. The mechanical properties of another typical polydimethylsiloxane sample submerged in heptane are measured by using conical and spherical indenters, respectively. The measured values of shear modulus and Poisson's ratio are within a reasonable range.     

植物纤维增强复合材料力学高性能化与多功能化研究

论文从植物纤维的微观结构、化学组成以及力学性能入手,针对植物纤维增强复合材料的界面性能,综述了国内外采用植物纤维表面处理方法来提升复合材料力学性能的研究进展,分析了所遇到的瓶颈,并进一步从复合材料结构设计的角度出发,充分利用植物纤维独特的多层次、多尺度的微观结构特点,通过揭示植物纤维增强复合材料多层次、多尺度的界面力学损伤破坏机制,实现了植物纤维增强复合材料的界面调控和力学高性能化。在此基础上,提出了植物纤维增强复合材料兼顾阻燃和声学性能的结构设计原则和特有的界面力学研究方法。此外,也介绍了相关基础研究成果在航空、轨道交通等领域的示范应用,并针对实现绿色复合材料的结构功能一体化的应用提出了未来研究方向。     

竹/塑复合材料力学性能评定及其应用

<正> 复合材料从利用天然材料到利用人工材料,从原始经验到高技术的发展,标志了材料发展史上,从第一代利用天然材料的复合材料到第四代先进复合材料的进程。先进复合材料性能优越,但高性能的碳纤维、芳纶纤维等造价高,影响了广泛应用。利用天然纤维采用新的复合工艺,制成性能良好而又价廉的复合材料,将是广泛应用于生产、生活的材料新品种。      

On the finite bending of functionally graded light-sensitive hydrogels

Meccanica - Considering vast applications of light-sensitive hydrogels in designing sensors and actuators, in this article, a semi-analytical solution is developed for predicting the mechanical...     

Timoshenko beam model for chiral materials

Natural and artificial chiral materials such as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), chromatin fibers, flagellar filaments, chiral nanotubes, and chiral lattice materials widely exist. Due to the chirality of intricately helical or twisted microstructures, such materials hold great promise for use in diverse applications in smart sensors and actuators, force probes in biomedical engineering, structural elements for absorption of microwaves and elastic waves, etc. In this paper, a Timoshenko beam model for chiral materials is developed based on noncentrosymmetric micropolar elasticity theory. The governing equations and boundary conditions for a chiral beam problem are derived using the variational method and Hamilton’s principle. The static bending and free vibration problem of a chiral beam are investigated using the proposed model. It is found that chirality can significantly affect the mechanical behavior of beams, making materials more flexible compared with nonchiral counterparts, inducing coupled twisting deformation, relatively larger deflection, and lower natural frequency. This study is helpful not only for understanding the mechanical behavior of chiral materials such as DNA and chromatin fibers and characterizing their mechanical properties, but also for the design of hierarchically structured chiral materials.     

Competing mechanisms in the wear resistance behavior of biomineralized rod-like microstructures

The remarkable mechanical properties observed in biological composite materials relative to those of their individual constituents distinguish them from common engineering materials. Some naturally occurring high-performance ceramics, like the external veneer of the Chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri) tooth, have been shown to have superior hardness and impressive abrasion resistance properties. The mechanical performance of the chiton tooth has been attributed to a hierarchical arrangement of nanostructured magnetite rods surrounded with organic material. While nanoindentation tests provide useful information about the overall performance of this biological composite, understanding the key microstructural features and energy dissipation mechanisms at small scales remains a challenging task. We present a combined experimental/numerical approach to elucidate the role of material deformation in the rods, debonding at the rod interfaces and the influence of energy dissipation mechanisms on the ability of the microstructure to distribute damage under extreme loading conditions. We employ a 3D finite element-based micromechanical model to simulate the nanoindentation tests performed in geological magnetite and cross-sections of the chiton tooth. This proposed model is capable of capturing the inelastic deformation of the rods and the failure of their interfaces, while damage, fracture and fragmentation of the mineralized rods is assessed using a probabilistic function. Our results show that these natural materials achieve their abrasion resistant properties by controlling the interface strength between rods, alleviating the tensile stress on the rods near the indentation tip and therefore decreasing the probability of catastrophic failure without significantly sacrificing resistance to penetration. The understanding of these competing energy dissipating mechanisms provides a path to the prediction of new combination of materials. In turns, these results suggest certain guidelines for abrasion resistance rod-like microstructures in composites with high volume fraction of brittle minerals or ceramics with tailored performance for specific applications.     

Accurate Reconstruction of Porous Materials via Stochastic Fusion of Limited Bimodal Microstructural Data

Porous materials such as sandstones have important applications in petroleum engineering and geosciences. An accurate knowledge of the porous microstructure of such materials is crucial for the understanding of their physical properties and performance. Here, we present a procedure for accurate reconstruction of porous materials by stochastically fusing limited bimodal microstructural data including limited-angle X-ray tomographic radiographs and 2D optical micrographs. The key microstructural information contained in the micrographs is statistically extracted and represented using certain lower-order spatial correlation functions associated with the pore phase, and a probabilistic interpretation of the attenuated intensity in the tomographic radiographs is developed. A stochastic procedure based on simulated annealing that generalizes the widely used Yeong–Torquato framework is devised to efficiently incorporate and fuse the complementary bimodal imaging data for accurate microstructure reconstruction. The information content of the complementary microstructural data is systematically investigated using a 2D model system. Our procedure is subsequently applied to accurately reconstruct a variety of 3D sandstone microstructures with a wide range of porosities from limited X-ray tomographic radiographs and 2D optical micrographs. The accuracy of the reconstructions is quantitatively ascertained by directly comparing the original and reconstructed microstructures and their corresponding clustering statistics.     

