Superior strength and high-temperature performance make γ-TiAl vital for lightweight aero-engines. However, its inherent brittleness poses machining problems. This study employed Elliptical Ultrasonic Vibration Milli...Superior strength and high-temperature performance make γ-TiAl vital for lightweight aero-engines. However, its inherent brittleness poses machining problems. This study employed Elliptical Ultrasonic Vibration Milling (EUVM) to address these problems. Considering the influence of machining parameters on vibration patterns of EUVM, a separation time model was established to analyze the vibration evolutionary process, thereby instructing the cutting mechanism. On this basis, deep discussions regarding chip formation, cutting force, edge breakage, and subsurface layer deformation were conducted for EUVM and Conventional Milling (CM). Chip morphology showed the chip formation was rooted in the periodic brittle fracture. Local dimples proved that the thermal effect of high-speed cutting improved the plasticity of γ-TiAl. EUVM achieved a maximum 18.17% reduction in cutting force compared with CM. The force variation mechanism differed with changes in the cutting speed or the vibration amplitude, and its correlation with thermal softening, strain hardening, and vibratory cutting effects was analyzed. EUVM attained desirable edge breakage by achieving smaller fracture lengths. The fracture mechanisms of different phases were distinct, causing a surge in edge fracture size of γ-TiAl under microstructural differences. In terms of subsurface deformation, EUVM also showed strengthening effects. Noteworthy, the lamellar deformation patterns under the cutting removal state differed from the quasi-static, which was categorized by the orientation angles. Additionally, the electron backscattering diffraction provided details of the influence of microstructural difference on the orientation and the deformation of grains in the subsurface layer. The results demonstrate that EUVM is a promising machining method for γ-TiAl and guide further research and development of EUVM γ-TiAl.展开更多
The oil and gas stored in deep and ultra-deep carbonate reservoirs is the focus of future exploration and development.Conical PDC(Polycrystalline Diamond Compact)cutter,which is a new kind of PDC cutter,can significan...The oil and gas stored in deep and ultra-deep carbonate reservoirs is the focus of future exploration and development.Conical PDC(Polycrystalline Diamond Compact)cutter,which is a new kind of PDC cutter,can significantly improve the rate of penetration(ROP)and extend PDC bit life in hard and abrasive formations.However,the breakage characteristics and failure mode of the conical PDC cutter cutting carbonate rock is still masked.In this paper,a series of single-cutter cutting tests were carried out with the conical and conventional PDC cutters.The cutting force,rock-breaking process,surface morphology of cutting grooves and cuttings characteristic were analyzed.Based on the derived formula of the brittle fracture index,the failure model of carbonate rock was quantitatively analyzed under the action of conical and conventional cutter.The results show that the average cutting force of the conical cutter is less than that of the conventional cutter,which means greater stability of the cutting process using the conical cutter.Carbonate rock with calcite as the main component tends to generate blocky rock debris by conical cutter.The height of the cuttings generated by the conical cutter is 0.5 mm higher than that generated by the conventional cutter.The conical cutter exhibits enhanced penetration capabilities within carbonate rock.The accumulation of rock debris in front of the conventional cutter is obvious.Whereas,the conical cutter facilitates the cuttings transport,thereby alleviating drilling stickiness slip.At different cutting depths,the conical cutter consistently causes asymmetric jagged brittle tensile fracture zones on both sides of the cutting groove.Calculations based on the brittle fracture index demonstrate that the brittle fracture index of the conical cutter generally doubles that of the conventional cutter.For carbonate rock,the conical cutter displays superior utilization of brittle fracture abilities.The research findings of this work offer insights into the breakage process and failure mode of carbonate rock by the conical cutter.展开更多
Extreme weather events pose an ever-greater threat to people,infrastructure,and nature.Forest ecosystems are highly sensitive to extreme cold events that can disrupt ecosystem functions,especially in montane regions.I...Extreme weather events pose an ever-greater threat to people,infrastructure,and nature.Forest ecosystems are highly sensitive to extreme cold events that can disrupt ecosystem functions,especially in montane regions.Ice storms can be particularly destructive,with rapid ice accretion causing tree branches to break,even snapping or uprooting entire trees.In March 2022,the Shennongjia forest in central China experienced severe ice storm conditions that severely damaged over 230,300ha.We utilized this opportunity to assess the vulnerability of different tree types(coniferous,deciduous,and evergreen broad-leaved)and stand compositions to damage resulting from ice glaze along an elevation gradient from 1,200 to 2,400m a.s.l.Among the 7,144 trees surveyed,10.1%suffered some extent of damage,which was most prolific in the middle elevation zone.While 96.8%of all damage occurred to deciduous broadleaved trees that dominated the forest community,the most severe damage(uprooting and lower trunk breakage)occurred to coniferous trees.The extent and severity of tree damage were moderated by forest composition,with secondary effects of forest structure and slope.Abiotic factors predominantly affected coniferous trees.We emphasize that more research and monitoring are needed to better understand the full impact of extreme weather events on forests,especially as the frequency and intensity of these events increases due to climate change.展开更多
Geothermal energy is a clean and ecologically friendly energy source with significant potential. The temperature variations between the Polycrystalline Diamond Compact (PDC) cutter and the rock of the reservoir are th...Geothermal energy is a clean and ecologically friendly energy source with significant potential. The temperature variations between the Polycrystalline Diamond Compact (PDC) cutter and the rock of the reservoir are the key factors affecting the cutting performance when drilling through formations with thermally damaged rock. To better investigate the temperature rise, a series of rock samples treated at high temperatures (9–300℃) were broken with a PDC cutter. The performance of the PDC cutter on these samples was studied using cutting force sensors, high-speed photography, and the thermal infrared imager. Based on the experimental data, a new cutting force evaluation parameter, η, is suggested. The link between the cutting force and rock properties is discussed in detail. The present results indicate that the average cutting force of high-temperature-treated granite is 3–5 times that of the thermally damaged sandstone. Furthermore, a critical temperature for thermal damage has been identified in granite cutting at 100–200℃ and in sandstone at 100℃. This corresponds to the temperature at which interlayer water loss and thermal crack closure occur. The results also indicate that when the treatment temperature exceeds