Beyond Mechanical Recycling: Giving New Life to Plastic Waste

Increasing the stream of recycled plastic necessitates an approach beyond the traditional recycling via melting and re‐extrusion. Various chemical recycling processes have great potential to enhance recycling rates. In this Review, a summary of the various chemical recycling routes and assessment via life‐cycle analysis is complemented by an extensive list of processes developed by companies active in chemical recycling. We show that each of the currently available processes is applicable for specific plastic waste streams. Thus, only a combination of different technologies can address the plastic waste problem. Research should focus on more realistic, more contaminated and mixed waste streams, while collection and sorting infrastructure will need to be improved, that is, by stricter regulation. This Review aims to inspire both science and innovation for the production of higher value and quality products from plastic recycling suitable for reuse or valorization to create the necessary economic and environmental push for a circular economy.     

THE RATE-INDEPENDENT CONSTITUTIVE MODELING FOR POROUS AND MULTI-PHASE NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL

To determine the time-independent constitutive modeling for porous and multiphase nanocrystalline materials and understand the effects of grain size and porosity on their mechanical behavior, each phase was treated as a mixture of grain interior and grain boundary, and pores were taken as a single phase, then Budiansky's self-consistent method was used to calculate the Young's modulus of porous, possible multi-phase, nanocrystalline materials, the prediction being in good agreement with the results in the literature. Further, the established method is extended tosimulate the constitutive relations of porous and possible multi-phase nanocrystalline materials with small plastic deformation in conjunction with the secant-moduli approach and iso-strain assumption. Comparisons between the experimental grain size and porosity dependent mechanical data and the corresponding predictions using the established model show that it appears to be capable of describing the time-independent mechanical behaviors for porous and multi-phase nanocrystalline materials in a small plastic strain range. Further discussion on the modification factor, the advantages and limitations of the model developed were present.     

塑料光纤纤端光场测试结果及分析

对纤端光场进行了理论分析,分别利用塑料光纤和多模光纤作为接收光纤对塑料光纤的出射纤端光场进行了测量,并与理论分析结果进行了比较,给出了合理的调和参数.传输距离较长的塑料光纤由于高阶模的泄漏,纤端光场分布非常接近高斯分布.实验结果表明了理论分析结果和调和参数选择的合理性.     

Characterization of the molecular deformation behavior of glassy epoxy resins by rheo-optical FTIR spectroscopy

Rheo-optical FTIR spectroscopy was used for the first time to monitor molecular orientation phenomena in highly crosslinked epoxies. After studying the orientation behavior of epoxy/amine networks during uniaxial deformation above their glass transition temperature in a preceding article, this article deals with the rheo-optical characterization of the deformation process of those epoxy systems below T_g. The orientation behavior is influenced by the different molecular structure of the constituents and the free volume entrapped in the resins. Yield strain and tensile modulus are correlated with the slope of the orientation function. The orientation function was found to show an abrupt change of its slope in the yield point region. This phenomenon is discussed with respect to the mechanism of plastic deformation. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

螺栓松动边界下纤维增强复合薄板的振动测试方法

提出了基于预埋压力传感器的量化测试方法,研究了螺栓松动边界对纤维增强复合薄板振动特性的影响。首先,自主设计并开发了带有预埋压力传感器的螺栓松动边界下复合薄板的振动测试系统,并详细介绍了系统各个部件的组成和功能;然后,归纳出一套合理、规范的松动边界下复合薄板的振动测试流程,并对HF10碳纤维/树脂复合薄板进行了实际测试。结果表明:随着螺栓松动程度的不断增加,复合薄板的固有频率逐渐降低,模态振型的节线位置也发生了不同程度的变化,但其阻尼结果呈现先增大后减小的趋势;而共振和非共振响应呈现先减小后增大的趋势。     

低碳钢塑性变形量磁评定法研究

针对塑性变形量评定的局限问题,基于铁磁材料塑性变形致位错在不同方向分布不同的现象,研究了磁测法在定量评定低碳钢塑性变形量方面的应用前景。实验以工程中常用的低碳钢Q195钢板为测试材料,制作了形状尺寸一致的一批试件,并对其进行了不同程度的塑性变形量加载。通过搭建的磁化检测系统,采用相同强度及频率的正弦波激励,对所有样品进行了不同方向的磁化;同时经线圈及隧道磁敏电阻(TMR)采集了每次磁化的磁化曲线,提取了磁化曲线特征参数,对比了其与塑性变形量的定量关系。结果表明:随着塑性变形量的增加,铁磁钢材在同一磁场强度下产生的磁感应强度也会变大;沿主塑性变形方向磁化时,磁滞消耗能量最少,沿主塑性变形垂直方向磁化时,磁滞消耗的能量最多;磁路内磁场在主塑性变形方向上对塑变量的变化最敏感,而磁路外磁场在主塑变垂直方向上对塑变量的变化最敏感。实现了铁磁材料磁特征参数与塑性变形量的定量关联。本研究为开发简捷的铁磁材料塑性变形量无损评定磁方法奠定了基础。     

基于塑性铰理论的车身概念设计正碰分析与优化方法

在概念设计阶段,车身碰撞安全性能评价是一个难点问题,需要详细的结构模型,本文基于塑性铰理论提出采用梁单元简化模型对框架车身进行概念设计阶段的耐撞性评估和优化设计方法。首先,介绍了关于箱型截面薄壁梁弯曲特性研究的理论模型与计算过程,接着赋予梁单元塑性铰的特性,模拟薄壁梁变形,再对框架车身进行了碰撞仿真。将仿真结果与详细模型对比,以分析简化模型的精度及可靠性。最后,以此为基础对框架车身进行耐撞性优化。结果表明,该简化模型易于创建,且有较高的精度,可用于概念设计阶段梁结构的设计工作。     

理想弹塑性固体Riemann问题的解结构与初值条件

针对理想弹塑性固体材料的一维Riemann问题,在不考虑真空的情况下,讨论其所有可能存在的解结构,给出每一种解结构下对应的初值条件且证明该系列初值条件的完备性,即任意给定的物理量初值均有且只有一种解结构与之对应.基于该理论,在设计精确或近似理想弹塑性Riemann问题求解器时,可以依据初值条件对任意物理量初值直接判断其对应的解结构,从而提高求解器的精度和效率.数值试验验证了该系列初值条件的正确性和有效性.     

手机虹膜识别镜头设计

随着近年来图像传感器的快速商用化以及生物识别算法的发展,虹膜识别功能得以应用于移动终端设备。获取虹膜图像是虹膜识别的关键一步,运用ZEMAX光学设计软件设计了一款适用于手机的虹膜识别镜头。该镜头采用豪威科技公司OmniVision_OV2281传感器,采用三片式非球面光学塑料设计,F数为2.3,全视场角为34°,在1/2奈奎斯特频率220 lp/mm处MTF值均大于0.39,且系统总长仅3 mm。根据ZEMAX像质评价方法以及公差分析结果可知,该镜头各项光学指标优良,具有像质好、体积小,质量轻、价格低、容易加工等特点。