Mechanisms of Microstructural Rearrangement on Two-Dimensional Aggregates under Compressive Stress

2011 ◽  
Vol 312-315 ◽  
pp. 682-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarunya Promkotra

Two-dimensional (2D) colloidal aggregates of polystyrene microspheres 4 μm were experimentally modeled to study the rearranged mechanisms and compression behaviors at the air-liquid interface. The aggregated models occurred due to the interaction forces between particles. The combination of mechanical testing technique and the digital video microscopy had been developed to quantitatively analyze the compressive deformation of 2D aggregates. When the compressive forces were applied to the cluster, these forces were transmitted trough the aggregated network during compression. Solid-like mechanical properties of 2D aggregated cluster were examined. Deformation mechanisms occurred within the aggregated network which presented the particle rearrangements during yield. Elastic deformation had undergone the compressive elastic stress of the elastic loading. Rearrangement mechanisms found generally were rolling-hinge, sliding mechanisms and tensile failure for a small-scale deformation. Shear failure and stick-slip mechanisms caused a large-scale plastic deformation. However, across the yield point, the tensile failures were dominated. Rearrangement mechanisms of particles affected both elastic and plastic deformations.

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S294) ◽  
pp. 361-363
Author(s):  
A. V. Getling ◽  
O. S. Mazhorova ◽  
O. V. Shcheritsa

AbstractConvection is simulated numerically based on two-dimensional Boussinesq equations for a fluid layer with a specially chosen stratification such that the convective instability is much stronger in a thin subsurface sublayer than in the remaining part of the layer. The developing convective flow has a small-scale component superposed onto a basic large-scale roll flow.


2006 ◽  
Vol 128 (4) ◽  
pp. 681-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Samyn ◽  
W. Van Paepegem ◽  
J. S. Leendertz ◽  
A. Gerber ◽  
L. Van Schepdael ◽  
...  

Polymer composites are increasingly used as sliding materials for high-loaded bearings, however, their tribological characteristics are most commonly determined from small-scale laboratory tests. The static strength and dynamic coefficients of friction for polyester/polyester composite elements are presently studied on large-scale test equipment for determination of its bearing capacity and failure mechanisms under overload conditions. Original test samples have a diameter of 250 mm and thickness of 40 mm, corresponding to the practical implementation in the sliding surfaces of a ball-joint, and are tested at various scales for simulation of edge effects and repeatability of test results. Static tests reveal complete elastic recovery after loading to 120 MPa, plastic deformation after loading at 150 MPa and overload at 200 MPa. This makes present composite favorable for use under high loads, compared to, e.g., glass-fibre reinforced materials. Sliding tests indicate stick-slip for pure bulk composites and more stable sliding when PTFE lubricants are added. Dynamic overload occurs above 120 MPa due to an expansion of the nonconstrained top surface. A molybdenum-disulphide coating on the steel counterface is an effective lubricant for lower dynamic friction, as it favorably impregnates the composite sliding surface, while it is not effective at high loads as the coating is removed after sliding and high initial static friction is observed. Also a zinc phosphate thermoplastic coating cannot be applied to the counterface as it adheres strongly to the composite surface with consequently high initial friction and coating wear. Most stable sliding is observed against steel counterfaces, with progressive formation of a lubricating transfer film at higher loads due to exposure of PTFE lubricant. Composite wear mechanisms are mainly governed by thermal degradation of the thermosetting matrix (max. 162°C) with shear and particle detachment by the brittle nature of polyester rather than plastic deformation. The formation of a sliding film protects against fiber failure up to 150 MPa, while overload results in interlaminar shear, debonding, and ductile fiber pull-out.


