Li Sheng Liu

Experimental and Numerical Researches of Dynamic Failure of a High Strength Alumina/Boride Ceramic Composite

The dynamic compressive behavior of Al2O3 (10% vol.) / TiB2 ceramic composite had been tested by using a split Hopkinson pressure bar in this paper. The results show that the main failure modes of the ceramic composite include crushed failure and split fracture along the loading direction. The former is the typical compressive failure of brittle materials. The later is tensile failure along the flaws produced during the composite manufacturing. The numerical simulation was also used to study the effect of the diameter/length ratio of the samples on the experimental results. The effect of the deformation in the bars’ ends, which contacted with the samples, was also studied in the numerical models.

Numerical investigation on anti-penetration behavior of ceramic/metal target under ballistic impact

In the paper, we used the LS-DYNA FE code to simulate the bullet penetration against the target plate with different ceramic-steel ratio of thickness. The main stages of the bullet penetration and damage contours of the target were studied by analyzing the residual velocity-time curves. We also studied energy absorption of the ceramic/metal target. Considering curves of residual velocity-time, we reckon the process of penetration contains four stages. Ceramic performed good resistance before the formation of damage cone of ceramic. But after the damage cone formed, the anti-penetration behavior kept declining. When the bullet started to penetrate the layer of metal, the anti-penetration behavior of target rose slightly. Compared with thickness ratio of 0.4 and 0.6, ceramic with 0.2 absorbed more energy and works longer. Of several different thicknesses, layers of ceramic and steel were studied. Steel per cm absorbed more energy than ceramic per cm.

The Optimization of Propagation Characteristic of Elastic Wave in FGM

The reflected coefficient of functionally graded layer to waves is very important as the design of impact-resistant FGMs. In the paper, the Optimization problem of propagation characteristic of elastic wave in FGM has been investigated. The relation between the top layer’s stress and displacement and the bottom layer’s is deduced from elastic propagation equation as the incident wave is a plane and harmonic elastic stress wave, then the reflected coefficient of gradient layer is obtained, and the reflected coefficient is selected as object function of optimization. The thickness of each layer is selected as optimization design parameter. The conjugate gradient method is used to get the optimal results about gradient layers’ thickness.

Creep Response of Ceramic/Metal Functionally Graded Thermal Barrier Coating

The functionally graded thermal barrier coating (TBC) serves in high temperature and/or high temperature gradient environment for a long time. According to the experimental and theoretical research, in the metal substrate and the metal-rich interlayer creep deformation will appear under high temperature environment. In order to design and optimize the compositional distribution of FGM, it is necessary to analyze the stress and strain responses taking into account the creep phenomenon of the materials. In this article, the thermo-mechanical responses of ceramic/metal functionally graded TBC in work environment are analyzed by a finite element method. The creep phenomenon of the metal and the interlayers are taken into account. The numerical results indicate that the creep behavior of all interlayers, even for the ceramic-rich interlayer, cannot be neglected in analysis. It is suggested that the creep phenomenon of the material is important in the functionally graded TBC systems.

Bond Based Peridynamic Formulation for Thermoelectric Materials

Modeling of heat and electrical current flow simultaneously in thermoelectric convertor using classical theories do not consider the influence of defects in the material. This is because traditional methods are developed based on partial differential equations (PDEs) and lead to infinite fluxes and stress fields at the crack tips. The usual way of solving such PDEs is by using numerical technique, like Finite Element Method (FEM). Although FEM is robust and versatile, it is not suitable to model evolving discontinuities since discontinuous fields are mathematically singular at the crack tip and required an external criterion for the prediction of crack growth. In this paper, we follow the concept of peridynamic (PD) theory to overcome the shortcomings above. Therefore, the main aim of this paper is to develop the peridynamic equations for the generalized Fourier’s and Ohm’s laws. Furthermore, we derived the peridynamic equations for the conservation of energy and charge for the coupled thermoelectric phenomena.

Numerical Simulation on the Whole Co-Extrusion Process of Tread Rubber

The Phan-Thinen and Tanner (PTT) model was used to describe the co-extrusion behavior of tread rubber which is made up of two components. To investigate the effects of upper and lower channels on simulation results, two kinds of Finite Element (FE) models were established. One of them contained the upper and lower channels, while another did not. Comparison between the computational results and corresponding test data illustrates that the difference of these two models is obvious, which suggests that the consideration of upper and lower channels play an important role in analysis on polymer’s co-extrusion process. Besides, we also analyzed the effects of wall slip coefficients on co-extrusion products. The results show that the decreasing of wall slip coefficients can reduce the extrusion swell phenomenon effectively, but it may bring out the distorting of the corner parts of co-extrusion section shape. Therefore, various factors need to be comprehensive taken into account in the selection of wall slip coefficients.

Slope Stability Analysis by Peridynamic Theory

Peridynamic simulations have been carried out to perform the slope stability analysis. A slope is first modelled with discretized particles in 2D. Then the non-ordinary state-based Peridynamic model is utilized. In order to obtain a more realistic behavior of the soil, Drucker-Prager constitutive model is used to describe the mechanic properties of soil. Results show great agreements with the FEM results, while provides the dynamic slide progress in the post-failure process.

Molecular Dynamics Study on Shear Property of Single-Crystal Bi2Te3

The shear property of the thermoelectric material Bi2Te3 is inextricably linked with its layer structure. By the molecular dynamics method, the mechanism of shearing deformation was studied in this paper. In the simulation, cubic single-crystal simulation cells with different layer directions inside were adopted, ensuring that the c axis of crystal lattice can be along, across and 45o deviated from the shear stress. Compared with all the calculation models, the results show that when the shear stress increases, slip occurs along the Te1-Te1 adjacent layers which are connected by the weak van der Waals bonding, and ultimately leads to structural fracture. Furthermore, size effect and loading modes can also impact the behavior of shearing deformation, however, in very different ways. Future efforts should be focused on the influence of the creation and motion of defects during the deformation as well as temperature effect and strain rate effect.

Effect of particle shapes on effective strain gradient of SiC particle reinforced aluminum composites

The stress increments depend not only on the plastic strain but also on the gradient of plastic strain, when the characteristic length scale associated with non-uniform plastic deformation is on the order of microns. In the present research, the Taylor-based nonlocal theory of plasticity (TNT plasticity), with considering both geometrically necessary dislocations and statistically stored dislocations, is applied to investigated the effect of particle shapes on the strain gradient and mechanical properties of SiC particle reinforced aluminum composites (SiC/Al composites). Based on this theory, a two-dimensional axial symmetry cell model is built in the ABAQUS finite element code through its USER-ELEMENT (UEL) interface. Some comparisons with the classical plastic theory demonstrate that the effective stress predicted by TNT plasticity is obviously higher than that predicted by classical plastic theory. The results also demonstrate that the irregular particles cause higher effective gradient strain which is attributed to the fact that angular shape particles give more geometrically.

A Study on Propagation Characteristic of One-dimensional Stress Wave in Functionally Graded Armor Composites

The development of Functionally Graded Materials (FGM) for energy-absorbing applications requires understanding of stress wave propagation in these structures in order to optimize their resistance to failure. One-dimensional stress wave in FGM composites under elastic and plastic wave loading have been investigated. The stress distributions through the thickness and stress status have been analyzed and some comparisons have been done with the materials of sharp interfaces (two-layered material). The results demonstrate that the gradient structure design greatly decreases the severity of the stress concentrations at the interfaces and there are no clear differences in stress distribution in FGM composites under elastic and plastic wave loading.