Quantification of dynamic tensile parameters of rocks using a modified Kolsky tension bar apparatus

For brittle materials, the tensile strength plays an important role in mechanical analyses and engineering applications. Although quasi-static direct and dynamic indirect tensile strength testing methods have already been developed for rocks, the dynamic direct pull test is still necessary to accurately determine the tensile strength of rocks. In this paper, a Kolsky tension bar system is developed for measuring the dynamic direct tensile strength of rocks. A dumbbell-shaped sample is adopted and attached to the bars using epoxy glue. The pulse shaping technique is utilized to eliminate the inertial effect of samples during test. The single pulse loading technique is developed for the effective microstructure analyses of tested samples. Two absorption devices are successfully utilized to reduce the reflection of waves in the incident bar and transmitted bar, respectively. Laurentian granite （LG） is tested to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method. The tensile strength of LG increases with the loading rate. Furthermore, the nominal surface energy of LG is measured, which also increases with the loading rate.

A Symplectic Method of Numerical Simulation on Local Buckling for Cylindrical Long Shells under Axial Pulse Loads

In this paper,the local buckling of cylindrical long shells is discussed under axial pulse loads in a Hamiltonian system.Using this system,critical loads and modes of buckling of shells are reduced to symplectic eigenvalues and eigensolutions respectively.By the symplectic method,the solution of the local buckling of shells can be employed to the expansion series of symplectic eigensolutions in this system.As a result,relationships between critical buckling loads and other factors,such as length of pulse load,thickness of shells and circumferential orders,have been achieved.At the same time,symmetric and unsymmetric buckling modes have been discuss.Moreover,numerical results show that modes of post-buckling of shells can be Bamboo node-type,bending type,concave type and so on.Research in this paper provides analytical supports for ultimate load prediction and buckling failure assessment of cylindrical long shells under local axial pulse loads.

Possible Collapse Mode for Slender Reinforced Concrete Plates Subjected to Blast Load

This paper discusses the collapse mode of thin reinforced concrete (RC) plates sub-jected to blast load. To extend the well known plastic-mode method to analyze, not only perfect-plastic plates , but also RC plates, it is needed to investigate the effect of material cracking on the collapse mode because the plate might have been cracked on both upper and lower surface before the plastic-mode fully develops, creating an unexpected type of collapse mode shape. A new fail-ure mode is proposed and verified by numerical analysis in this paper. The new mode is a result of the material cracking and has an un-negligible effect on the reaction mechanism of the RC plate to the blast load.

Temperature of the Limiter Surface Measured by IR Camera in HT-7 Tokamak

Temperature measurement by IR （infrared） camera was performed oll HT-T tokamak. particularly during long pulse discharges, during which the temperature of the hot spots on the belt limiter exceeded 1000℃. The heat load on the surface of the movable limiter could be obtained through ANSYS with the temperature measured by IR-camera. This work could be important for the temperature measurement and heat load study on the first wall of EAST device.

Complete Solution of Large Plastic Deformation of Square Plates Under Exponentially Decaying Pulse Loading

The rigid-plastic assumption has greatly simplified the theoretical analysis of dynamic plastic response of structures.Within this framework,a common tool is the modal technique using approximate independent yield criteria,which leads to upper-and lower-bound solutions,but usually with poor accuracy.In this paper,by utilizing the membrane factor method(MFM),the large-deflection dynamic plastic response of square plates subjected to exponentially decaying pulse loading is analyzed by taking both the transient response phase and the exact yield criterion into account.Based on the combination of saturation analysis(SA)and MFM,the complete solutions and regressive formulae of saturated deflection and saturated impulse are obtained.As the dynamic behavior of plates under rectangular pulse loading serves as a benchmark of pulse-equivalent techniques,the large plastic deformation of square plates under short-duration rectangular pulse is also analyzed in detail.Moreover,by comparing the SA results of pulse-loaded square plates with different boundary conditions,it is found that the saturated deflection and saturated impulse of the fully clamped and simply supported square plates both increase linearly with the pulse amplitude,and the slopes are approximately the same,so the conversion between the SA quantities of plates with different boundary conditions can be easily achieved.

Improving the Performance of DC Microgrids by Utilizing Adaptive Takagi-Sugeno Model Predictive Control

In naval direct current(DC)microgrids,pulsed power loads(PPLs)are becoming more prominent.A solar sys-tem,an energy storage system,and a pulse load coupled directly to the DC bus compose a DC microgrid in this study.For DC mi-crogrids equipped with sonar,radar,and other sensors,pulse load research is crucial.Due to high pulse loads,there is a possibility of severe power pulsation and voltage loss.The original contribution of this paper is that we are able to address the nonlinear problem by applying the Takagi-Sugeno(TS)model formulation for naval DC microgrids.Additionally,we provide a nonlinear power observer for estimating major disturbances affecting DC microgrids.To demonstrate the TS-potential,we examine three approaches for mitigating their negative effects:instantaneous power control(IPC)control,model predictive control(MPC)formulation,and TS-MPC approach with compensated PPLs.The results reveal that the TS-MPC approach with adjusted PPLs effectively shares power and regulates bus voltage under a variety of load conditions,while greatly decreasing detrimental impacts of the pulse load.Additionally,the comparison confirmed the efficiency of this technique.Index Terms-DC microgrids(MG),model predictive control(MPC),pulsed power loads(PPLs),nonlinear power observer,Takagi-Sugeno(TS)fuzzy model.

Dynamic State Estimation of Medium-voltage DC Integrated Power System with Pulse Load

The dynamic characteristic evaluation is an important prerequisite for safe and reliable operation of the mediumvoltage DC integrated power system(MIPS),and the dynamic state estimation is an essential technical approach to the evaluation.Unlike the electromechanical transient process in a traditional power system,periodic change in pulse load of the MIPS is an electromagnetic transient process.As the system state suddenly changes in the range of a smaller time constant,it is difficult to estimate the dynamic state due to periodic disturbance.This paper presents a dynamic mathematical model of the MIPS according to the network structure and control strategy,thereby overcoming the restrictions of algebraic variables on the estimation and developing a dynamic state estimation method based on the extended Kalman filter.Using the method of adding fictitious process noise,it is possible to solve the problem that the linearized algorithm of the MIPS model is less reliable when an abrupt change occurs in the pulse load.Therefore,the accuracy of the dynamic state estimation and the stability of the filter can be improved under the periodic disturbance of pulse load.The simulation and experimental results confirm that the proposed model and method are feasible and effective.