Multi-pulse orbits dynamics of composite laminated piezoelectric rectangular plate

The multi-pulse orbits and chaotic dynamics of a simply supported laminated composite piezoelectric rectangular plate under combined parametric excitation and transverse excitation are studied in detail. It is assumed that different layers are perfectly bonded to each other with piezoelectric actuator patches embedded. The nonlinear equations of motion for the laminated composite piezoelectric rectangular plate are derived from von Karman-type equation and third-order shear deformation plate theory of Reddy...     

Dynamic response of gravity dam model with crack and damage detection

Gravity dam is a typical structure that has been frequently used in the fields of water conservancy engineering, and the safety of the structure has received widespread attention recently. Due to earthquakes or other reasons, gravity dams normally have damage such as cracks in practical service. Damage in the structures can alter the structural dynamic behavior and seriously affect structural performance. Maintaining safety and integrity of the gravity dam structures requires a better understanding of dynam...     

A constitutive model for granular materials considering grain breakage

A particle breakage has a significant impact on the mechanical behavior of granular materials. In this paper, we present an elasto-plastic model with two yield surfaces to which the influence of particle breakage has been introduced. The main feature of this model is to incorporate the change in the critical state line (CSL) consequent to the grain breakage induced by isotropic and deviatoric stresses during loading. For this purpose we propose a breakage function which connects the evolution of the CSL to ...     

Numerical study on two-phase flow through fractured porous media

Based on the flux equivalent principle of a single fracture,the discrete fracture concept was developed,in which the macroscopic fractures are explicitly described as(n-1)dimensional geometry element.On the fundamental of this simplification,the discrete-fractured model was developed which is suitable for all types of fractured porous media.The principle of discrete-fractured model was introduced in detail,and the general mathematical model was expressed subsequently.The fully coupling discrete-fractured ma...     

Production of thick-walled hollow glass microspheres for inertial confinement fusion targets by sol-gel technology

To fabricate thick-walled hollow glass microspheres(HGMs)for inertial confinement fusion(ICF)targets by sol-gel technology,we investigated the effects of glass composition,blowing agent,refining temperature,pressure and composition of furnace atmosphere on the wall thickness of HGMs by numerical simulation and experiments.The results showed that the residence times of the thick-walled HGMs in the encapsulating and refining phases decreased with the increase of wall thickness of HGMs.As a response to this ch...     

Abnormality diagnosis of cracks in the concrete dam based on dynamical structure mutation

A method of the fuzzy cross-correlation factor exponent in dynamics is researched and proposed to diagnose abnormality of cracks in the concrete dam. Moreover, the Logistic time series changing from period-doubling bifurcation to chaos is tested first using this method. Results indicate that it can distinguish inherent dynamics of time series and can detect mutations. Considering that cracks in the concrete dam constitute an open, dissipative and complex nonlinear dynamical system, a typical crack on the do...     

The numerical simulation of interface crack propagation without re-meshing

Based on the framework of the extended finite element method (XFEM), the enriched exponent discontinuous function is modified properly by introducing the rigidity ratio of two sides materials of interface crack, and the portion integral scheme is adopted for interface elements containing two materials. To embody the singularity of the crack tip, the triangle function is introduced directly. What’s more, the maximum loop stress fracture criterion is adopted to determine the extension direction in extended ma...     

Percolation transport and magnetic transitions in a phase-separated manganite La_(0.55)Ca_(0.45)MnO_3

The structural,electronic and magnetic properties of La0.55Ca0.45MnO3 were measured.A rapid change of lattice parameters appeared around 190 K associated with the d z2 orbital ordering and charge ordering (CO) states that were reflected by both magnetization and resistivity.Great difference of magnetizations between the field-cooling (FC) and zero-field-cooling (ZFC) modes below the charge ordering temperature TCO in high magnetic field (H > 4 T) was clearly seen.A field of 5 T (threshold field) is sufficie...     

Robust nonlinear control of spacecraft formation flying using constraint forces

A robust nonlinear control method is presented for spacecraft precise formation flying.With the constraint forces and consid-ering nonlinearity and perturbations,the problem of the formation keeping is changed to the Lagrange systems with the holonomic constraints and the differential algebraic equations (DAE).The nonlinear control laws are developed by solving the DAE.Because the traditional numerical solving methods of DAE are very sensitive to the various errors and the resulting con-trol laws are not ro...     

Necessary and sufficient conditions of the rendezvous between a single spacecraft and three non-coplanar Walker constellation satellites

The probability of the rendezvous between a single spacecraft and three non-coplanar constellation satellites is studied,and the necessary and sufficient conditions of the rendezvous without orbital maneuver are deduced.The rendezvous orbit design can be transformed into the patching of two spacecraft orbits,either of which can achieve the rendezvous with two satellites.Firstly,due to the precious quality of spherical geometry,the unique existence of the rendezvous orbit for two constellation satellites is ...