Analysis of Adiabatic Shearing Failure Mechanism for Aluminum Matrix Composites Based on Experimental and Numerical Simulation

Adiabatic shear behavior and the corresponding mechanism of TiB2/Al composites were researched by split Hopkinson pressure bar （SHPB）.Results show that the flow stresses of the TiB2/Al composites exhibit softening tendency with the increasing of strain rates. All the composites fail in splitting and cutting with a 45 degree, and the phase transformed bands of molten aluminum are found on the adiabatic shear layers. The deformation behavior and shear localization of the TiB2/Al composites specimens were simulated by finite element code MSC.Marc. The Johnson-Cook model was used to describe the thermo-viscoplastic response of the specimen material. There was unanimous between the numerical result and the experimental result on the location of the adiabatic shear band. From the numerical simulation and experiment, it was concluded that the instantaneous failure of the composite was ascribed due to the local low strength area where the formation of adiabatic shear band was, and the stress condition had significant effect on the initiation and propagation of adiabatic shear band （ASB）.

High Performance Compressed Sampling for OFDM-UWB Systems

In order to solve the problem of high-speed sampling in OFDM based ultra wide band(UWB) systems, this paper first gives analysis on the applicability of existing compressed sampling methods. Then, on the basis of an established segmented observation model, it presents an optimized parallel segmented compressed sampling(OPSCS) scheme based on Hadamard matrix. The orthogonal Hadamard matrix is adopted to construct the segmented measurement matrix with any dimensions, thus orthogonal or quasi-orthogonal multiplex observation sequences are obtained, and the restricted isometry property is improved. The optimized orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm is also used for the known sparsity avoiding iterative operation. Researches show that the proposed method can effectively reduce the sampling rate in OFDM-UWB systems, and also has a good ability of noise resisting that it achieves a high system performance better than the existing schemes of compressed sampling and even Nyquist rate sampling.

Serration Behavior in Zr-Cu-Al Glass-forming Systems

The metallic glass matrix composites（MGMCs）and bulk metallic glasses（BMGs）were studied by statistical analysis during plastic deformation at the strain rates of 2×10^-2,2×10^-3,and 2×10^-4 s^-1,respectively.No serration events occur in both MGMCs and BMGs during compression tests at the strain rate of 2×10^-2 s^-1.When deformed at the strain rate of 2×10^-3 s^-1,the BMG displays a larger plasticity,which is due to the larger serration events followed by a series of small serrations caused by the continuous movement of free volume.The amplitudes and elastic-energy densities increase with increasing the strain rates owing to many serrations in MGMCs.It is deduced that the Young′s modulus decreases from the normalized stress drop and fluctuations are observed on stressstrain curves,which is attributed to a lower coefficient according to the stick-slip model.