Layered metastructure containing freely-designed local resonators for wave attenuation

Combining periodic layered structure with three-dimensional cylindrical local resonators,a hybrid metastructure with improved wave isolation ability was designed and investigated through theoretical and numerical approaches.The metastructure is composed of periodic rubber layers and concrete layers embedded with three-dimensional resonators,which can be freely designed with multi local resonant frequencies to attenuate vibrations at required frequencies and widen the attenuation bandgap.The metastructure can also effectively attenuate seismic responses.Compared with layered rubber-based structures,the metastructure has more excellent wave attenuation effects with greater attenuation and wider bandgap.

Fabrication and Mechanical Testing of Ultralight Folded Lattice-CoreSandwich Cylinders

In this research,two novel folded lattice-core sandwich cylinders were designed,manufactured,and tested.The lattice core has periodic zigzag corrugations,whose ridges and valleys are directed axially or circumferentially.Free vibration and axial compression experiments were performed to reveal the fundamental frequency,free vibration modes,bearing capacity,and failure mode of the cylinder.A folded lattice core effectively restricts local buckling by reducing the dimension of the local skin periodic cell,and improves the global buckling resistance by enhancing the shear stiffness of the sandwich core.The cylinders fail at the mode of material failure and possess excellent load-carrying capacity.An axially directed folded sandwich cylinder has greater load-carrying capacity,while a circumferentially directed folded sandwich cylinder has higher fundamental frequencies.These two types of folded lattices provide a selection for engineers when designing a sandwich cylinder requiring strength or vibration.This research also presents a feasible way to fabricate a large-dimensional folded structure and promote its engineering application.

Deformation mode and energy absorption of polycrystal-inspired square-cell lattice structures

Lattice structures are widely used in many engineering fields due to their excellent mechanical properties such as high specific strength and high specific energy absorption(SEA)capacity.In this paper,square-cell lattice structures with different lattice orientations are investigated in terms of the deformation modes and the energy absorption(EA)performance.Finite element(FE)simulations of in-plane compression are carried out,and the theoretical models from the energy balance principle are developed for calculating the EA of these lattice structures.Satisfactory agreement is achieved between the FE simulation results and the theoretical results.It indicates that the 30◦oriented lattice has the largest EA capacity.Furthermore,inspired by the polycrystal microstructure of metals,novel structures of bi-crystal lattices and quad-crystal lattices are developed through combining multiple singly oriented lattices together.The results of FE simulations of compression indicate that the EA performances of symmetric lattice bi-crystals and quad-crystals are better than those of the identical lattice polycrystal counterparts.This work confirms the feasibility of designing superior energy absorbers with architected meso-structures from the inspiration of metallurgical concepts and microstructures.

In vivo mechanical study of helical cardiac pacing electrode interacting with canine myocardium

Cardiac pacing is a medical device to help human to overcome arrhythmia and to recover the regular beats of heart. A helical configuration of electrode tip is a new type of cardiac pacing lead distal tip. The helical electrode attaches itself to the desired site of heart by screwing its helical tip into the myocardium. In vivo experiments on anesthetized dogs were carried out to measure the acute interactions between helical electrode and myocardium during screw-in and pull-out processes. These data would be helpful for electrode tip design and electrode/myocardium adherence safety evaluation. They also provide reliability data for clinical site choice of human heart to implant and to fix the pacing lead. A special design of the helical tip using strain gauges is instrumented for the measurement of the screw-in and pull-out forces. We obtained the data of screw-in torques and pull-out forces for five different types of helical electrodes at nine designed sites on ten canine hearts. The results indicate that the screw-in torques increased steplike while the torque-time curves presente saw-tooth fashion. The maximum torque has a range of 0.3-1.9 Nmm. Obvious differences are observed for different types of helical tips and for different test sites. Large pull-out forces are frequently obtained at epicardium of left ventricle and right ventricle lateral wall, and the forces obtained at right ventricle apex and outflow tract of right ventricle are normally small. The differences in pull-out forces are dictated by the geometrical configuration of helix and regional structures of heart muscle.