the critical threshold, both the cutting force and temperature rise exhibit more significant changes with increasing temperature. Additionally, the maximum temperature of the PDC cutter during granite cutting can reach 47.6 ℃, which is almost 34℃ higher than that of sandstone. Regarding debris size, granite is much less sensitive to the treatment temperature, showing only slight changes in debris size compared to sandstone as the treatment temperature increases. The increasing cutter-rock interface area can significantly reduce frictional heat generation while increasing the cutting force and enhancing the temperature rise. The parameter valuation of the newly defined parameter η, which is related to frictional heating, shows that the capacity of the thermal generation and the heat transfer change as the temperature rises at the cutter-rock interface. At last, the correlation analysis indicates that the cutting force of sandstone and granite is highly correlated with , E/σc and σt. This study serves as a theoretical support and technical guidance for cutting hot dry rock (HDR), which is of great significance to HDR drilling.展开更多
The high stress levels in tall tailings dams can lead to particle crushing.Understanding the compressibility and breakage characteristics of tailings particles will contribute to the advancement to the design and cons...The high stress levels in tall tailings dams can lead to particle crushing.Understanding the compressibility and breakage characteristics of tailings particles will contribute to the advancement to the design and construction processes of high-rise tailings dams,as well as the accurate evaluation of the stability of tailings storage facilities(TSFs).This paper presents the results of a series of detailed one-dimensional oedometer compression tests conducted to investigate the compression behavior and particle breakage of iron ore tailings(IOTs)collected from two typical TSFs,with different initial particle size distributions and a wide range of initial specific volumes,under effective vertical stresses of up to 4.8 MPa.The results show that the compression paths of the IOTs were slowly convergent,and this nontransitional mode of compression behavior experienced a significant amount of particle breakage.The relative breakage(Br)was used to quantify the amount of breakage and the input specific work(W)was adopted to evaluate the factors influencing Br.The initial breakage stress of the IOTs was less than 0.2 MPa.For the finer tailings,Br increased with increasing vertical stresses until it reached a threshold,after which Br tended to remain constant.However,coarser IOTs continued to experience crushing even at 4.8 MPa.The particle breakage in the coarser IOTs is much more significant than it in the finer IOTs overall.It was also observed that the tailings grains within the loose specimens broke more easily than those within the dense specimens.Additionally,three types of particle crushing modes were identified for IOTs under one-dimensional compression,namely,abrasion,chipping,and splitting.展开更多
Particle breakage continuously changes the grading of granular materials and has a significant effect on their mechanical behaviors.Revealing the evolution pattern of particle breakage is valuable for development and ...Particle breakage continuously changes the grading of granular materials and has a significant effect on their mechanical behaviors.Revealing the evolution pattern of particle breakage is valuable for development and validation of constitutive models for crushable materials.A series of parallel triaxial compression tests along the same loading paths but stopped at different axial strains were conducted on two coral sands with different particle sizes under drained and undrained conditions.The tested specimens were carefully sieved to investigate the intermediate accumulation of particle breakage during the loading process.The test results showed that under both drained and undrained conditions,particle breakage increases continuously with increasing axial strain but exhibits different accumulating patterns,and higher confining pressures lead to greater particle breakage.Based on the test results,the correlations between particle breakage and the stress state as well as the input energy were examined.The results demonstrated that either the stress state or input energy alone is inadequate for describing the intermediate process of particle breakage evolution.Then,based on experimental observation,a path-dependent model was proposed for particle breakage evolution,which was formulated in an incremental form and reasonably considers the effects of the past breakage history and current stress state on the breakage rate.The path-dependent model successfully reproduced the development of particle breakage during undrained triaxial compression using the parameters calibrated from the drained tests,preliminarily demonstrating its effectiveness for different stress paths.展开更多
A Discrete Element Method （DEM） model is developed to study the particle break- age effect on the one-dimensional compression behavior of silica sands. The ＇maximum tensile stress＇ breakage criterion considering m...A Discrete Element Method （DEM） model is developed to study the particle break- age effect on the one-dimensional compression behavior of silica sands. The ＇maximum tensile stress＇ breakage criterion considering multiple contacts is adopted to simulate the crushing of circular particles in the DEM. The model is compared with published experimental results. Com- parison between the compression curves obtained from the numerical and experimental results shows that the proposed method is very effective in studying the compression behavior of silica sands considering particle breakage. The evolution of compression curves at different stress levels is extensively studied using contact force distribution, variation of contact number and particle size distribution curve with loading. It is found that particle breakage has great impact on com- pression behavior of sand, particularly after the yield stress is reached and particle breakage starts. The crushing probability of particles is found to be macroscopically affected by stress level and particle size distribution curve, and microscopically related to the evolutions of contact force and coordination number. Once the soil becomes well-graded and the average coordination number is greater than 4 in two-dimension, the crushing probability of parent particles can reduce by up to 5/6. It is found that the average contact force does not always increase with loading, but increases to a peak value then decreases once the soil becomes more well-graded. It is found through the loading rate sensitivity analysis that the compression behavior of sand samples in the DEM is also affected by the loading rate. Higher yield stresses are obtained at higher loading rates.展开更多
Understanding the mechanisms of the breakage of ore particles is important to predict the particle size distribution in size reduction operations.This paper aims to show the presence of common breakage modes in impact...Understanding the mechanisms of the breakage of ore particles is important to predict the particle size distribution in size reduction operations.This paper aims to show the presence of common breakage modes in impact breakage and ball milling of the cement clinker and chromite samples.For that purpose,narrow size fractions of the two samples were broken in a drop-weight tester or ball mill by changing the degree of applied energy.Then the resultant size distributions were evaluated to seek evidence for the common breakage modes.The results showed that increasing the breakage energy will produce a systematic change in the shapes of the size distributions,suggesting a sequential set of breakage modes.The breakage is initially due to tensile stresses at low breakage energies and compressive stresses at high breakage energies.Further studies should be done to assess if these breakage modes occur at sizereduction of different ores.展开更多