2019 ◽  
Vol 867 ◽  
pp. 146-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Richard ◽  
A. Duran ◽  
B. Fabrèges

We derive a two-dimensional depth-averaged model for coastal waves with both dispersive and dissipative effects. A tensor quantity called enstrophy models the subdepth large-scale turbulence, including its anisotropic character, and is a source of vorticity of the average flow. The small-scale turbulence is modelled through a turbulent-viscosity hypothesis. This fully nonlinear model has equivalent dispersive properties to the Green–Naghdi equations and is treated, both for the optimization of these properties and for the numerical resolution, with the same techniques which are used for the Green–Naghdi system. The model equations are solved with a discontinuous Galerkin discretization based on a decoupling between the hyperbolic and non-hydrostatic parts of the system. The predictions of the model are compared to experimental data in a wide range of physical conditions. Simulations were run in one-dimensional and two-dimensional cases, including run-up and run-down on beaches, non-trivial topographies, wave trains over a bar or propagation around an island or a reef. A very good agreement is reached in every cases, validating the predictive empirical laws for the parameters of the model. These comparisons confirm the efficiency of the present strategy, highlighting the enstrophy as a robust and reliable tool to describe wave breaking even in a two-dimensional context. Compared with existing depth-averaged models, this approach is numerically robust and adds more physical effects without significant increase in numerical complexity.


2000 ◽  
Vol 407 ◽  
pp. 105-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
JACQUES VANNESTE

The effect of a small-scale topography on large-scale, small-amplitude oceanic motion is analysed using a two-dimensional quasi-geostrophic model that includes free-surface and β effects, Ekman friction and viscous (or turbulent) dissipation. The topography is two-dimensional and periodic; its slope is assumed to be much larger than the ratio of the ocean depth to the Earth's radius. An averaged equation of motion is derived for flows with spatial scales that are much larger than the scale of the topography and either (i) much larger than or (ii) comparable to the radius of deformation. Compared to the standard quasi-geostrophic equation, this averaged equation contains an additional dissipative term that results from the interaction between topography and dissipation. In case (i) this term simply represents an additional Ekman friction, whereas in case (ii) it is given by an integral over the history of the large-scale flow. The properties of the additional term are studied in detail. For case (i) in particular, numerical calculations are employed to analyse the dependence of the additional Ekman friction on the structure of the topography and on the strength of the original dissipation mechanisms.


Author(s):  
MOTOAKI KIMURA ◽  
MASAHIRO TAKEI ◽  
YOSHIFURU SAITO ◽  
KIYOSHI HORII

This paper describes the application of discrete wavelet transforms to the analysis of condensation jets in order to clarify the associated fluid and heat transfer phenomena. An experimentally-obtained, two-dimensional image of the condensation particle density around the jet was decomposed into 7 levels of resolution with their respective wavelengths. Based on the known physical characteristics of turbulent flow around the jet, levels 0 and 1 were shown to represent the large-scale components of the condensation particle density and the higher levels represent the small-scale components. From the wavelet-analyzed images, the width of the condensation zone was obtained and this compared well with the width inferred from temperature measurements. Thus, the method was verified and also provided data not available experimentally.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianjie Hao ◽  
Shaohua Wang ◽  
Duoxiang Jin ◽  
Bo Ren ◽  
Xiangyang Zhang ◽  
...  

The process of crack propagation and tunnel failure is affected by the cross-sectional geometry of an underground tunnel. In order to quantify the effect of section shape on the process of crack propagation in deep tunnels under high ground stress conditions, a total of four physical models with two cross-sectional shapes and twelve stress levels were designed and several large-scale physical model tests were conducted. The results indicated that, when the vertical stress is 4.94 MPa, the length and depth of the cracks generated in the rock surrounding the horseshoe tunnel are about eight times that around a circular tunnel. The position where the circumferential displacement of the horseshoe tunnel begins to be stable is about two, to two and a half, times that around a circular tunnel. After the deep chamber was excavated, continuous spalling was found to occur at the foot of the horseshoe tunnel and microcracks in the surrounding rock were initially generated from the foot of the side wall and then developed upwards to form a conjugate sliding shape to the foot of the arch roof, where the cracks finally coalesced. Discontinuous spalling occurred at the midheight of the side wall of the circular tunnel after excavation, and microcracks in the surrounding rock were initially generated from the midheight of the side wall and then extended concentrically to greater depth in the rock mass surrounding the tunnel. Tensile failure mainly occurred on the surface of the side wall: shear failure mainly appeared in the surrounding rock.


