scholarly journals Drop of Pressure Behavior of Open-Cell Aluminum Foams at High Pressure Flow

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 603-621
Author(s):  
Manuel F. Azamar ◽  
Ignacio A. Figueroa ◽  
Gonzalo Gonzalez ◽  
Ismeli Alfonso

Open-cell aluminum foams were produced by the replication technique in three different pore sizes, ranging from 0.71 to 4.75 mm. The manufactured specimens were physically characterized, determining their porosity, relative density, pores per inch and interconnection windows density. A new experimental design is proposed in order to assess the drop of pressure behavior resulting from the injection of gasoline additive at increasing high pressure intervals, ranging from 200 to 25,000 psi, reproducing the tests at room temperature and 200 °C. The regime governing the flow through the investigated samples was determined as a function of flowrate and the foams physical properties. The structural capacity of open-cell Al foams to conduct highly pressurized flow was evaluated by means of compression tests. It was found that at room temperature, the drop of pressure behavior is strongly associated to physical parameters, whilst at 200 °C, dimensional and geometrical properties are negligible. In addition, in this investigation, it is presumed that the studied foams have the structural capacity to conduct fluids at critical conditions of pressure and temperature.

2010 ◽  
Vol 638-642 ◽  
pp. 1878-1883
Author(s):  
Ji Lin Yu ◽  
Er Heng Wang ◽  
Liu Wei Guo

The phenomenological constitutive framework for compressible elasto-plastic solids presented by Chen and Lu [1] is extended to the dynamic cases by assuming that the material parameter curves in the stress potential depend also on the strain rate. To check the applicability of the extended model, three types of dynamic experiments, i.e., uniaxial compression, lateral-constrained compression and side-constrained compression tests, are conducted for an open-cell aluminum foam at different strain rates. The first two types of dynamic tests are used as characteristic tests to determine the material parameter curves at different strain rates which are then used to construct the stress potential function in the model. The results show that the stress-strain curves under side-constrained compression predicted by the model are in agreement with those obtained experimentally.


Metals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana C. Pinto ◽  
Paula A.A.P. Marques ◽  
Matej Vesenjak ◽  
Romeu Vicente ◽  
Luís Godinho ◽  
...  

Hybrid structures with epoxy embedded in open-cell aluminum foam were developed by combining open-cell aluminum foam specimens with unreinforced and reinforced epoxy resin using graphene oxide. These new hybrid structures were fabricated by infiltrating an open-cell aluminum foam specimen with pure epoxy or mixtures of epoxy and graphene oxide, completely filling the pores. The effects of graphene oxide on the mechanical, thermal, and acoustic performance of epoxy/graphene oxide-based nanocomposites are reported. Mechanical compression analysis was conducted through quasi-static uniaxial compression tests at two loading rates (0.1 mm/s and 1 mm/s). Results show that the thermal stability and the sound absorption coefficient of the hybrid structures were improved by the incorporation of the graphene oxide within the epoxy matrix. However, the incorporation of the graphene oxide into the epoxy matrix can create voids inside the epoxy resin, leading to a decrease of the compressive strength of the hybrid structures, thus no significant increase in the energy absorption capability was observed.


2012 ◽  
Vol 504-506 ◽  
pp. 1219-1224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Quadrini ◽  
Denise Bellisario ◽  
Daniele Ferrari ◽  
Loredana Santo

The numerical simulation of the compression behavior of open-cell aluminum foams is discussed as a way to extract material property information for laser forming simulation. A bilinear isotropic model was implemented for the alloy base material whereas a parametric approach was used to build the finite element model of the foam structure. Compression tests were performed on commercial foams with different pore size and density, and the results of lower density foam were used for the model validation. Numerical results show a good agreement with experimental data in terms of foam deformation under compression and required loads.


Author(s):  
Robert W. Roberson

The use of cryo-techniques for the preparation of biological specimens in electron microscopy has led to superior preservation of ultrastructural detail. Although these techniques have obvious advantages, a critical limitation is that only 10-40 μm thick cells and tissue layers can be frozen without the formation of distorting ice crystals. However, thicker samples (600 μm) may be frozen well by rapid freezing under high-pressure (2,100 bar). To date, most work using cryo-techniques on fungi have been confined to examining small, thin-walled structures. High-pressure freezing and freeze substitution are used here to analysis pre-germination stages of specialized, sexual spores (teliospores) of the plant pathogenic fungus Gymnosporangium clavipes C & P.Dormant teliospores were incubated in drops of water at room temperature (25°C) to break dormancy and stimulate germination. Spores were collected at approximately 30 min intervals after hydration so that early cytological changes associated with spore germination could be monitored. Prior to high-pressure freezing, the samples were incubated for 5-10 min in a 20% dextran solution for added cryoprotection during freezing. Forty to 50 spores were placed in specimen cups and holders and immediately frozen at high pressure using the Balzers HPM 010 apparatus.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keishiro Yamashita ◽  
Kazuki Komatsu ◽  
Hiroyuki Kagi