Laboratory tests were carried out to study the breakage kinetics of diasporic bauxite and determine its breakage distribution function. Non-first order breakage with different deceleration rates for different size int...Laboratory tests were carried out to study the breakage kinetics of diasporic bauxite and determine its breakage distribution function. Non-first order breakage with different deceleration rates for different size intervals is found, which is most probably caused by the heterogeneity of the ore. Piecewise linearization method is proposed to describe the non-first order breakage according to its characteristics. In the method, grinding time is divided into several intervals and breakage is assumed to be first order in each interval. So, the breakage rates are calculated by taking the product of the last interval as feed and then established as a function of particle size and grinding time. Based on the predetermined breakage rate function, the breakage distribution of the ore is back-calculated from the experimental data using the population balance model (PBM). Finally, the obtained breakage parameters are validated and the simulated data are in good agreement with the experimental data. The obtained breakage distribution and the method for breakage rate description are both significant for modeling the full scale ball milling process of bauxite.展开更多
This paper presents particle breakage and the mobilized drained shear strengths of sand with the purpose of clarifying the influence of particle breakage on the mobilized shear strengths of sand. Several drained triax...This paper presents particle breakage and the mobilized drained shear strengths of sand with the purpose of clarifying the influence of particle breakage on the mobilized shear strengths of sand. Several drained triaxial tests were carried out on Silica sand No.5 under 3 MPa confining pressure to produce the pre-crushed sands in simulating the high- pressure shear process on soil to result in particle breakage, and then the pre-crushed sands were re- sheared in series of drained triaxial tests to investigate the mobilized strengths of the pre-crushed sands in detecting the influence of particle breakage. It was found that, by deteriorating strain-stress behavior, particle breakage resulted in change of stress-dilataney behavior in translation and rotation of the relation of the dilatancy factor and the effective principal stress ratio. For a given initial void ratio, particle breakage resulted in impairment of dilatancy behavior of soil to be more contractive in deterioration of the mobilized friction angle and the mobilized dilatancy angle and reduction of void ratio. However, particle breakage resulted in increase of the mobilized basic friction angle especially before failure. In addition, the influence of particle breakage on the mobilized strengths was revealed to be influenced by the shear stress-strain state.展开更多
Based on the research on rock burst phenomenon induced by the breakage of thick and hard roof around roadways and working faces in coal mines, a criterion of rock burst induced by roof breakage （RBRB） was proposed a...Based on the research on rock burst phenomenon induced by the breakage of thick and hard roof around roadways and working faces in coal mines, a criterion of rock burst induced by roof breakage （RBRB） was proposed and the model was built. Through the model, a method calculating the varied stresses induced by roof breakage in support objects and coal body was proposed and a unified formula was derived for the calculation of stress increment on support objects and coal body under different breaking forms of roof. Whilst the formula for calculating dynamic load was derived by introducing dynamic index Kd. The formula was verified in Huating Mine by stress measurement. According to the formula for stress increment calculating, the sensitivities of dynamic load parameters were further studied. The results show that the thickness and breaking depth of roof, width of support objeet are the sensitive factors. Based on the discussion of the model, six associated effective methods for rock burst prevention are obtained.展开更多
The paper proposes a three-scale binary medium-based constitutive model on the basis of the meso structures and micro components to describe the elasto-plastic mechanical behavior of mudstone samples.Based on the brea...The paper proposes a three-scale binary medium-based constitutive model on the basis of the meso structures and micro components to describe the elasto-plastic mechanical behavior of mudstone samples.Based on the breakage mechanism of geomaterials,mudstone samples are considered as two different materials(bonded and frictional elements)at mesoscales.From micro to meso scales,given the similar but different mineralogy composition and porosity of the bonded and frictional elements at microscale,as well as their separate mechanical characteristics,different homogenization methods are adopted to obtain their respective meso mechanical properties.At the mesoscale,in view of the unique meso structures and the continuous material transformation,the extended self-consistent scheme(SCS)is improved to be adaptable to elasto-plastic composites with varying meso components.With the consideration of the evolution form of the breakage ratio under the external loading being given based on the assumed strength distribution of the meso bonded elements,the mechanical relations between meso and macro scales are established.Finally,on the basis of the mean-field method and combined with the critical mechanical connections between different scales,the micro-meso-macro constitutive model for mudstone samples are proposed.The model validation shows that,with a few model parameters,the proposed model can well reflect the stress and deformation features of mudstone samples with complex micro-components.展开更多
Coal and gas outburst is a dynamic phenomenon in underground mining engineering that is often accompanied by the throwing and breakage of large amounts of coal.To study the crushing effect and its evolution during out...Coal and gas outburst is a dynamic phenomenon in underground mining engineering that is often accompanied by the throwing and breakage of large amounts of coal.To study the crushing effect and its evolution during outbursts,coal samples with different initial particle sizes were evaluated using a coal and gas outburst testing device.Three basic particle sizes,5–10 mesh,10–40 mesh,and 40–80 mesh,as well as some mixed particle size coal samples were used in tests.The coal particles were pre-compacted at a pressure of 4 MPa before the tests.The vertical ground stress(4 MPa)and the horizontal ground stress(2.4 MPa)were initially simulated by the hydraulic system and maintained throughout.During the tests,the samples were first placed in a vacuum for 3 h,and the coal was filled with gas(CH4)for an adsorption time of approximately 5 h.Finally,the gas valve was shut off and the coal and gas outburst was induced by quickly opening the outburst hole.The coal particles that were thrown out by the outburst test device were collected and screened based on the particle size.The results show the following.(1)Smaller particle sizes have a worse crushing effect than larger sizes.Furthermore,the well-graded coal particles are weakly broken during the outburst process.(2)As the number of repeated tests increases,the relative breakage index grows;however,the increment of growth decreases after each test,showing that further fragmentation becomes increasingly difficult.展开更多