2015 ◽  
Vol 786 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K. Newton

The paper by Dritschel et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 783, 2015, pp. 1–22) describes the long-time behaviour of inviscid two-dimensional fluid dynamics on the surface of a sphere. At issue is whether the flow settles down to an equilibrium or whether, for generic (random) initial conditions, the long-time solution is periodic, quasi-periodic or chaotic. While it might be surprising that this issue is not settled in the literature, it is important to keep in mind that the Euler equations form a dissipationless Hamiltonian system, hence the set of equations only redistributes the initial vorticity, generating smaller and smaller scales, while keeping kinetic energy, angular impulse and an infinite family of vorticity moments (Casimirs) intact. While special solutions that never settle down to an equilibrium state can be constructed using point vortices, vortex patches and other distributions, the fate of random initial conditions is a trickier problem. Previous statistical theories indicate that the long-time state should be a stationary large-scale distribution of vorticity. By carrying out careful numerical simulations using two different methods, the authors make a compelling case that the generic long-time state resembles a large-scale oscillating quadrupolar vorticity field, surrounded by persistent small-scale vortices. While numerical simulations can never conclusively settle this issue, the results might help guide future theories that seek to prove the existence of such an interesting dynamical long-time state.


2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-67
Author(s):  
A.Zh. Turmukhambetov ◽  
◽  
S.B. Otegenova ◽  
K.A. Aitmanova ◽  

The paper analyzes the results of a theoretical study of quasi-two-dimensional turbulence, two-dimensional equations of motion of which contain additional terms. The regularities of the dynamic interaction of vortex structures in shear turbulent flows of a viscous liquid are established. Based on the model of quasi-twodimensional turbulence, numerical values of the spatial scales of intermittency are determined as an alternation of large-scale and small-scale pulsations of dynamic characteristics. The experimentally observed alternation of vortex structures and the idea of their self-organization form the basis of the assumption of the existence of a geometric parameter determined by the size of the vortex core and the distance between their centers. Therefore, the main attention is paid to the theoretical calculation of the minimum spatial scales of the intermittency of vortex clusters. As a simplification, the vortex pairs are located in a reference frame, relative to which the centers of the vortices are stationary. Thus, the kinematic effect of the transfer of one vortex into the field of another is excluded from consideration. The symmetric and unsymmetric interactions of vortices, taking into account the one-sided and opposite directions of their rotation, are considered as realizable cases. A successful attempt is made to study the influence of the internal structure of vortex clusters on the numerical values of the minimum intermittency scales. The obtained results are satisfactorily confirmed by known theoretical and experimental data. Consequently, they can be used in all practical applications, without exception, where the structure of turbulence is taken into account, as well as for improving and expanding existing semi-empirical theories.


Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Yang ◽  
Yikun Wei ◽  
Zuchao Zhu ◽  
Huashu Dou ◽  
Yuehong Qian

Statistics of heat transfer in two-dimensional (2D) turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard (RB) convection for Pr=6,20,100 and 106 are investigated using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Our results reveal that the large scale circulation is gradually broken up into small scale structures plumes with the increase of Pr, the large scale circulation disappears with increasing Pr, and a great deal of smaller thermal plumes vertically rise and fall from the bottom to top walls. It is further indicated that vertical motion of various plumes gradually plays main role with increasing Pr. In addition, our analysis also shows that the thermal dissipation is distributed mainly in the position of high temperature gradient, the thermal dissipation rate εθ already increasingly plays a dominant position in the thermal transport, εu can have no effect with increase of Pr. The kinematic viscosity dissipation rate and the thermal dissipation rate gradually decrease with increasing Pr. The energy spectrum significantly decreases with the increase of Pr. A scope of linear scaling arises in the second order velocity structure functions, the temperature structure function and mixed structure function(temperature-velocity). The value of linear scaling and the 2nd-order velocity decrease with increasing Pr, which is qualitatively consistent with the theoretical predictions.


1984 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Ito ◽  
Yoshito Tsuchiya

This paper presents a scale-model relationship for the similarity between large and small scale-models in two-dimensional equilibrium beach profiles. Taking large scale-models using large scale equipment as prototypes, the experimental scale of a medium-sized model was gradually varied keeping the grain size ratio of model to prototype constant. A similarity-comparison between large and small scale beach profiles is made by considering the degree of experimental errors. Judgement results are graphically shown, and a scale-model relationship is proposed. It is found that the scale-model relationship proposed agrees with the ones derived from the empirical formulae expressing the properties of beach profiles. Additionally, the applicability of this scale-model relationship to the reproduction test of natural beaches is examined.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document