For practical engineering purpose, a new flat shell element baptized （ACM_Q4SBE1） is presented in this paper. The formulated element can be used for the analysis of thin shell structures; no matter how the geometric...For practical engineering purpose, a new flat shell element baptized （ACM_Q4SBE1） is presented in this paper. The formulated element can be used for the analysis of thin shell structures; no matter how the geometrical shape might be. Tests on standard problems have been examined. Since, the analysis of thin shell structures has generally been purely carried out on a theoretical basis; it is of importance to present some experimental results of an elliptical paraboloid under uniformly distributed load pressure. The results obtained from both numerical and experimental work are presented.展开更多
As one kind of key lightweight components with enormous quantities and diversities, the bent tubular parts have attracted in- creasing applications in aerospace, automobile, etc. Thus, how the inevitable springback be...As one kind of key lightweight components with enormous quantities and diversities, the bent tubular parts have attracted in- creasing applications in aerospace, automobile, etc. Thus, how the inevitable springback behaves under different bending specifications should be fully addressed to efficiently achieve the precision forming of various bent tubes. Taking the medium strength thin-walled 6061-T4 Al-alloy tube as the objective, via the deformation theory of plasticity, explicit/implicit FE method and experimental approaches, we explored and clarified the nonlinear springback rules of the tubes and corresponding mechanisms in universal rotary draw bending regarding angular springback and radius growth by deliberately changing the tube diameter D and wall thickness t. The geometry dependent springback behaviors of thin-walled tube upon cold bending are thus revealed: 1) With the increasing of D, the tangent tensile strain increases and the proportional coefficient decreases, which causes the angular springback to decrease, while the radius springback increases due to the larger bending radius. 2) With the increasing of t, the tangent tensile strain decreases and the proportional coefficient increases, resulting in the increase of both angular springback and radius springback. 3) Under the same D/t, the angular springback varies little, while the radius springback increases with the larger diameter D. 4) The D/t can be used as a reasonable nondimensional index to evaluate the springback angle; as to the radius growth, the individual effects of the D and t should be considered. 5) The verification of the above results was conducted by experiments and analytical analysis.展开更多
The wrinkling law of annular sheet which is induced by capillary force with inner liquid film is analyzed in this paper.The results show that the inner liquid film can wrinkle the annular sheet when the surface tensio...The wrinkling law of annular sheet which is induced by capillary force with inner liquid film is analyzed in this paper.The results show that the inner liquid film can wrinkle the annular sheet when the surface tension of the liquid film reaches a critical value,and the critical value can be dramatically altered by changing the geometry and properties of the annular sheet.The results obtained in this article may hold potential applications in generating three-dimensional structures through capillary effects.展开更多
Thermal losses for a buried vertical thin plate can be expressed as a function of the assigned temperature distribution,the medium conductivity and the geometrical properties that describe the model. When the geometri...Thermal losses for a buried vertical thin plate can be expressed as a function of the assigned temperature distribution,the medium conductivity and the geometrical properties that describe the model. When the geometricalproperties reduce to one, the plate-ground thermal resistance can be expressed regardless of plate dimension, dependingonly on temperature distribution given at surface plate and its temperature difference with medium.展开更多
Inflatable membrane antennas have been extensively applied in space missions;however,the simulation methods are not perfect,and many simulation methods still have many difficulties in accuracy,efficiency,and stability...Inflatable membrane antennas have been extensively applied in space missions;however,the simulation methods are not perfect,and many simulation methods still have many difficulties in accuracy,efficiency,and stability.Therefore,the extended position-based dynamics(XPBD)method is employed and improved for the simulation of folded inflatable structures in this paper.To overcome the problem that the original XPBD method with only geometric constraints does not contain any mechanical information and cannot reflect the mechanical characteristics of the structure,we improve the XPBD method by introducing the strain energy constraint.Due to the complicated nonlinear characteristics of the membrane structures,the results with the traditional finite element method(Abaqus)cannot converge,while the tension field theory(TFT)can,but some pretreatments are needed.Compared with them,the method in this paper is simple and has better stability to accurately predict the displacement,stress,and wrinkle region of the membrane structure.In addition,the present method is also compared with the experiment in the reference to verify the feasibility of the folded tube simulation.Finally,the present method is applied to simulate inflatable membrane antennas and analyze the deployable driving force and deployable process sequence of each component.展开更多