Mechanical properties of lattice grid composites

An equivalent continuum method only considering the stretching deformation of struts was used to study the in-plane stiffness and strength of planar lattice grid com- posite materials. The initial yield equations of lattices were deduced. Initial yield surfaces were depicted separately in different 3D and 2D stress spaces. The failure envelope is a polyhedron in 3D spaces and a polygon in 2D spaces. Each plane or line of the failure envelope is corresponding to the yield or buckling of a typical bar row. For lattices with more than three bar rows, subsequent yield of the other bar row after initial yield made the lattice achieve greater limit strength. The importance of the buckling strength of the grids was strengthened while the grids were relative sparse. The integration model of the method was used to study the nonlinear mechanical properties of strain hardening grids. It was shown that the integration equation could accurately model the complete stress-strain curves of the grids within small deformations.

Mechanical properties of lattice grid composites

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Crushing Behaviors of Frac tai Hexagonal Tubular Structures: Experiments and Plastic Analysis

Fractal tubular structures(FTSs)can greatly increase the anti-crushing and energy absorption capacity of the material.To reveal this mechanism,fractal hexagonal tubes(FHTs)with self-similar fractal structure were designed and prepared.Compression experiments were carried out to verify the crushing modes of structures with different scale factors.Compared with the single-cell structure,FHTs have much greater mean crushing force(MCF).According to the experiments and the numerical simulations,when the side length of the second-order hexagon is 0.3 times of the length of the first-order primary hexagon,the FTS has the greatest peak force(PF)and MCF as well as the most excellent energy-absorbing ability.Three folding styles were revealed by the experiments and the numerical simulation when changing the scale factor,including the overall folding mode,the local foaling mode and the hybrid folding mode.Theoretical plastic models were built,which consistently predicted the MCF.

Blast responses of shallow-buried prefabricated modular concrete tunnels reinforced by BFRP-steel bars

This paper reports the anti-blast performance of shallow-buried prefabricated modular tunnel reinforced by basalt fiber-reinforced polymer(BFRP)-steel bars.Three concrete arch members with steel bars and three concrete arch members with BFRP-steel bars were fabricated,with the other arch parameters kept constant.The three identical arches were assembled into an integral structure and then buried in soil for field anti-blast experiments.Through the experiment,the pressure on the vault,the displacement and acceleration of the vault,the strain in the reinforcement bars and the macroscopic damage of the arches under the blast load were determined.To evaluate the damage of the arch tunnel,a residual load-bearing capacity test was conducted on the arch members after the explosion experiment.The experimental results showed that the BFRP-steel bars reinforced concrete arch exhibited a higher load-bearing capacity and more safety redundancy than the steel bars reinforced concrete arch,and that the BFRP-steel bars could inhibit the occurrence of concrete cracks to a certain extent.A comparison between the arches assembled at different positions showed that the prefabricated modular tun-nel can be simplified directly as a two-dimensional arch structure under the blast load for analysis and calculation.

Light-Weight Design of CRH Wind Deflector Panels based on Woven Textile Sandwich Composites

The woven textile sandwich composite（WTSC） is a promising lightweight composite.In bending,two competing core shearing failure modes reduce the strength;deflection induced by the core shearing deformation reduces the flexural rigidity.To replace a solid composite laminate,the span of WTSC panel must be greater than a critical value,which was deduced on the condition that the load capacity and flexural rigidity of the WTSC panel are equal to those of the composite laminate.Three WTSC panels were tested in bending,so that the failure modes were observed,and the critical spans were determined.Using the alternative design method,the WTSC based wind deflector with reduced weight has been fabricated and mounted on the CRH（China Railway High-speed）.

Design,manufacture and crushing behaviors of bucklinginspired auxetic meta-lattice structures

Introducing buckling pattern into straight-walled lattice structure,anovel buckling inspired lattice meta-structure(BILM)was designed and fabricated using polylactic acid(PLA)by three-dimensional(3D)printing technology.The square lattice structure with positive Poisson’s ratio(PPR)is transformed into negative Poisson’s ratio(NPR)structure by buckling induction.Curved struts decrease the maximum strain,prohibit strut fracture,increase strut contact and induce ductile bending deformation.The meta-topology changes the crushing pattern from brittle layer-by-layer fracture,hybrid crushing pattern to stable plastic crushing when increasing the central angle from 0°to 120°.Buckling inspired meta-lattice structures can obviously improve the energy absorption(EA)performance through reducing the initial peak force(IPF)while increasing the EA,specific energy absorption(SEA)and crushing force efficiency(CFE).Ductile crushing endows BILM excellent EA.