Heat transfer characteristics of impinging jets: The influence of unsteadiness with different waveforms

A series of experiments are conducted in which specially designed periodic air jets are applied to a heated surface for the purpose of enhancing heat transfer relative to the corresponding steady air jet. The periodic jets are produced by a mass flow rate controller. The experiments are performed for steady jets and for specially designed periodic jets, including a combination of sinusoidal, triangular and rectangular jets at frequencies from 1.25 to 20 Hz, the triangular signal having a different symmetry (representing the ratio of time to increasing velocity in one cycle to total cycle time) and the rectangular jets having a variable duty cycle (representing the ratio of the pulse cycle on-time to off-time) at frequencies of 10 Hz and 20 Hz. Various unsteady jets show distinguishing frequency dependences and the step change, i.e. the sudden increase or decrease of signal, shows some advantageous influence on heat transfer improvement, especially negative step change. Therefore, the enhancement of combined signals lies between the performances of the individual signals. The enhancement for triangular (or sinusoidal) plus rectangular signals shows some improved performance compared with that of rectangular plus triangular (or sinusoidal) signals. The heat transfers are enhanced as Strouhal number increases from 0.004 to 0.068 on the whole for impinging jet with such combined signals. The signals of triangular jet with symmetry parameter of 0 and 1 have improved heat transfer, and the latter has a slightly better result than the former. The instantaneous changing rate of velocity also has an influence on heat transfer improvements. Thus the duty cycle of 1:2 has the best performance in terms of heat transfer enhancement in this study.     

Characteristics of turbine spacing in a wind farm using an optimal design process

The characteristics of turbine spacing for optimal wind farm efficiency were investigated using combined numerical models. The effects of wakes from upstream turbines were predicted by a model capable of determining velocity distributions on a rotor plane, based on Ainslie's approach. The performance results of a wind farm showed good agreement with measurements. The blade element momentum theory, in combination with a dynamic wake model, was applied. Wake model used the results of aerodynamic analysis as input properties. The optimal distance between wind turbines was predicted using a genetic algorithm to maximize efficiency in a wind farm. The results showed that the spacing between the first and the second turbines had the importance to the entire farm's efficiency.     

Load transfer of graphene/carbon nanotube/polyethylene hybrid nanocomposite by molecular dynamics simulation

Load transfer of the graphene/carbon nanotube (CNT)/polyethylene hybrid nanocomposite is studied here from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Simulations of this composite material under uniaxial tension were conducted by varying CNT’s position and diameter in the polymer matrix. The obtained results show that: (1) The peak strength of stress and strain evolution in the polymer matrix is lower than the peak strength of the graphene/graphene and graphene/polymer interfaces. Hence, the damage zone is always located in the polymer matrix. (2) Agglomerated two-layer graphenes do not possess an increased value in the peak strength compared with single-layer graphene-reinforced polymer nanocomposite (PNC), while two separate layers of graphene show slightly higher peak strength. (3) The largest peak strength is observed before CNT moves to the center of the polymer matrix. The damage location moves from the upper to the lower part of CNT when the CNT is located at the centre of polymer matrix. (4) The influence of the CNT diameter on the peak strength is not obvious, while the damage location and shape in the polymer matrix changes with respect to varying CNT diameters. In addition, the damage zone always falls outside the interphase zone.     

Preparation of pressure-sensitive adhesives from tung oil via Diels-Alder reaction

In this study, tung oil was polymerized with a dimaleimide (4,4’-methylene-bis(N-phenylmaleimide) (MPMI) and two diacrylates (poly(propylene glycol) diacrylate (PPGDA) and bisphenol A glycerolate diacrylate (BPAGDA) via Diels-Alder reaction (DA reaction) to prepare pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs). On the one hand, the polymer of tung oil and MPMI was readily prepared however it was too rigid to serve as a PSA. On the other hand, the polymerization of tung oil with PPGDA or BPAGDA resulted in PSAs with peel strengths ranging from 0.1 to 0.2 N cm⁻¹ and loop tacks ranging from 0.4 to 0.5 N. Nevertheless, tung oil reacted readily with acrylic acid to form adducts (TOAA) with lower content of conjugated diene groups than those of tung oil. The use of TOAAs instead of tung oil to polymerize PPGDA failed to increase the peel strength of the resulting PSAs. However, polymerizations of TOAAs with BPAGDA resulted in PSAs with much higher peel strengths and much higher loop tacks than the polymerization of tung oil with BPAGDA. In addition, the introduction of a small amount of MPMI in the polymerization of TOAA and PPGDA significantly shortened the curing time.     

Effect of interfacial imperfection on bending behavior of composites and sandwich laminates by an efficient C0 FE model

The bending behavior of composites and sandwich plates having imperfections at the layer interfaces is investigated by a refined higher order shear deformation plate theory (RHSDT) and a Least Square Error (LSE) method. In this theory, the in-plane displacement field is obtained by superposing a globally varying cubic displacement field on a zig-zag linearly varying displacement field. This plate theory represents parabolic through thickness variation of transverse shear stresses which satisfy the inter-laminar continuity condition at the layer interfaces and zero transverse shear stress condition at the top and bottom of the plate. In this plate model, the interfacial imperfection is represented by a liner spring-layer model. Finite element method is adopted and an efficient C⁰ continuous 2D finite element (FE) model is developed based on the above mentioned plate theory for the static analysis of composites and sandwich laminates having imperfections at the layer interfaces. In this model, the first derivatives of transverse displacement have been treated as independent variables to circumvent the problem of C¹ continuity associated with the above plate theory (RHSDT). The LSE method is applied to the 3D equilibrium equations of the plate problem at the post-processing stage, after in-plane stresses are calculated by using the above FE model based on RHSDT. The proposed model is implemented to analyze the laminated composites and sandwich plates having interfacial imperfection. Many new results are also presented which should be useful for the future research.     