文摘For practical engineering purpose, a new flat shell element baptized （ACM_Q4SBE1） is presented in this paper. The formulated element can be used for the analysis of thin shell structures; no matter how the geometrical shape might be. Tests on standard problems have been examined. Since, the analysis of thin shell structures has generally been purely carried out on a theoretical basis; it is of importance to present some experimental results of an elliptical paraboloid under uniformly distributed load pressure. The results obtained from both numerical and experimental work are presented.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50905144)Program for New Century Excellent Talentsin University+2 种基金the fund of the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing in NWPUthe Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2011JQ6004)the 111 Project (Grant No.B08040)
文摘As one kind of key lightweight components with enormous quantities and diversities, the bent tubular parts have attracted in- creasing applications in aerospace, automobile, etc. Thus, how the inevitable springback behaves under different bending specifications should be fully addressed to efficiently achieve the precision forming of various bent tubes. Taking the medium strength thin-walled 6061-T4 Al-alloy tube as the objective, via the deformation theory of plasticity, explicit/implicit FE method and experimental approaches, we explored and clarified the nonlinear springback rules of the tubes and corresponding mechanisms in universal rotary draw bending regarding angular springback and radius growth by deliberately changing the tube diameter D and wall thickness t. The geometry dependent springback behaviors of thin-walled tube upon cold bending are thus revealed: 1) With the increasing of D, the tangent tensile strain increases and the proportional coefficient decreases, which causes the angular springback to decrease, while the radius springback increases due to the larger bending radius. 2) With the increasing of t, the tangent tensile strain decreases and the proportional coefficient increases, resulting in the increase of both angular springback and radius springback. 3) Under the same D/t, the angular springback varies little, while the radius springback increases with the larger diameter D. 4) The D/t can be used as a reasonable nondimensional index to evaluate the springback angle; as to the radius growth, the individual effects of the D and t should be considered. 5) The verification of the above results was conducted by experiments and analytical analysis.
文摘The wrinkling law of annular sheet which is induced by capillary force with inner liquid film is analyzed in this paper.The results show that the inner liquid film can wrinkle the annular sheet when the surface tension of the liquid film reaches a critical value,and the critical value can be dramatically altered by changing the geometry and properties of the annular sheet.The results obtained in this article may hold potential applications in generating three-dimensional structures through capillary effects.
文摘Thermal losses for a buried vertical thin plate can be expressed as a function of the assigned temperature distribution,the medium conductivity and the geometrical properties that describe the model. When the geometricalproperties reduce to one, the plate-ground thermal resistance can be expressed regardless of plate dimension, dependingonly on temperature distribution given at surface plate and its temperature difference with medium.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11922203 and 11772074).
文摘Inflatable membrane antennas have been extensively applied in space missions;however,the simulation methods are not perfect,and many simulation methods still have many difficulties in accuracy,efficiency,and stability.Therefore,the extended position-based dynamics(XPBD)method is employed and improved for the simulation of folded inflatable structures in this paper.To overcome the problem that the original XPBD method with only geometric constraints does not contain any mechanical information and cannot reflect the mechanical characteristics of the structure,we improve the XPBD method by introducing the strain energy constraint.Due to the complicated nonlinear characteristics of the membrane structures,the results with the traditional finite element method(Abaqus)cannot converge,while the tension field theory(TFT)can,but some pretreatments are needed.Compared with them,the method in this paper is simple and has better stability to accurately predict the displacement,stress,and wrinkle region of the membrane structure.In addition,the present method is also compared with the experiment in the reference to verify the feasibility of the folded tube simulation.Finally,the present method is applied to simulate inflatable membrane antennas and analyze the deployable driving force and deployable process sequence of each component.