Particle breakage is a common occurrence in granular systems when the external stress exceeds the individual particle strength.A large number of experimental evidences suggested that particle breakage may significantl...Particle breakage is a common occurrence in granular systems when the external stress exceeds the individual particle strength.A large number of experimental evidences suggested that particle breakage may significantly influence the soil behavior.In the case of pile foundations,the subsoil below the pile tip experiences considerable high stress and consequently prone to break.Due to the lack of sufficient understanding on particle breakage mechanism,there is currently no consentaneous theoretical background for particle breakage analysis during the pile penetration process.This study aims to clarify the location of particle breakage and its evolving characteristics with the aid of acoustic emission(AE)source location method.The spatial distribution of AE hypocenters is interpreted to be associated with the mechanism of particle breakage.Results showed that the AE sources were not uniformly distributed,but concentrated within certain zones below the pile tip.This AE concentration zone was pushed downward with the advancing pile tip,and its distance from the real time pile tip position decreased after certain depth of pile penetration.The location of particle breakage interpreted from AE source location was verified with posttest excavations and the insights on the particle breakage evolution zone were further discussed.展开更多
Alternariol caused DNA single-strand breakage. Conversion of the closed circular double-stranded supercoiled DNA (pBR 322) to the nicked circular form and linear form was used to investigate the effect of extracts of ...Alternariol caused DNA single-strand breakage. Conversion of the closed circular double-stranded supercoiled DNA (pBR 322) to the nicked circular form and linear form was used to investigate the effect of extracts of some Chinese medical herbs on DNA nicking induced by alternariol. Some substances in the extracts of Rhizoma polygonati (RP) and Fructus lycii (FL) were shown to protect DNA from the attack by alternariol.Some substance in the RP may bind to plasmid DNA, and this binding reduces the electrophoretic mobility of DNA. These results indicate that substances from FL and RP may be used as DNA protectors. It is possible that they play an important role in preventing cancer.展开更多
This paper presents a laboratory experimental study on particle breakage of sand subjected to friction and collision,by a number of drum tests on granular materials(silica sand No.3 and ceramic balls)to investigate th...This paper presents a laboratory experimental study on particle breakage of sand subjected to friction and collision,by a number of drum tests on granular materials(silica sand No.3 and ceramic balls)to investigate the characteristics of particle breakage and its effect on the characteristics of grain size distribution of sand.Particle breakage increased in up convexity with increasing duration of drum tests,but increased linearly with increasing number of balls.Particle breakage showed an increase,followed by a decrease while increasing the amount of sand.There may be existence of a characteristic amount of sand causing a maximum particle breakage.Friction tests caused much less particle breakage than collision tests did.Friction and collision resulted in different mechanisms of particle breakage,mainly by abrasion for friction and by splitting for collision.The fines content increased with increasing relative breakage.Particle breakage in the friction tests(abrasion)resulted in a sharper increase but with a smaller total amount of fines content in comparison with that in the collision tests(splitting).For the collision tests,the fines content showed a decrease followed by an increase as the amount of sand increased,whereas it increased in up convexity with increasing number of balls.The characteristic grain sizes D_(10) and D_(30) decreased in down convexity with increasing relative breakage,which could be described by a natural exponential function.However,the characteristic grain sizes D50 and D60 decreased linearly while increasing the relative breakage.In addition,the coefficients of uniformity and curvature of sand showed an increase followed by a decrease while increasing the relative breakage.展开更多
The particle breakage during specimen shearing has a significant influence on the critical-state line (CSL) of the rockfill material. A series of large-scale triaxial compression tests on the rockfill material from He...The particle breakage during specimen shearing has a significant influence on the critical-state line (CSL) of the rockfill material. A series of large-scale triaxial compression tests on the rockfill material from Henan Province (HPR) were conducted in a wide range of initial void ratios and confining pressures. The influences of the particle breakage on the critical-state stress ratio Mc, the peak stress ratio Mp and dilatancy stress ratio Md were investigated. The deviatoric stress and particle breakage of the HPR at the critical state increase with the increase in confining pressure, while the influences of the initial void ratio on these behaviors are too little to be considered. The gradient of the CSL in the q-p space of the rockfilL Mc, was found to be passively correlated with the particle breakage index rather than being a constant. Additionally, the observed values of Mc at low confining pressures (low particle breakage occur) will be substantially undervalued if Mc is estimated as a constant. In the critical-state-theorybased constitutive models, Mp and Md are estimated as the combinations of Mc and state parameter 0. It is believed that the simulations of Mp and Md when Mc is correlated with Br are obviously more favorable than those when Mc is constant.展开更多
Breakage of particles will have greatly influence on mechanical behavior of granular material(GM)under external loads,such as ballast,rockfill and sand.The discrete element method(DEM)is one of the most popular method...Breakage of particles will have greatly influence on mechanical behavior of granular material(GM)under external loads,such as ballast,rockfill and sand.The discrete element method(DEM)is one of the most popular methods for simulating GM as each particle is represented on its own.To study breakage mechanism of particle breakage,a cohesive contact mode is developed based on the GPU accelerated DEM code-Blaze-DEM.A database of the 3D geometry model of rock blocks is established based on the 3D scanning method.And an agglomerate describing the rock block with a series of non-overlapping spherical particles is used to build the DEM numerical model of a railway ballast sample,which is used to the DEM oedometric test to study the particles’breakage characteristics of the sample under external load.Furthermore,to obtain the meso-mechanical parameters used in DEM,a black-analysis method is used based on the laboratory tests of the rock sample.Based on the DEM numerical tests,the particle breakage process and mechanisms of the railway ballast are studied.All results show that the developed code can better used for large scale simulation of the particle breakage analysis of granular material.展开更多