拉压异性纤维增强树脂基复合材料弹塑性问题的有限元分析

为了对复杂的非线性问题进行便捷求解,首先提出了考虑拉压异性的纤维增强树脂基复合材料统一非线性本构模型;然后,在此基础上进一步导出了本构模型的三维表现形式,以适用于非线性有限元分析工具的开发;随后,利用有限元软件ABAQUS提供的用户自定义子程序UMAT,自编了在二维和三维情况下的弹塑性应力分析程序;最后,应用程序对复合材料单向板和复合材料斜交板在偏轴拉伸/压缩下应力-应变曲线的预测与测试结果进行了比较,探讨了复合材料悬臂梁的弹塑性问题,并分析和比较了有无考虑拉压异性情况下应力分布和挠度响应的差异。结果表明:运用所提出的本构模型对考虑拉压不对称问题的弹塑性变形分析十分有效,这一本构模型有望成为实用数值分析工具,进而指导工程实践。     

流变岩体中椭圆洞室断面开挖过程的力学分析

给出了黏弹性流变岩体中深埋椭圆隧洞断面开挖过程中力学响应的解析解答。通过设定长短半轴随时间变化的函数可模拟施工过程。首先,结合变边界黏弹性问题对应关系和平面弹性复变方法,求得岩体应力及开挖引起位移的统一表达。在推导中,通过建立逆映射函数,分离出参与Laplace变换的时间。然后,对模拟为Boltzmann黏弹模型的岩石材料,给出了积分形式的位移表达式。最后,针对不同类型岩石进行不同开挖方式和速度下无量纲位移及应力的参数分析。分析表明,施工方式对位移与应力有明显影响。给出的解析解答可用于地下椭圆孔型隧道在开挖过程中的力学分析,并可作为实际工程初步设计的手段。     

300M钢表面喷丸强化工艺应用研究

目的 对比和研究300 M钢的铸钢丸和陶瓷丸喷丸强化后的效果,选择合适的300 M钢喷丸强化工艺.方法 采用铸钢弹丸和陶瓷弹丸以不同喷丸强度对300 M钢表面进行喷丸强化,研究对300M钢表面粗糙度、表面残余压应力及疲劳寿命的影响.结果 随着喷丸强度的增大,300 M钢表面粗糙度增大,但在相同或相当的喷丸强度下,采用陶瓷弹丸喷丸强化可获得更小的表面粗糙度;试样表面残余压应力均为先增大后减小,分别在喷丸强度为0.25A和0.2A时达到最大值.在大应力水平试验条件下,两种弹丸不同喷丸强度下的300M钢中值疲劳寿命增益均不明显;在小应力水平试验条件下,两种弹丸不同喷丸强度下的300 M钢中值疲劳寿命增益差异显著,铸钢弹丸喷丸强化最大值达到22,陶瓷弹丸喷丸强化最大值达到38.结论 铸钢丸和陶瓷丸喷丸均可以提高300 M钢的疲劳寿命.相对于铸钢丸喷丸,300M钢的陶瓷丸喷丸后的粗糙度水平更低,疲劳寿命更长.     

空隙、杂质及组分突变对功能梯度构件动力特性的影响

功能梯度材料具有复杂的细部结构, 其内部构造远比匀质材料复杂, 因此其构件动力分析很难求得其解析解。本文中提出了一种新颖的功能梯度构件动力分析的细观元法, 其目的在于建立材料的宏观性能与其组分材料性能及细观构造之间的定量关系, 以便揭示不同的材料组合及其变异所具有不同的宏观性能的内在机制。利用细观元法对含有空隙、 杂质及组分突变等情况下的功能梯度构件进行动力分析, 求得其三维固有频率及振型的三维分布。从而可知空隙、 杂质及组分突变均对功能梯度材料构件的宏观动力特性有很大的影响。      

基于非线性本构关系的复合材料风机叶片有限元极限分析与设计

为了研究具有三维复杂构形的复合材料风机叶片的逐次破坏过程和极限承载能力, 将复合材料细观力学非线性本构理论桥联模型与有限元软件ABAQUS通过用户子程序UGENS结合起来对风力发电机叶片结构进行极限强度分析。只需提供纤维和基体的材料性能参数、 纤维体积含量以及蒙皮和增强筋的铺层数据包括铺设角、 层厚和铺层数, 就可预报出复合材料复杂叶片结构的整体承载能力以及叶片破坏所处的位置, 为正确评估和合理设计风机叶片结构提供了一种简便有效的分析方法。以一种20kW风机叶片为例, 用此方法实现了新型复合材料叶片结构的极限分析和合理设计, 提高了叶片的强度和刚度, 有效降低了叶片的重量。本文中的方法同样适用于其它复合材料复杂结构的极限分析与强度设计。