今日更新:International Journal of Solids and Structures 1 篇,Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 2 篇,Thin-Walled Structures 2 篇
International Journal of Solids and Structures
Crack layer modeling of butt-fusion joints induced slow crack growth in high-density polyethylene pipes
Abdulla Almomani, Abdel-Hamid I. Mourad
doi:10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2024.112970
高密度聚乙烯管道中对接熔接接头诱导缓慢裂纹增长的裂纹层建模
The design and reliability of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes can be dictated by the damage tolerance of their butt-fusion joints. A slow crack growth (SCG) model based on the crack layer theory for HDPE pipes internal and external circumferential and butt-fusion joints cracks is developed to investigate the discontinuous SCG behavior and lifetime tf variations. Using the developed model, the discontinuous SCG patterns, jump lengths and lifetime tf can be accurately simulated. In addition, the effects of pipes standard dimension ratio, internal pressure, and temperature on the SCG behavior and tf are investigated. Compared to pipe cracks, it was found that butt-fusion induced SCG can reduce the pipe tf > 60 %. Unlike longitudinal cracks, tf of external circumferential cracks, were found shorter than the internal ones, mandating an earlier evaluation. The new SCG model shows good accuracy with the experimental results. The same substitute geometry approach used can be followed for othercomplex designs, which aids in establishing a fundamental methodology for more realistic lifetime predictions.
Imbibition of water into a cellulose foam: the kinetics
Ratul Das, Vikram S. Deshpande, Norman A. Fleck
doi:10.1016/j.jmps.2024.105763
水浸入纤维素泡沫:动力学
Cellulose foams are representative of many porous engineering solids that can absorb a large quantity of fluid such as water. Experiments are reported to give insight into water rise in cellulose foams and the underlying mechanisms. The water rise characteristic of water height h versus time t displays a distinct knee on a log-log plot; this knee separates an initial regime where h scales as t 1/2 from a subsequent regime where h scales as t 1/4. The rate of water rise below the knee is consistent with the Washburn law of water rise in a single dominant capillary, and the knee in the h(t) curve suggests that the Jurin height of this large capillary has been attained. Water rise in the foam above the knee of the h(t) curve is interpreted as water rise in a population of small capillaries with a wide range of radius that feed off the dominant capillary. A series of critical experiments support this interpretation, including water rise in inclined columns, and water rise from a limited reservoir of water. A simple analytical model is used to provide a physical explanation for the observations. Additionally, X-ray computer tomography is used to deduce the probability density function of the small capillaries. The experimental findings are in support of the hypothesis that water rise in the cellulose foam is driven by capillary action and not by diffusion.
纤维素泡沫是许多多孔工程固体的代表,可以吸收大量液体(如水)。本报告通过实验深入探讨了纤维素泡沫中的水上升现象及其内在机理。水高度 h 随时间 t 变化的水上升特性在对数-对数图上显示出一个明显的膝点;该膝点将 h 随 t 1/2 变化的初始状态与 h 随 t 1/4 变化的后续状态区分开来。膝点以下的水位上升速度符合单个主要毛细管中水位上升的沃什伯恩定律,而 h(t)曲线上的膝点表明,该大型毛细管的汝林高度已经达到。h(t) 曲线膝盖以上泡沫中的水上升被解释为从主要毛细管中汲取水的半径范围较大的小毛细管群中的水上升。一系列关键实验支持了这一解释,包括倾斜柱中的水上升和来自有限储水层的水上升。一个简单的分析模型为观测结果提供了物理解释。此外,还利用 X 射线计算机断层扫描来推断小毛细管的概率密度函数。实验结果支持这样的假设,即纤维素泡沫中水的上升是由毛细作用而非扩散驱动的。
Statistical mechanics of plasticity: Elucidating anomalous size-effects and emergent fractional nonlocal continuum behavior
Pratik Khandagale, Liping Liu, Pradeep Sharma
doi:10.1016/j.jmps.2024.105747
塑性统计力学:阐明异常尺寸效应和出现的分数非局部连续行为
Extensive experiments over the decades unequivocally point to a pronounced scale-dependency of plastic deformation in metals. This observation is fairly general, and broadly speaking, strengthening against deformation is observed with the decrease in the size of a relevant geometrical feature of the material, e.g., the thickness of a thin film. The classical theory of plasticity is size-independent, and this has spurred extensive research into an appropriate continuum theory to elucidate the observed side effects. This pursuit has led to the emergence of strain gradient plasticity, along with its numerous variants, as the paradigm of choice. Recognizing the constrained shear of a thin metallic film as the model problem to understand the observed size-effect, all conventional (and reasonable candidate) theories of strain gradient plasticity predict a scaling of yield strength that inversely varies with the film thickness ∼h−1. Experimental findings indicate a considerably diminished scaling, the magnitude of which can exhibit significant variation based on processing conditions or even the mode of deformation. As an example, the scaling exponent as low as −0.2 has been observed for as-deposited copper thin films. Two perspectives have been posited to explain this perplexing anomaly. Kuroda and Needleman (2019) argue that the conventional boundary conditions used in strain