This study focuses on a new and high-efficiency approach in a unified sense of accurately simulating strength-degrading effects for geomaterials,including non-symmetric hardening-to-softening effects in tension and co...This study focuses on a new and high-efficiency approach in a unified sense of accurately simulating strength-degrading effects for geomaterials,including non-symmetric hardening-to-softening effects in tension and compression as well as non-symmetric tensile and compressive stiffness-degrading effects during unloading.It is intended to bypass both modeling and numerical complexities involved in existing approaches.To this goal,new elastoplastic equations are established with new numerical techniques.With a decoupling technique of treating tension-compression asymmetry,the foregoing complex effects are automatically incorporated as inherent response features of the new elastoplastic equations,thus bypassing usual modeling complexities.A new numerical technique of renormalizing piecewise spline functions is introduced to resolve the central yet tough issue of obtaining accurate and unified expressions for the tensile and compressive strength functions,thus bypassing usual numerical complexities and uncertainties in treating numerous unknown parameters and multiple ad hoc criteria.As such,the new approach is not only of wide applicability for various geomaterials but also of high computational efficiency with no more than three adjustable parameters.Toward validating the efficacy of the new approach,numerical examples for granite,salt rock,and sandstone-concrete combined body as well as plain concrete,high-performance concrete,and ultrahigh-performance concrete are presented by comparing model predictions with multiple data sets for strength-degrading effects in tension and compression.展开更多
Glassy polymers are widely used in biomedical applications in a solvent environment,yet their long-term performance is governed by the competing effects of physical aging and solvent-induced plasticization.Here,we dev...Glassy polymers are widely used in biomedical applications in a solvent environment,yet their long-term performance is governed by the competing effects of physical aging and solvent-induced plasticization.Here,we develop a constitutive model that explicitly couples the solvent concentration,structural relaxation,and mechanical response.This framework is built on a multiplicative decomposition of deformation and an Eyring-type flow rule,with structural evolution described by an effective temperature.A generalized shift factor is introduced to quantify how the solvent concentration and effective temperature jointly affect the relaxation time,thereby integrating physical aging and plasticization.The model is subsequently applied to methacrylate(MA)-based copolymer networks immersed in phosphate-buffered saline for up to nine months.Simulations accurately capture key experimental features,including the strong softening of highly swellable networks,the partial recovery due to aging,and the mitigating role of hydrophobic crosslinking in reducing solvent uptake.While the current single-mode description cannot reproduce the full relaxation spectrum,it establishes an efficient framework for predicting the long-term mechanical performance under coupled environmental and mechanical loading.This study provides a constitutive description of solvent-swollen glassy polymers,offering mechanistic insight into the interplay between plasticization and aging.Beyond biomedical MA networks,this framework establishes a foundation for predicting the long-term performance of polymer glasses under coupled aqueous environmental and mechanical loading.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.12172149,12172151,and 12202378)the MOE Key Laboratory of Fututer Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies for High-End Equipment of China(No.FIMFYUST-2025B07)+1 种基金the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology of China(No.SL2023A04J01461)the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.G20221990122)。
文摘This study focuses on a new and high-efficiency approach in a unified sense of accurately simulating strength-degrading effects for geomaterials,including non-symmetric hardening-to-softening effects in tension and compression as well as non-symmetric tensile and compressive stiffness-degrading effects during unloading.It is intended to bypass both modeling and numerical complexities involved in existing approaches.To this goal,new elastoplastic equations are established with new numerical techniques.With a decoupling technique of treating tension-compression asymmetry,the foregoing complex effects are automatically incorporated as inherent response features of the new elastoplastic equations,thus bypassing usual modeling complexities.A new numerical technique of renormalizing piecewise spline functions is introduced to resolve the central yet tough issue of obtaining accurate and unified expressions for the tensile and compressive strength functions,thus bypassing usual numerical complexities and uncertainties in treating numerous unknown parameters and multiple ad hoc criteria.As such,the new approach is not only of wide applicability for various geomaterials but also of high computational efficiency with no more than three adjustable parameters.Toward validating the efficacy of the new approach,numerical examples for granite,salt rock,and sandstone-concrete combined body as well as plain concrete,high-performance concrete,and ultrahigh-performance concrete are presented by comparing model predictions with multiple data sets for strength-degrading effects in tension and compression.
基金the funding support from the Smart Medicine and Engineering Interdisciplinary Innovation Project of Ningbo University(No.ZHYG003)。
文摘Glassy polymers are widely used in biomedical applications in a solvent environment,yet their long-term performance is governed by the competing effects of physical aging and solvent-induced plasticization.Here,we develop a constitutive model that explicitly couples the solvent concentration,structural relaxation,and mechanical response.This framework is built on a multiplicative decomposition of deformation and an Eyring-type flow rule,with structural evolution described by an effective temperature.A generalized shift factor is introduced to quantify how the solvent concentration and effective temperature jointly affect the relaxation time,thereby integrating physical aging and plasticization.The model is subsequently applied to methacrylate(MA)-based copolymer networks immersed in phosphate-buffered saline for up to nine months.Simulations accurately capture key experimental features,including the strong softening of highly swellable networks,the partial recovery due to aging,and the mitigating role of hydrophobic crosslinking in reducing solvent uptake.While the current single-mode description cannot reproduce the full relaxation spectrum,it establishes an efficient framework for predicting the long-term mechanical performance under coupled environmental and mechanical loading.This study provides a constitutive description of solvent-swollen glassy polymers,offering mechanistic insight into the interplay between plasticization and aging.Beyond biomedical MA networks,this framework establishes a foundation for predicting the long-term performance of polymer glasses under coupled aqueous environmental and mechanical loading.
