轿车车门铰链焊接变形分析 I.基于复合有限元法的凸焊工艺过程模拟

作为轿车车门铰链凸焊焊接变形研究工作的一部分,根据轿车车门凸焊的具体情况,建立了一个二维有限元凸焊模型。并通过一个复杂的复合有限元分析流程,对整个凸焊工艺过程进行了完整的分析,得到了凸焊凸点压溃过程,凸焊焊核成形过程以及焊后温度场分布等一系列结果。并将模拟得到的成形焊核与试验结果相比较,得到了较好的结论。文中的研究结果将为接下来的凸焊焊后残余应力和焊接变形分析打下良好的工作基础。

Finite element analysis of strain distribution in ZK60 Mg alloy during cyclic extrusion and compression

Finite element method was used to study the strain distribution in ZK60 Mg alloy during multi-pass cyclic extrusion and compression （CEC）. In order to optimize the CEC processing, the effects of friction condition and die geometry on the distribution of total equivalent plastic strain were investigated. The results show that the strain distributions in the workpieces are inhomogeneous after CEC deformation. The strains of the both ends of the workpieces are lower than that of the center region. The process parameters have significant effects on the strain distribution. The friction between die and workpiece is detrimental to strain homogeneity, thus the friction should be decreased. In order to improve the strain homogeneity, a large corner radius and a low extrusion angle should be used.

Prediction of the thermo-elastic properties of knitted structural composites using FEM

It is a very important and complex task to estimate the thermo-elasticproperties of a textile structural composite. In this paper, the finite element method (FEM) wasused for the prediction of the orthotropic thermo-elastic properties of a composite reinforced byglass fiber knitted fabric. In order to define the final 3-D configuration of the loop reinforcingstructure, the interactions between the adjacent loops, the large displacement and the contactelements without friction were considered. The values predicted were compared with the experimentalresults.

Three-dimensional finite element analysis of process-induced residual stress in resin transfer molding process

A three-dimensional finite element analysis of process-induced residual stress in resin transfer molding (RTM) process is presented. The finite element method (FEM) was employed to solve the coupled equations involved in the transient heat transfer and the cure kinetics of the resin, and the distributions of internal temperature and cure degree of the composite at any instant time were obtained. The self-consistent field micro-mechanics model was used to predict the cure-dependent mechanical properties of the composites. Thermal expansion and cure shrinkage were included in the analysis. The thermo-elastic mechanical governing equations were solved using the incremental stress-strain relationship based FEM and the residual stress development was predicted. The present results were validated by the comparisons with the pertinent literature. The numerical example of a half cylinder was presented. The results show that it is necessary to carry out the three-dimensional analysis due to the complex distributions of temperatures, cure degrees and process-induced stress for thick parts, which can be predicted at any point within composite structures in the present analysis.

Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Active Vibration Control for Beams Using Pole Placement Method

The vibration control in the frequency domain is significant.Therefore,an active vibration control in frequency domain is studied in this paper.It is generally known that piezo-intelligent structures possess satisfactory performances in the area of vibration control,and macro-fiber composites(MFCs)with high sensitivity and deformability are widely applied in engineering.So,this paper uses the MFC patches and designs a control method based on the pole placement method,and the natural frequency of the beam can be artificially designed.MFC patches are bonded on the top and bottom surfaces of the beam structure to act as the actuators and sensors.Then,the finite element method(FEM)is used to formulate the equation of motion,and the pole placement based on the out-put feedback method is used to design the active controller.Finally,the effectiveness of the active control method is verified.

Finite element formulation of axisymmetric heat transfer problem for orthotropic materials

By using Galerkin’s method, the finite element formulation is made for axisymmtric heat transfer problems for anisotropic materials from the heat transfer differential equations expressed in terms of heat fluid density. Results of an example show that the heat transfer anisotropy has an important effect on temperature field.

The Settlement Characteristic of Underground Urban Complex in Shanghai

The effects of excavation unloading, construction reloading and underground water on basal heave of excavation projects were presented and analyzed based on the measurement results of an underground urban complex which was located in Shanghai. The effects on water pressure and building settlements were analyzed as well. The numerical analyses by finite element method (FEM) were conducted. It showed that the soil under the excavation base continued to heave during the following certain construction stage. It also found that the bearing capacity of uplift piles which supported the buildings affected the structure quality significantly. The conclusions can be applied in future projects.

Convergence and complexity of arbitrary order adaptive mixed element methods for the Poisson equation

This paper discusses convergence and complexity of arbitrary,but fixed,order adaptive mixed element methods for the Poisson equation in two and three dimensions.The two main ingredients in the analysis,namely the quasi-orthogonality and the discrete reliability,are achieved by use of a discrete Helmholtz decomposition and a discrete inf-sup condition.The adaptive algorithms are shown to be contractive for the sum of the error of flux in L2-norm and the scaled error estimator after each step of mesh refinement and to be quasi-optimal with respect to the number of elements of underlying partitions.The methods do not require a separate treatment for the data oscillation.

Structural effects of three-dimensional angle-interlock woven composite undergoing bending cyclic loading

This paper reports the structural effects of three-dimensional(3-D)angle-interlock woven composite(3DAWC)undergoing three-point bending cyclic loading from experimental and finite element analysis(FEA)approaches.In experiment,the fatigue tests were conducted to measure the bending deflection and to observe the damage morphologies.By the FEA approach,a micro-structural unit-cell model of the 3DAWC was established at the yarn level to simulate the fatigue damage.The stress degradation at the loading condition of constant deformation amplitude was calculated to show the degradation of mechanical properties.In addition,the stress distribution,fatigue damage evolution and critical damage regions were also obtained to qualitatively reveal the structural effects and damage mechanisms of the 3DAWC subjected to three-point bending cyclic loading.

Wave propagation of laminated composite plates via GPU-based wavelet finite element method

This paper presents a novel parallel implementation technology for wave-based structural health monitoring (SHM) in laminated composite plates. The wavelet-based B-spline wavelet on he interval (BSWI) element is constructed according to Hamilton’s principle, and the element by element algorithm is parallelly executed on graphics processing unit (GPU) using compute unified device architecture (CUDA) to get the responses in full wave field accurately. By means of the Fourier spectral analysis method,the Mindlin plate theory is selected for wave modeling of laminated composite plates while the Kirchhoff plate theory predicts unreasonably phase and group velocities. Numerical examples involving wave propagation in laminated composite plates without and with crack are performed and discussed in detail. The parallel implementation on GPU is accelerated 146 times comparing with the same wave motion problem executed on central processing unit (CPU). The validity and accuracy of the proposed parallel implementation are also demonstrated by comparing with conventional finite element method (FEM) and the computation time has been reduced from hours to minutes. The damage size and location have been successfully determined according to wave propagation results based on delay-and-sum (DAS). The results show that the proposed parallel implementation of wavelet finite element method (WFEM) is very appropriate and efficient for wave-based SHM in laminated composite plates.