压电纤维复合材料层合壳的非线性动力学研究

本文对横向激励作用下的1-3型压电纤维复合材料层合壳进行了非线性动力学分析,并研究了压电特性对结构振动响应的影响.首先建立了压电纤维复合材料层合壳的非线性动力学方程,并且在已知的几何结构和材料特性基础上考虑了电场属性.然后根据位移边界条件,选择合适的振型函数,通过Galerkin方法将运动控制方程转化成两自由度的非线性常微分方程.通过数值模拟方法分析了横向激励和压电系数对压电纤维复合材料层合壳非线性振动特性的影响.通过波形图、三维相图、庞加莱图和分叉图等来研究壳体不同类型的周期和混沌运动.结果表明,外激励作用下结构存在复杂的非线性振动响应,同时压电参数对层合壳结构振动响应具有很强的调节作用.     

ON THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR IN LINEAR THERMOELASTICITY OF MATERIALS WITH VOIDS

The present article studies the spatial and temporal behavior of the solutions to the initial boundary value problems associated with the linear theory of thermoelastic materials with voids. The spatial behavior is described by spatial estimates of Saint-Venant type (for bounded bodies) and Phragmén-Lindelöf type (for unbounded bodies) with time-dependent and time-independent rates. Some appropriate time-weighted integral measures are used. The temporal behavior is studied using the Cesaro means of various parts of the total energy. The relations describing the asymptotic behavior of the Cesaro means are established.     

WETTABILITY AND SURFACE ENERGETICS OF ROUGH FLUOROPOLYMER SURFACES

Hydrophobic solid surfaces with controlled roughness were prepared by coating glass slides with an amorphous fluoropolymer (Teflon® AF1600, DuPont) containing varying amounts of silica spheres (diameter 48 μm). Quasi-static advancing, θ_A, and receding, θ_R, contact angles were measured with the Wilhelmy technique. The contact angle hysteresis was significant but could be eliminated by subjecting the system to acoustic vibrations. Surface roughness affects all contact angles, but only the vibrated ones, θ_V, agree with the Wenzel equation. The contact angle obtained by averaging the cosines of θ_A and θ_R is a good approximation for θ_V, provided that roughness is not too large or the angles too small. Zisman's approach was employed to obtain the critical surface tension of wetting (CST) of the solid surfaces. The CST increases with roughness in accordance with Wenzel equation. Advancing, receding, and vibrated angles yield different results. The θ_A is known to be characteristic of the main hydrophobic component (the fluoropolymer). The θ_V is a better representation of the average wettability of the surface (including the presence of defects).     

New ecological fluid bed nitrocarburising technology for improvement of properties in X160CrMoV121 steel

Abstract

New technologies for fluidised bed nitrocarburising are described that employ either a chemically active bed or a chemically inert bed, plus additional activation of the fluid bed with mechanical vibration (alone or accompanied by the flow of a gas medium). Investigations were performed on X160CrMoV121 tool steel, with three methods of nitrocarburisation, at 580°C for 2 and 4 h. The nitrocarburised layers produced were investigated via surface hardness tests and microhardness distribution examination, metallography and X-ray spectrometry. Wear results are also reported. The new processes are reported to reduce gas consumption and to provide better case properties under optimised process conditions.     

Geometrically Non-Linear Rapid Heating of Temperature-Dependent Circular FGM Plates

Based on the uncoupled thermoelasticity assumptions, axisymmetric thermally induced vibrations of a circular plate made of functionally graded materials (FGMs) are analyzed. Each thermomechanical property of the circular plate is assumed to be functions of temperature and thickness coordinate. Solution of the transient one-dimensional heat conduction equation with the arbitrary type of time-dependent boundary conditions is carried out employing the central finite difference method combined with the Crank–Nicolson time marching scheme. Afterwards, with the establishment of the associated Hamilton's principle and the accountancy of the von Kármán type of geometrical non-linearity, the motion equations are obtained with the aid of the conventional multi-term Ritz method. The solution of highly coupled non-linear motion equations is obtained utilizing a hybrid iterative Newton–Raphson–Newmark scheme. After validating the developed computer code, some parametric studies are accomplished to show the influences of various involved parameters. It is shown that temperature dependency, geometrical non-linearity, plate thickness, power law index, and the type of thermal in-plane and out-of-plane mechanical boundary conditions, all affect the temporal evolution of plate characteristics.