An crystal-growth technique for single crystal x-ray structure analysis of high-pressure forms of hydrogen-bonded crystals is proposed. We used alcohol mixture (methanol: ethanol = 4:1 in volumetric ratio), which is a widely used pressure transmitting medium, inhibiting the nucleation and growth of unwanted crystals. In this paper, two kinds of single crystals which have not been obtained using a conventional experimental technique were obtained using this technique: ice VI at 1.99 GPa and MgCl<sub>2</sub>·7H<sub>2</sub>O at 2.50 GPa at room temperature. Here we first report the crystal structure of MgCl2·7H2O. This technique simultaneously meets the requirement of hydrostaticity for high-pressure experiments and has feasibility for further in-situ measurements.


Alloy Digest ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 37 (12) ◽  

Abstract RMI 6A1-4V ELI is an alpha-beta type of titanium-base alloy that can be strengthened by age hardening. In the mill-annealed condition it has a guaranteed minimum room-temperature yield strength of 120,000 psi and can be increased to as much as 160,000 psi by solution treating and aging. This alloy may be used for high-pressure cryogenic vessels down to 320 F. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, tensile properties, and bend strength as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, joining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: Ti-89. Producer or source: RMI Company.


Crystals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Akun Liang ◽  
Robin Turnbull ◽  
Enrico Bandiello ◽  
Ibraheem Yousef ◽  
Catalin Popescu ◽  
...  

We report the first high-pressure spectroscopy study on Zn(IO3)2 using synchrotron far-infrared radiation. Spectroscopy was conducted up to pressures of 17 GPa at room temperature. Twenty-five phonons were identified below 600 cm−1 for the initial monoclinic low-pressure polymorph of Zn(IO3)2. The pressure response of the modes with wavenumbers above 150 cm−1 has been characterized, with modes exhibiting non-linear responses and frequency discontinuities that have been proposed to be related to the existence of phase transitions. Analysis of the high-pressure spectra acquired on compression indicates that Zn(IO3)2 undergoes subtle phase transitions around 3 and 8 GPa, followed by a more drastic transition around 13 GPa.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenghao Chen ◽  
Bhaskar Paul ◽  
Sanjib Majumdar ◽  
Norihiko L. Okamoto ◽  
Kyosuke Kishida ◽  
...  

AbstractThe plastic deformation behavior of single crystals of two transition-metal diborides, ZrB2 and TiB2 with the AlB2 structure has been investigated at room temperature as a function of crystal orientation and specimen size by micropillar compression tests. Although plastic flow is not observed at all for their bulk single crystals at room temperature, plastic flow is successfully observed at room temperature by the operation of slip on {1$${\bar{1}}$$ 1 ¯ 00}<11$${\bar{2}}$$ 2 ¯ 3> in ZrB2 and by the operation of slip on {1$${\bar{1}}$$ 1 ¯ 00}<0001> and {1$${\bar{1}}$$ 1 ¯ 00}<11$${\bar{2}}$$ 2 ¯ 0> in TiB2. Critical resolve shear stress values at room temperature are very high, exceeding 1 GPa for all observed slip systems; 3.01 GPa for {1$${\bar{1}}$$ 1 ¯ 00}<11$${\bar{2}}$$ 2 ¯ 3> slip in ZrB2 and 1.72 GPa and 5.17 GPa, respectively for {1$${\bar{1}}$$ 1 ¯ 00}<0001> and {1$${\bar{1}}$$ 1 ¯ 00}<11$${\bar{2}}$$ 2 ¯ 0> slip in TiB2. The identified operative slip systems and their CRSS values are discussed in comparison with those identified in the corresponding bulk single crystals at high temperatures and those inferred from micro-hardness anisotropy in the early studies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
William Lafargue-Dit-Hauret ◽  
Daniel Braithwaite ◽  
Andrew D. Huxley ◽  
Tsuyoshi Kimura ◽  
Andres Saúl ◽  
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