The rate of corn kernel breakage in the grain combine harvesters is a crucial factor affecting the quality of the grain shelled in the field. The objective of the present study was to determine the susceptibility of c...The rate of corn kernel breakage in the grain combine harvesters is a crucial factor affecting the quality of the grain shelled in the field. The objective of the present study was to determine the susceptibility of corn kernels to breakage based on the kernel moisture content in order to determine the moisture content that corresponds to the lowest rate of breakage.In addition, we evaluated the resistance to breakage of various corn cultivars. A total of 17 different corn cultivars were planted at two different sowing dates at the Beibuchang Experiment Station, Beijing and the Xinxiang Experiment Station(Henan Province) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The corn kernel moisture content was systematically monitored and recorded over time, and the breakage rate was measured by using the grinding method. The results for all grain samples from the two experimental stations revealed that the breakage rate y is quadratic in moisture content x,y=0.0796 x^(2)-3.3929 x+78.779;R^(2)0=0.2646, n=512. By fitting to the regression equation, a minimum corn kernel breakage rate of 42.62% was obtained, corresponding to a corn kernel moisture content of 21.31%. Furthermore, in the 90% confidence interval, the corn kernel moisture ranging from 19.7 to 22.3% led to the lowest kernel breakage rate, which was consistent with the corn kernel moisture content allowing the lowest breakage rate of corn kernels shelled in the field with combine grain harvesters. Using the lowest breakage rate as the critical point, the correlation between breakage rate and moisture content was significantly negative for low moisture content but positive for high moisture content. The slope and correlation coefficient of the linear regression equation indicated that high moisture content led to greater sensitivity and correlation between grain breakage and moisture content. At the Beibuchang Experiment Station, the corn cultivars resistant to breakage were Zhengdan 958(ZD958) and Fengken 139(FK139), and the corn cultivars non-resistant to breakage were Lianchuang 825(LC825), Jidan 66(JD66), Lidan 295(LD295), and Jingnongke 728(JNK728). At the Xinxiang Experiment Station, the corn cultivars resistant to breakage were HT1, ZD958 and FK139, and the corn cultivars non-resistant to breakage were ZY8911, DK653 and JNK728. Thus, the breakage classifications of the six corn cultivars were consistent between the two experimental stations. In conclusion, the results suggested that the high stability of the grinding method allowed it to be used to determine the corn kernel breakage rates of different corn cultivars as a function of moisture content, thus facilitating the breeding and screening of breakage-resistant corn.展开更多
This work focuses on drop breakage for liquid-liquid system with an adoption of numerical simulation by using computational fluid dynamics and population balance model (PBM) coupled with two-fluid model (TFM). Two dif...This work focuses on drop breakage for liquid-liquid system with an adoption of numerical simulation by using computational fluid dynamics and population balance model (PBM) coupled with two-fluid model (TFM). Two different breakage kernels based on identical breakage mechanism but different descriptions of breaking time are take n into account in this work. Eight cases corresp on ding to distinct configurations of agitator are carried out to validate numerical predictions, namely agitators with different porosity and hole diameters, respectively implemented in Cases 1 to 5 and Cases 6 to 8. The results are compared with experimental data for testing the applicability of both kernels. Simulations are implemented, in this work, with an approach of class method for the solution of population balance model by the special-purpose computational fluid dynamics solver Fluent 16.1 based on finite volume method, and the grids used for meshing the solution domain are accomplished in a commercial software Gambit 2.4.6. The effects of configurations of agitator corresponding to different parameters mentioned above on final Sauter mean diameter are equally concentrated in this work. Analysis of both kernels and comparisons with experimental results reveal that, the second kernel has more decent agreement with experiments, and the results of investigations on effects of agitator configurations show that the in fluences of these parameters on Sauter mean diameter are marginal, but appropriate porosity and hole diameter are actually able to decrease Sauter mean diameter. These outcomes allow us to draw general conclusions and help investigate performances of liquid-liquid system.展开更多
基金co-supported by the Science Center for Gas Turbine Project, China(No. P2022-AB-IV-001-002)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 91960203)+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. D5000230048)the Innovation Capability Support Program of Shaanxi (No. 2022TD-60)
文摘Superior strength and high-temperature performance make γ-TiAl vital for lightweight aero-engines. However, its inherent brittleness poses machining problems. This study employed Elliptical Ultrasonic Vibration Milling (EUVM) to address these problems. Considering the influence of machining parameters on vibration patterns of EUVM, a separation time model was established to analyze the vibration evolutionary process, thereby instructing the cutting mechanism. On this basis, deep discussions regarding chip formation, cutting force, edge breakage, and subsurface layer deformation were conducted for EUVM and Conventional Milling (CM). Chip morphology showed the chip formation was rooted in the periodic brittle fracture. Local dimples proved that the thermal effect of high-speed cutting improved the plasticity of γ-TiAl. EUVM achieved a maximum 18.17% reduction in cutting force compared with CM. The force variation mechanism differed with changes in the cutting speed or the vibration amplitude, and its correlation with thermal softening, strain hardening, and vibratory cutting effects was analyzed. EUVM attained desirable edge breakage by achieving smaller fracture lengths. The fracture mechanisms of different phases were distinct, causing a surge in edge fracture size of γ-TiAl under microstructural differences. In terms of subsurface deformation, EUVM also showed strengthening effects. Noteworthy, the lamellar deformation patterns under the cutting removal state differed from the quasi-static, which was categorized by the orientation angles. Additionally, the electron backscattering diffraction provided details of the influence of microstructural difference on the orientation and the deformation of grains in the subsurface layer. The results demonstrate that EUVM is a promising machining method for γ-TiAl and guide further research and development of EUVM γ-TiAl.
