Modified spherical cavity-expansion model for projectile penetration into concrete targets

A modified spherical cavity-expansion model is developed in this paper.(1) We introduce a piecewise hyperbolic yield criterion suitable for pressure less than fc/3 to describe the mechanical behavior in the elastic region for the elastic-plastic response and modify the crack occurrence condition for the elastic-cracked-plastic response.(2) The hyperbolic yield criterion and a piecewise equation of state (EOS) are adopted for a better description of the plastic behavior of concrete material. Then, the modified model is validated by several projectile penetration tests in both the normal strength concrete (NSC) and ultra-high performance cement-based composite (UHPCC) targets. Finally, the hydrostatic pressure of the targets under rigid ogive-nosed projectile penetrations is found to be nearly within (0, 1.6 GPa), which usually exceeds the range that the shear strength-pressure test data covered. The influence of yield criterion on depth of penetration is discussed and it is recommended that the pressure should arrive at least 400 MPa in the related triaxial compression tests.

Superconductivity Observed in Tantalum Polyhydride at High Pressure

We report experimental discovery of tantalum polyhydride superconductor.It was synthesized under highpressure and high-temperature conditions using diamond anvil cell combined with in situ high-pressure laser heating techniques.The superconductivity was investigated via resistance measurements at pressures.The highest superconducting transition temperature T_(c)was found to be~30 K at 197 GPa in the sample that was synthesized at the same pressure with~2000 K heating.The transitions are shifted to low temperature upon applying magnetic fields that support the superconductivity nature.The upper critical field at zero temperatureμ_0H_(c2)(0)of the superconducting phase is estimated to be~20 T that corresponds to Ginzburg-Landau coherent length~40 A.Our results suggest that the superconductivity may arise from 143d phase of TaH_(3).It is,for the first time to our best knowledge,experimental realization of superconducting hydrides for the VB group of transition metals.

Three-Dimensional Lattice Kinetic Scheme and its Application to Simulate Incompressible Viscous Thermal Flows

In this paper,the three-dimensional lattice kinetic scheme is presented to simulate incompressible viscous thermal flows.As compared with the standard LBM,the present scheme has the following good features.It can save the computer memory since there is no need to store the density distributions.Like the conventional NS solvers,the implementation of boundary conditions is straightforward since the dependent variables are the macroscopic flow parameters.The easy implementation of boundary conditions is a good property for solving three-dimensional flow problems.The present scheme is validated by simulating the three-dimensional natural convection in an air-filled cubical enclosure,which is heated differentially at two vertical side walls.The obtained numerical results compare very well with available data in the literature.