A study on wrinkling characteristics and dynamic mechanical behavior of membrane

An eigenvalue method considering the membrane vibration of wrinkling out-of-plane deformation is introduced, and the stress distributing rule in membrane wrinkled area is analyzed. A dynamic analytical model of rectangular shear wrinkled membrane and its numerical analysis approach are also developed. Results indicate that the stress in wrinkled area is not uniform, i.e. it is larger in wrinkling wave peaks along wrinkles and two ends of wrinkle in vertical direction. Vibration modes of wrinkled membrane are strongly correlated with the wrinkling configurations. The rigidity is larger due to the heavier stress in the part of wrinkling wave peaks. Therefore, wave peaks are always located at the node lines of vibration mode. The vibration frequency obviously increases with the vibration of wave peaks.

Wrinkling analysis of square space membrane structure under corner tension forces

An analytical approach based on the bifurcation theory is presented,in which the wrinkles are treated as the local buckling phenomena of the elastic thin plate with little bending stiffness.The average wrinkling wavelength was determined by incorporating the stress field and the out-of-plane force equilibrium condition of the wrinkled membrane.The wrinkling amplitude was then obtained by associating the characteristics of wrinkling texture with the obtained wrinkling wavelength.Results reveal that the wrinkled pattern exhibits a noticeable difference when the tension load is changed gradually,and two wrinkling styles are identified.The first style occurs for symmetric and moderately asymmetric loading,and it is characterized by small,radial corner wrinkles;the second style occurs for strongly asymmetric loading and is characterized by a deep,large diagonal wrinkle.The analytical predictions on the wrinkling characteristics and the developed rules are validated against wrinkling experimental observations.

Review of dynamics and active control of large-scale space membrane antenna

Large-scale space membrane antennas have significant potential in satellite communication,space-based early warning,and Earth observation.Because of their large size and high flexibility,the dynamic analysis and control of membrane antenna are challenging.To maintain the working performance of the antenna,the pointing and surface accuracies must be strictly maintained.Therefore,the accurate dynamic modeling and effective active control of large-scale space membrane antennas have great theoretical significance and practical value,and have attracted considerable interest in recent years.This paper reviews the dynamics and active control of large-scale space membrane antennas.First,the development and status of large-scale space membrane antennas are summarized.Subsequently,the key problems in the dynamics and active control of large membrane antennas,including the dynamics of wrinkled membranes,large-amplitude nonlinear vibration,nonlinear model reduction,rigid-flexible-thermal coupling dynamic modeling,on-orbit modal parameter identification,active vibration control,and wave-based vibration control,are discussed in detail.Finally,the research outlook and future trends are presented.

Ion sieving in graphene oxide membranes via cationic control of interlayer spacing

With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,a collaborative study by the research groups led by Prof.Fang Haiping(方海平)from Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Prof.Wu Minghong(吴明红)from Shanghai Applied Radiation Institute。

Anatomy and physiology of cisternostomy

Cisternostomy is defined as opening the basal cisterns to atmospheric pressure. This technique helps to reduce the intracranial pressure in severe head trauma as well as other conditions when the so-called sudden ＂brain swelling＂ troubles the surgeon. We elaborated the surgical anatomy of this procedure as well as the proposed physiology of how cisternostomy works. This novel technique may change the current trends in neurosurgery.

Active vibration control of a large space telescope truss based on unilateral saturated cable actuators

Due to obvious advantages,such as light weight,easy folding and deployment and high accuracy of optical imaging,the membrane diffraction large space telescope has currently been one of the hot research topics.Because of the influence of external disturbance and attitude adjustment,the large space telescope will occur a certain degree of vibration inevitably,affecting the imaging accuracy of the space telescope for Earth.Thus,to satisfy the requirement of imaging accuracy,it is necessary for the space telescope to adopt appropriate vibration control methods.In this paper,the active vibration control of the large space telescope is studied using cables as active actuators.Considering that cables can work under tension but not under pression and the tensile capacity is limited,the unilateral and saturated characteristics of cable actuators are taken into account during control design in this paper.Firstly,the dynamic model of the membrane diffraction space telescope is established using the finite element method(FEM).Secondly,in combination with the linear quadratic regulator(LQR)and the bang-bang regulator,a piecewise cost function is used to design the active vibration control law.Next,the controllability criterion and the genetic algorithm(GA)are adopted to determine the optimal positions of cable actuators.Finally,the validity of the proposed control method is verified by numerical simulations.Simulation results indicate that the vibration of the space telescope can be suppressed effectively using the proposed control method,and the imaging requirements of the telescope may be realized using the least cable actuators,whose minimum quantity and position distribution are determined in this paper.