基金supported by the NSFC Key International(Regional)Cooperative Research Projects(No.52020105001)National Natural Science Foundation of China(52304014)+2 种基金China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project(2023M733873)the Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum,Beijing(No.2462023SZBH003)General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(52374016,52274016)。
文摘The oil and gas stored in deep and ultra-deep carbonate reservoirs is the focus of future exploration and development.Conical PDC(Polycrystalline Diamond Compact)cutter,which is a new kind of PDC cutter,can significantly improve the rate of penetration(ROP)and extend PDC bit life in hard and abrasive formations.However,the breakage characteristics and failure mode of the conical PDC cutter cutting carbonate rock is still masked.In this paper,a series of single-cutter cutting tests were carried out with the conical and conventional PDC cutters.The cutting force,rock-breaking process,surface morphology of cutting grooves and cuttings characteristic were analyzed.Based on the derived formula of the brittle fracture index,the failure model of carbonate rock was quantitatively analyzed under the action of conical and conventional cutter.The results show that the average cutting force of the conical cutter is less than that of the conventional cutter,which means greater stability of the cutting process using the conical cutter.Carbonate rock with calcite as the main component tends to generate blocky rock debris by conical cutter.The height of the cuttings generated by the conical cutter is 0.5 mm higher than that generated by the conventional cutter.The conical cutter exhibits enhanced penetration capabilities within carbonate rock.The accumulation of rock debris in front of the conventional cutter is obvious.Whereas,the conical cutter facilitates the cuttings transport,thereby alleviating drilling stickiness slip.At different cutting depths,the conical cutter consistently causes asymmetric jagged brittle tensile fracture zones on both sides of the cutting groove.Calculations based on the brittle fracture index demonstrate that the brittle fracture index of the conical cutter generally doubles that of the conventional cutter.For carbonate rock,the conical cutter displays superior utilization of brittle fracture abilities.The research findings of this work offer insights into the breakage process and failure mode of carbonate rock by the conical cutter.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31971541 and 32201545).
文摘Extreme weather events pose an ever-greater threat to people,infrastructure,and nature.Forest ecosystems are highly sensitive to extreme cold events that can disrupt ecosystem functions,especially in montane regions.Ice storms can be particularly destructive,with rapid ice accretion causing tree branches to break,even snapping or uprooting entire trees.In March 2022,the Shennongjia forest in central China experienced severe ice storm conditions that severely damaged over 230,300ha.We utilized this opportunity to assess the vulnerability of different tree types(coniferous,deciduous,and evergreen broad-leaved)and stand compositions to damage resulting from ice glaze along an elevation gradient from 1,200 to 2,400m a.s.l.Among the 7,144 trees surveyed,10.1%suffered some extent of damage,which was most prolific in the middle elevation zone.While 96.8%of all damage occurred to deciduous broadleaved trees that dominated the forest community,the most severe damage(uprooting and lower trunk breakage)occurred to coniferous trees.The extent and severity of tree damage were moderated by forest composition,with secondary effects of forest structure and slope.Abiotic factors predominantly affected coniferous trees.We emphasize that more research and monitoring are needed to better understand the full impact of extreme weather events on forests,especially as the frequency and intensity of these events increases due to climate change.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52004236)the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52234003)+2 种基金Sichuan Provincial Returned Scholars'Scientific and Technological Activities Merit-based Funding Programs(Grant No.2023016)Open project of the International Joint Research Center for Deep Earth Drilling and Deep Earth Resources Development of the Ministry of Science and Technology(Grant No.DEDRD-2023-06)the National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Youth Science Fund Program(Grant No.52222402).
文摘Geothermal energy is a clean and ecologically friendly energy source with significant potential. The temperature variations between the Polycrystalline Diamond Compact (PDC) cutter and the rock of the reservoir are the key factors affecting the cutting performance when drilling through formations with thermally damaged rock. To better investigate the temperature rise, a series of rock samples treated at high temperatures (9–300℃) were broken with a PDC cutter. The performance of the PDC cutter on these samples was studied using cutting force sensors, high-speed photography, and the thermal infrared imager. Based on the experimental data, a new cutting force evaluation parameter, η, is suggested. The link between the cutting force and rock properties is discussed in detail. The present results indicate that the average cutting force of high-temperature-treated granite is 3–5 times that of the thermally damaged sandstone. Furthermore, a critical temperature for thermal damage has been identified in granite cutting at 100–200℃ and in sandstone at 100℃. This corresponds to the temperature at which interlayer water loss and thermal crack closure occur. The results also indicate that when the treatment temperature exceeds the critical threshold, both the cutting force and temperature rise exhibit more significant changes with increasing temperature. Additionally, the maximum temperature of the PDC cutter during granite cutting can reach 47.6 ℃, which is almost 34℃ higher than that of sandstone. Regarding debris size, granite is much less sensitive to the treatment temperature, showing only slight changes in debris size compared to sandstone as the treatment temperature increases. The increasing cutter-rock interface area can significantly reduce frictional heat generation while increasing the cutting force and enhancing the temperature rise. The parameter valuation of the newly defined parameter η, which is related to frictional heating, shows that the capacity of the thermal generation and the heat transfer change as the temperature rises at the cutter-rock interface. At last, the correlation analysis indicates that the cutting force of sandstone and granite is highly correlated with , E/σc and σt. This study serves as a theoretical support and technical guidance for cutting hot dry rock (HDR), which is of great significance to HDR drilling.
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文摘The high stress levels in tall tailings dams can lead to particle crushing.Understanding the compressibility and breakage characteristics of tailings particles will contribute to the advancement to the design and construction processes of high-rise tailings dams,as well as the accurate evaluation of the stability of tailings storage facilities(TSFs).This paper presents the results of a series of detailed one-dimensional oedometer compression tests conducted to investigate the compression behavior and particle breakage of iron ore tailings(IOTs)collected from two typical TSFs,with different initial particle size distributions and a wide range of initial specific volumes,under effective vertical stresses of up to 4.8 MPa.The results show that the compression paths of the IOTs were slowly convergent,and this nontransitional mode of compression behavior experienced a significant amount of particle breakage.The relative breakage(Br)was used to quantify the amount of breakage and the input specific work(W)was adopted to evaluate the factors influencing Br.The initial breakage stress of the IOTs was less than 0.2 MPa.For the finer tailings,Br increased with increasing vertical stresses until it reached a threshold,after which Br tended to remain constant.However,coarser IOTs continued to experience crushing even at 4.8 MPa.The particle breakage in the coarser IOTs is much more significant than it in the finer IOTs overall.It was also observed that the tailings grains within the loose specimens broke more easily than those within the dense specimens.Additionally,three types of particle crushing modes were identified for IOTs under one-dimensional compression,namely,abrasion,chipping,and splitting.
