scholarly journals To estimate the curing time of epoxy oligomer during nonisothermal polymerization process

Author(s):  
S. V. Rusakov ◽  
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V. G. Gilev ◽  

The results of an experimental study and numerical modeling of the curing process of an epoxy binder under conditions of non-isothermal polymerization are presented. Object of research: twocomponent composition of "cold curing": epoxy resin L and hardener EPH 161, certified as a binder for aerospace composite materials. The measurements were performed on a Physica MCR 501 rotary rheometer in the oscillation mode under conditions of a programmable temperature change. The Cauchy problem for an ordinary differential equation describing the behavior of an oligomer during the curing process was used as the main model. The values of the material parameters necessary for performing the calculation operations were obtained by the rheological method, analyzing the dependence of the binder viscosity on the polymerization time and the rate of temperature change. Estimates of the model parameters obtained as a result of processing full-scale experiments aregiven. The effective values of the kinetic parameters are determined, at which the calculated yield loss time is in good agreement with the experimental one.

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 843-855 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Kettleborough ◽  
B. B. B. Booth ◽  
P. A. Stott ◽  
M. R. Allen

Abstract A method for estimating uncertainty in future climate change is discussed in detail and applied to predictions of global mean temperature change. The method uses optimal fingerprinting to make estimates of uncertainty in model simulations of twentieth-century warming. These estimates are then projected forward in time using a linear, compact relationship between twentieth-century warming and twenty-first-century warming. This relationship is established from a large ensemble of energy balance models. By varying the energy balance model parameters an estimate is made of the error associated with using the linear relationship in forecasts of twentieth-century global mean temperature. Including this error has very little impact on the forecasts. There is a 50% chance that the global mean temperature change between 1995 and 2035 will be greater than 1.5 K for the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) A1FI scenario. Under SRES B2 the same threshold is not exceeded until 2055. These results should be relatively robust to model developments for a given radiative forcing history.


Author(s):  
Mohammad-Reza Ashory ◽  
Farhad Talebi ◽  
Heydar R Ghadikolaei ◽  
Morad Karimpour

This study investigated the vibrational behaviour of a rotating two-blade propeller at different rotational speeds by using self-tracking laser Doppler vibrometry. Given that a self-tracking method necessitates the accurate adjustment of test setups to reduce measurement errors, a test table with sufficient rigidity was designed and built to enable the adjustment and repair of test components. The results of the self-tracking test on the rotating propeller indicated an increase in natural frequency and a decrease in the amplitude of normalized mode shapes as rotational speed increases. To assess the test results, a numerical model created in ABAQUS was used. The model parameters were tuned in such a way that the natural frequency and associated mode shapes were in good agreement with those derived using a hammer test on a stationary propeller. The mode shapes obtained from the hammer test and the numerical (ABAQUS) modelling were compared using the modal assurance criterion. The examination indicated a strong resemblance between the hammer test results and the numerical findings. Hence, the model can be employed to determine the other mechanical properties of two-blade propellers in test scenarios.


2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (21) ◽  
pp. 1750114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuharu Bamba ◽  
Sergei D. Odintsov ◽  
Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We investigate the inflationary realization in the context of unimodular F(T) gravity, which is based on the F(T) modification of teleparallel gravity, in which one imposes the unimodular condition through the use of Lagrange multipliers. We develop the general reconstruction procedure of the F(T) form that can give rise to a given scale-factor evolution, and then we apply it in the inflationary regime. We extract the Hubble slow-roll parameters that allow us to calculate various inflation-related observables, such as the scalar spectral index and its running, the tensor-to-scalar ratio, and the tensor spectral index. Then, we examine the particular cases of de Sitter and power-law inflation, of Starobinsky inflation, as well as inflation in a specific model of unimodular F(T) gravity. As we show, in all cases the predictions of our scenarios are in a very good agreement with Planck observational data. Finally, inflation in unimodular F(T) gravity has the additional advantage that it always allows for a graceful exit for specific regions of the model parameters.


Author(s):  
Zengle Li ◽  
Bin Zhi ◽  
Enlong Liu

In response to the major challenges faced by China’s transition to green low-carbon energy under the dual-carbon goal, the use of energy Internet cross-boundary thinking will help to develop research on the integration of renewable clean energy and buildings. Energy piles are a new building-energy-saving technology that uses geothermal energy in the shallow soil of the Earth’s surface as a source of cold (heat) to achieve heating in winter and cooling in summer. It is a complex thermomechanical working process that changes the temperature of the rock and soil around the pile, and the temperature change significantly influences the mechanical properties of natural loess. Although the soil temperature can be easily and quickly obtained by using sensors connected to the Internet of Things, the mechanical properties of natural loess will change greatly under the influence of temperature. To explore the influence of temperature on the stress–strain relationship of structural loess, the undrained triaxial consolidation tests were carried out under different temperatures (5, 20, 50 and 70∘C) and different confining pressures (50, 100, 200 and 400[Formula: see text]kPa), and a binary-medium model was introduced to simulate the stress–strain relationship. By introducing the damage rate under temperature change conditions, a binary-medium model of structural loess under variable temperature conditions was established, and the calculation method of the model parameters was proposed. Finally, the calculated results were compared with the test results. The calculation results showed that the established model has good applicability.