可延展结构的设计及力学研究新进展

可延展柔性电子器件克服了传统无机电子器件脆、硬的缺点,在保持优异电学性能的同时,以其优秀的可延展性极大拓展了微电子器件的应用范围,备受国内外学术界和电子产业界瞩目. 无机电子器件的可延展柔性化主要通过力学结构设计的方法实现,本文针对近两年具有代表性的三种可延展柔性结构设计,包括分形互联岛桥结构、折纸结构和剪纸结构,简要综述了这些结构的力学研究进展,彰显了力学在可延展柔性电子器件发展中的重要作用,并展望了未来的发展方向.     

碳纤维/环氧树脂仿贝壳珍珠层结构强韧机制与性能优化的实验研究

材料的轻量化设计在生产实践中具有重大意义,将天然贝壳珍珠层结构应用到现有的高性能人工合成材料上,能够获得性能更加优异的轻质高强结构材料。本文采用碳纤维/环氧树脂复合材料,设计出了多种具有规则"砖-泥"交错叠层结构的仿贝壳珍珠层复合材料,通过力学性能测试实验、微观结构表征及力学原理分析等对不同片层单元长度及不同单元搭接形式的材料在拉伸载荷下的力学行为进行了研究,探索了其微观结构对材料强度和韧性的影响机制。结果表明,"砖-泥"交错叠层结构中"砖块"单元长度是影响材料强度和韧性的关键因素,而在此基础上通过对片层搭接形式的优化设计,可进一步改善其内部的应力分布与载荷传递机制,从而实现其强度和韧性的进一步提升与有效调控。     

负泊松比材料和结构的研究进展

负泊松比材料和结构具有特殊的力学性能,在单轴压力(拉力)作用下发生横向收缩(膨胀).其在抗剪承载力、抗断裂性、能量吸收和压陷阻力等方面比传统材料更有优势,因而负泊松比材料在医疗设备、传感器、防护设备、航空航海及国防工程等领域有广泛的应用前景,但目前负泊松比材料的应用与普及仍面临一些挑战.本文广泛讨论了国内外关于负泊松比材料的研究成果并介绍了负泊松比材料的最新进展,将负泊松比材料大体概括为以下4类:天然负泊松比材料、胞状负泊松比材料、金属负泊松比材料、多重和复合负泊松比材料.主要介绍了各种负泊松比材料的内部结构、负泊松比机理、力学性能以及在各行各业的新发明、新应用.针对目前负泊松比材料研究理论和实验成果多,而实际应用仍然较少的情况,指出了负泊松比材料的缺点及其推广所面临的挑战.目前负泊松比材料面临的主要问题是制造成本高、孔隙率大而承载力不足以及仅适用于小应变情况等.本文针对此情况详细介绍了金属负泊松比材料及其设计和制作的方法,改善负泊松比材料的不足并推广其应用.      

A nonlinear mechanics model of bio-inspired hierarchical lattice materials consisting of horseshoe microstructures

Development of advanced synthetic materials that can mimic the mechanical properties of non-mineralized soft biological materials has important implications in a wide range of technologies. Hierarchical lattice materials constructed with horseshoe microstructures belong to this class of bio-inspired synthetic materials, where the mechanical responses can be tailored to match the nonlinear J-shaped stress–strain curves of human skins. The underlying relations between the J-shaped stress–strain curves and their microstructure geometry are essential in designing such systems for targeted applications. Here, a theoretical model of this type of hierarchical lattice material is developed by combining a finite deformation constitutive relation of the building block (i.e., horseshoe microstructure), with the analyses of equilibrium and deformation compatibility in the periodical lattices. The nonlinear J-shaped stress–strain curves and Poisson ratios predicted by this model agree very well with results of finite element analyses (FEA) and experiment. Based on this model, analytic solutions were obtained for some key mechanical quantities, e.g., elastic modulus, Poisson ratio, peak modulus, and critical strain around which the tangent modulus increases rapidly. A negative Poisson effect is revealed in the hierarchical lattice with triangular topology, as opposed to a positive Poisson effect in hierarchical lattices with Kagome and honeycomb topologies. The lattice topology is also found to have a strong influence on the stress–strain curve. For the three isotropic lattice topologies (triangular, Kagome and honeycomb), the hierarchical triangular lattice material renders the sharpest transition in the stress–strain curve and relative high stretchability, given the same porosity and arc angle of horseshoe microstructure. Furthermore, a demonstrative example illustrates the utility of the developed model in the rapid optimization of hierarchical lattice materials for reproducing the desired stress–strain curves of human skins. This study provides theoretical guidelines for future designs of soft bio-mimetic materials with hierarchical lattice constructions.     

轻质高强点阵材料及其力学性能研究进展

点阵材料是一种新型轻质高强材料, 同时具备形状控制、致动、能量吸收和传热等多种功能. 文章综述了点阵材料的拉伸主导型设计原则、点阵构型和制备工艺. 拉伸主导型点阵材料的比强度和比刚度明显强于一般胞元材料, 在低密度时质量效率更加突出. 根据材料的基本构型特征主要介绍了三维八角点阵以及夹层点阵材料, 比较分析了熔模铸造法和冲压折叠成型工艺的特点. 总结了研究点阵材料力学性能的理论方法和试验研究成果, 研究表明缺陷对点阵材料力学性能的影响明显小于一般胞元材料. 对点阵材料在形状控制与致动、传热和数值计算方面的应用研究成果进行了介绍. 文中归纳了作者近期在炭纤维点阵复合材料方面的工作, 给出了制备炭纤维隐身点阵格栅的探索性工作. 主要包括炭纤维点阵复合材料的三维编织工艺和二维点阵格栅的嵌锁工艺以及隐身点阵格栅反射率试验测试结果.