基金This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51679016 and 52079012).
文摘Particle breakage continuously changes the grading of granular materials and has a significant effect on their mechanical behaviors.Revealing the evolution pattern of particle breakage is valuable for development and validation of constitutive models for crushable materials.A series of parallel triaxial compression tests along the same loading paths but stopped at different axial strains were conducted on two coral sands with different particle sizes under drained and undrained conditions.The tested specimens were carefully sieved to investigate the intermediate accumulation of particle breakage during the loading process.The test results showed that under both drained and undrained conditions,particle breakage increases continuously with increasing axial strain but exhibits different accumulating patterns,and higher confining pressures lead to greater particle breakage.Based on the test results,the correlations between particle breakage and the stress state as well as the input energy were examined.The results demonstrated that either the stress state or input energy alone is inadequate for describing the intermediate process of particle breakage evolution.Then,based on experimental observation,a path-dependent model was proposed for particle breakage evolution,which was formulated in an incremental form and reasonably considers the effects of the past breakage history and current stress state on the breakage rate.The path-dependent model successfully reproduced the development of particle breakage during undrained triaxial compression using the parameters calibrated from the drained tests,preliminarily demonstrating its effectiveness for different stress paths.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.50909057,51208294 and 41372319)the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission(No.15ZZ081)the Innovation Project of Shanghai Postgraduate Education(No.20131129)
文摘A Discrete Element Method （DEM） model is developed to study the particle break- age effect on the one-dimensional compression behavior of silica sands. The ＇maximum tensile stress＇ breakage criterion considering multiple contacts is adopted to simulate the crushing of circular particles in the DEM. The model is compared with published experimental results. Com- parison between the compression curves obtained from the numerical and experimental results shows that the proposed method is very effective in studying the compression behavior of silica sands considering particle breakage. The evolution of compression curves at different stress levels is extensively studied using contact force distribution, variation of contact number and particle size distribution curve with loading. It is found that particle breakage has great impact on com- pression behavior of sand, particularly after the yield stress is reached and particle breakage starts. The crushing probability of particles is found to be macroscopically affected by stress level and particle size distribution curve, and microscopically related to the evolutions of contact force and coordination number. Once the soil becomes well-graded and the average coordination number is greater than 4 in two-dimension, the crushing probability of parent particles can reduce by up to 5/6. It is found that the average contact force does not always increase with loading, but increases to a peak value then decreases once the soil becomes more well-graded. It is found through the loading rate sensitivity analysis that the compression behavior of sand samples in the DEM is also affected by the loading rate. Higher yield stresses are obtained at higher loading rates.
文摘Understanding the mechanisms of the breakage of ore particles is important to predict the particle size distribution in size reduction operations.This paper aims to show the presence of common breakage modes in impact breakage and ball milling of the cement clinker and chromite samples.For that purpose,narrow size fractions of the two samples were broken in a drop-weight tester or ball mill by changing the degree of applied energy.Then the resultant size distributions were evaluated to seek evidence for the common breakage modes.The results showed that increasing the breakage energy will produce a systematic change in the shapes of the size distributions,suggesting a sequential set of breakage modes.The breakage is initially due to tensile stresses at low breakage energies and compressive stresses at high breakage energies.Further studies should be done to assess if these breakage modes occur at sizereduction of different ores.
基金Supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2012QNZT069)the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (2012M521413)+1 种基金the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (61025015)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61273187, 61273159)
文摘Laboratory tests were carried out to study the breakage kinetics of diasporic bauxite and determine its breakage distribution function. Non-first order breakage with different deceleration rates for different size intervals is found, which is most probably caused by the heterogeneity of the ore. Piecewise linearization method is proposed to describe the non-first order breakage according to its characteristics. In the method, grinding time is divided into several intervals and breakage is assumed to be first order in each interval. So, the breakage rates are calculated by taking the product of the last interval as feed and then established as a function of particle size and grinding time. Based on the predetermined breakage rate function, the breakage distribution of the ore is back-calculated from the experimental data using the population balance model (PBM). Finally, the obtained breakage parameters are validated and the simulated data are in good agreement with the experimental data. The obtained breakage distribution and the method for breakage rate description are both significant for modeling the full scale ball milling process of bauxite.
基金The financial assistance by China Scholarship Council (Grant No. 2011671035)the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (Grant No. 2013CB733201)+3 种基金Key Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZZDEW-05-01)One-Hundred Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (SU Li-jun)CAS "Light of West China" Program (Grant No. Y6R2250250)Youth Fund of Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. Y6K2110110)
文摘This paper presents particle breakage and the mobilized drained shear strengths of sand with the purpose of clarifying the influence of particle breakage on the mobilized shear strengths of sand. Several drained triaxial tests were carried out on Silica sand No.5 under 3 MPa confining pressure to produce the pre-crushed sands in simulating the high- pressure shear process on soil to result in particle breakage, and then the pre-crushed sands were re- sheared in series of drained triaxial tests to investigate the mobilized strengths of the pre-crushed sands in detecting the influence of particle breakage. It was found that, by deteriorating strain-stress behavior, particle breakage resulted in change of stress-dilataney behavior in translation and rotation of the relation of the dilatancy factor and the effective principal stress ratio. For a given initial void ratio, particle breakage resulted in impairment of dilatancy behavior of soil to be more contractive in deterioration of the mobilized friction angle and the mobilized dilatancy angle and reduction of void ratio. However, particle breakage resulted in increase of the mobilized basic friction angle especially before failure. In addition, the influence of particle breakage on the mobilized strengths was revealed to be influenced by the shear stress-strain state.