gradient plasticity theory are not meaningful for the canonical constrained thin film problem and propose a physically motivated alternative. Dahlberg and Ortiz (2019) contend that the intrinsic differential calculus structure of all strain gradient plasticity theories will invariably lead to the incorrect (or rather inadequate) explanation of the size-scaling. They propose a fractional strain gradient plasticity framework where the derivative fractional order is a material property that correlates with the scaling exponent. In this work, we present an alternative approach that complements the existing explanations. We create a statistical mechanics model for interacting microscopic units that deform and yield with the rules of classical plasticity, and plastic yielding is treated as a phase transition. We coarse-grain the model to precisely elucidate the microscopic interactions that can lead to the emergent size-effects observed experimentally. Specifically, we find that depending on the nature of the long-range microscopic interactions, the emergent coarse-grained theory can be of fractional differential type or alternatively a form of integral nonlocal model. Our theory, therefore, provides a partial (and microscopic) justification for the fractional derivative model and makes clear the precise microscopic interactions that must be operative for a continuum plasticity theory to be a valid phenomenological descriptor for capturing the correct scale dependency.
Unified Method for Predicting the Fatigue Life of Pipe–Sphere Joints in Grid Structures
Saicong Guo, Hanchao Liu, Xiaoling Liu, Guoqing Wang, Honggang Lei
doi:10.1016/j.tws.2024.112209
预测网格结构中管球接头疲劳寿命的统一方法
Pipe–sphere joints (PSJs), which are commonly used in grid structures, are susceptible to fatigue failure under cyclic loading caused by suspended cranes. This paper presents a unified method for predicting the fatigue life of PSJs, including the weld toes on both the pipe and sphere surfaces, based on equivalent structural stress. A decomposition and recombination fitting (DRF) method was proposed to determine the optimal functional form of stress concentration factors (SCFs). A nonlinear regression analysis was conducted on the calculated results of 61 common PSJs to obtain a semi-analytical expression for the structural stress of the weld toes. Using this unified method, the fatigue life of the weld toes on both the pipe and sphere surfaces was estimated. The results indicated that the logarithmic ratios between the predicted fatigue life and experimental results were typically 0.93–1.08 for weld toes on pipe surfaces and 0.97–1.13 for weld toes on spherical surfaces, confirming the accuracy of the method. This unified method is applicable to predict the fatigue life of PSJs of various sizes and involves concise mathematical calculations independent of finite element analysis, thereby facilitating engineering applications. The DRF method can be used as a reference for fitting SCFs to specific structures. Furthermore, this prediction method enables the identification of the failure modes in PSJs. As the size of the steel pipe increased, the fatigue failure gradually shifted from the pipe surface to the sphere surface.
The design and construction of submerged complex shells for new applications in offshore structures are increasingly popular. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to present the analytical model and Lagrange multipliers associated with the constraint equation for large displacement analysis of a fifth-order polynomial–shaped shell under hydrostatic pressure for the first time. The shell geometry can be computed using differential geometry with a fifth-order polynomial. The energy functional of the fifth-order polynomial–shaped shell is derived based on the principle of virtual work and written in the appropriate form. The nonlinear static responses of the fifth-order polynomial–shaped shell under hydrostatic pressure can be calculated using the nonlinear finite element method via the fifth-order polynomial shape function. This study develops the model using one-dimensional beam elements divided along the shell radius. To avoid the slope of a meridian curve at the equatorial plane approaching infinity, the shell is divided into two regions defined by different surface parameters. At the junction of two adjacent regions, the continuity requirements are established as the constraint conditions using Lagrange multipliers. The numerical results from the proposed methods are demonstrated and discussed, along with the effects of varied seawater depth, thickness, and elastic modulus on the deformed configuration and principal curvature at the deformed state. The results show that the nonlinear displacement is higher than the linear one in the case of the hydrostatic pressure, whereas the case of the internal pressure has an opposite result. For principal curvatures at the apex, the principal curvatures increase as the seawater depth increases, whereas the principal curvatures decrease when the thickness and elastic modulus increase.