2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Jougnot ◽  
A. Revil

Abstract. The parameters used to describe the electrical conductivity of a porous material can be used to describe also its thermal conductivity. A new relationship is developed to connect the thermal conductivity of an unsaturated porous material to the thermal conductivity of the different phases of the composite, and two electrical parameters called the first and second Archie's exponents. A good agreement is obtained between the new model and thermal conductivity measurements performed using packs of glass beads and core samples of the Callovo-Oxfordian clay-rocks at different saturations of the water phase. We showed that the three model parameters optimised to fit the new model against experimental data (namely the thermal conductivity of the solid phase and the two Archie's exponents) are consistent with independent estimates. We also observed that the anisotropy of the effective thermal conductivity of the Callovo-Oxfordian clay-rock was mainly due to the anisotropy of the thermal conductivity of the solid phase.


1998 ◽  
Vol 507 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zeman ◽  
R.A.C.M.M. Van Swaaij ◽  
E. Schroten ◽  
L.L.A. Vosteen ◽  
J.W. Metselaar

ABSTRACTA calibration procedure for determining the model input parameters of standard a-Si:H layers, which comprise a single junction a-Si:H solar cell, is presented. The calibration procedure consists of: i) deposition of the separate layers, ii) measurement of the material properties, iii) fitting the model parameters to match the measured properties, iv) simulation of test devices and comparison with experimental results. The inverse modeling procedure was used to extract values of the most influential model parameters by fitting the simulated material properties to the measured ones. In case of doped layers the extracted values of the characteristic energies of exponentially decaying tail states are much higher than the values reported in literature. Using the extracted values of model parameters a good agreement between the measured and calculated characteristics of a reference solar cell was reached. The presented procedure could not solve directly an important issue concerning a value of the mobility gap in a-Si:H alloys.


1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Meijers ◽  
F. Roode

A general description of creep and plastic deformation based on overlay models is presented. This includes the description of time effects during plastic deformation at room temperature. A detailed procedure to obtain the model parameters is also discussed. The description has been evaluated for a large number of uniaxial and biaxial load histories on thin walled tubes. The materials involved are a 2 1/4 Cr-1 Mo steel stabilized with Niobium (WN 1.6770) and a 304 stainless steel (WN 1.4948). The theoretical predictions of the plastic deformations are found to be sufficiently accurate. The evaluation of the phenomenological description for creep shows a fairly good agreement with the real creep deformation process. Special attention requires the description of softening due to microstructural changes.


1976 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Blevins ◽  
T. E. Burton

A semi-empirical, dynamic model for investigating the fluid forces induced on a bluff cylinder by vortex shedding is developed using random vibration theory. The model includes both spanwise correlation effects and the amplitude dependence of the correlated vortex forces. Model parameters are determined by experimental data. The results are then applied to determine the forces exerted on elastic cylinders at resonance with vortex shedding. The predictions are in good agreement with experimental data.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Pérez Mañes ◽  
Victor Hugo Sánchez Espinoza ◽  
Sergio Chiva Vicent ◽  
Michael Böttcher ◽  
Robert Stieglitz

This paper deals with the validation of the two-phase flow models of the CFD code NEPTUNEC-CFD using experimental data provided by the OECD BWR BFBT and PSBT Benchmark. Since the two-phase models of CFD codes are extensively being improved, the validation is a key step for the acceptability of such codes. The validation work is performed in the frame of the European NURISP Project and it was focused on the steady state and transient void fraction tests. The influence of different NEPTUNE-CFD model parameters on the void fraction prediction is investigated and discussed in detail. Due to the coupling of heat conduction solver SYRTHES with NEPTUNE-CFD, the description of the coupled fluid dynamics and heat transfer between the fuel rod and the fluid is improved significantly. The averaged void fraction predicted by NEPTUNE-CFD for selected PSBT and BFBT tests is in good agreement with the experimental data. Finally, areas for future improvements of the NEPTUNE-CFD code were identified, too.


1979 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-585 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Edelsten ◽  
A. J. Corrall

SUMMARYRegression models were constructed to predict the yields and digestibilities of herbage cut in different sequences of harvests.The yield model used a seasonal production curve modified by the effects of defoliation. Values for the model parameters were obtained by fitting the model to experimental data using a non-linear regression procedure. When these parameters were used, to predict treatment effects in another series of experimental data, good agreement was obtained. The digestibility model incorporated the effect on digestibility time of year, regrowth time and yield.Using the models to interpolate between the results of cutting experiments, annual yields were shown to increase with the date of first cut and also with the interval between subsequent cuts, whereas the average digestibility of the harvested material ecreased with the date of first cut and with the subsequent cutting interval. Finally, a procedure was devised for combining the two models in order to find an optimum cutting strategy for a hypothetical animal production system.


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