基金Project(2010CB226805) supported by the National Basic Research Program of ChinaProjects(30370412,30670558) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(SKLCRSM10X05) supported by the Self-research Program of the Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining,China
文摘Based on the research on rock burst phenomenon induced by the breakage of thick and hard roof around roadways and working faces in coal mines, a criterion of rock burst induced by roof breakage （RBRB） was proposed and the model was built. Through the model, a method calculating the varied stresses induced by roof breakage in support objects and coal body was proposed and a unified formula was derived for the calculation of stress increment on support objects and coal body under different breaking forms of roof. Whilst the formula for calculating dynamic load was derived by introducing dynamic index Kd. The formula was verified in Huating Mine by stress measurement. According to the formula for stress increment calculating, the sensitivities of dynamic load parameters were further studied. The results show that the thickness and breaking depth of roof, width of support objeet are the sensitive factors. Based on the discussion of the model, six associated effective methods for rock burst prevention are obtained.
基金the funding of Highway Planning,Survey and Design Research Institute,Sichuan Provincial Transport Department(No.2020-WX-15)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(No.U22A20596).
文摘The paper proposes a three-scale binary medium-based constitutive model on the basis of the meso structures and micro components to describe the elasto-plastic mechanical behavior of mudstone samples.Based on the breakage mechanism of geomaterials,mudstone samples are considered as two different materials(bonded and frictional elements)at mesoscales.From micro to meso scales,given the similar but different mineralogy composition and porosity of the bonded and frictional elements at microscale,as well as their separate mechanical characteristics,different homogenization methods are adopted to obtain their respective meso mechanical properties.At the mesoscale,in view of the unique meso structures and the continuous material transformation,the extended self-consistent scheme(SCS)is improved to be adaptable to elasto-plastic composites with varying meso components.With the consideration of the evolution form of the breakage ratio under the external loading being given based on the assumed strength distribution of the meso bonded elements,the mechanical relations between meso and macro scales are established.Finally,on the basis of the mean-field method and combined with the critical mechanical connections between different scales,the micro-meso-macro constitutive model for mudstone samples are proposed.The model validation shows that,with a few model parameters,the proposed model can well reflect the stress and deformation features of mudstone samples with complex micro-components.
基金This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51434003)the Project of the Ministry of Emergency Management of the People's Republic of China(sichuan-0011-2018AQ)the Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province(19YYJC2854).
文摘Coal and gas outburst is a dynamic phenomenon in underground mining engineering that is often accompanied by the throwing and breakage of large amounts of coal.To study the crushing effect and its evolution during outbursts,coal samples with different initial particle sizes were evaluated using a coal and gas outburst testing device.Three basic particle sizes,5–10 mesh,10–40 mesh,and 40–80 mesh,as well as some mixed particle size coal samples were used in tests.The coal particles were pre-compacted at a pressure of 4 MPa before the tests.The vertical ground stress(4 MPa)and the horizontal ground stress(2.4 MPa)were initially simulated by the hydraulic system and maintained throughout.During the tests,the samples were first placed in a vacuum for 3 h,and the coal was filled with gas(CH4)for an adsorption time of approximately 5 h.Finally,the gas valve was shut off and the coal and gas outburst was induced by quickly opening the outburst hole.The coal particles that were thrown out by the outburst test device were collected and screened based on the particle size.The results show the following.(1)Smaller particle sizes have a worse crushing effect than larger sizes.Furthermore,the well-graded coal particles are weakly broken during the outburst process.(2)As the number of repeated tests increases,the relative breakage index grows;however,the increment of growth decreases after each test,showing that further fragmentation becomes increasingly difficult.
基金sponsored by the Shanghai Sailing Program (Grant No. 18YF1424000)Shanghai Education Commission (Peak Discipline Construction Program, Grant Nos. 0200121005/052 & 2019010206)
文摘Particle breakage is a common occurrence in granular systems when the external stress exceeds the individual particle strength.A large number of experimental evidences suggested that particle breakage may significantly influence the soil behavior.In the case of pile foundations,the subsoil below the pile tip experiences considerable high stress and consequently prone to break.Due to the lack of sufficient understanding on particle breakage mechanism,there is currently no consentaneous theoretical background for particle breakage analysis during the pile penetration process.This study aims to clarify the location of particle breakage and its evolving characteristics with the aid of acoustic emission(AE)source location method.The spatial distribution of AE hypocenters is interpreted to be associated with the mechanism of particle breakage.Results showed that the AE sources were not uniformly distributed,but concentrated within certain zones below the pile tip.This AE concentration zone was pushed downward with the advancing pile tip,and its distance from the real time pile tip position decreased after certain depth of pile penetration.The location of particle breakage interpreted from AE source location was verified with posttest excavations and the insights on the particle breakage evolution zone were further discussed.
文摘Alternariol caused DNA single-strand breakage. Conversion of the closed circular double-stranded supercoiled DNA (pBR 322) to the nicked circular form and linear form was used to investigate the effect of extracts of some Chinese medical herbs on DNA nicking induced by alternariol. Some substances in the extracts of Rhizoma polygonati (RP) and Fructus lycii (FL) were shown to protect DNA from the attack by alternariol.Some substance in the RP may bind to plasmid DNA, and this binding reduces the electrophoretic mobility of DNA. These results indicate that substances from FL and RP may be used as DNA protectors. It is possible that they play an important role in preventing cancer.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41807268)the“Belt&Road”International Cooperation Team for the“Light of West”Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Lijun Su),China,the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences,China(Grant No.2018408)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2019T120864).
文摘This paper presents a laboratory experimental study on particle breakage of sand subjected to friction and collision,by a number of drum tests on granular materials(silica sand No.3 and ceramic balls)to investigate the characteristics of particle breakage and its effect on the characteristics of grain size distribution of sand.Particle breakage increased in up convexity with increasing duration of drum tests,but increased linearly with increasing number of balls.Particle breakage showed an increase,followed by a decrease while increasing the amount of sand.There may be existence of a characteristic amount of sand causing a maximum particle breakage.Friction tests caused much less particle breakage than collision tests did.Friction and collision resulted in different mechanisms of particle breakage,mainly by abrasion for friction and by splitting for collision.The fines content increased with increasing relative breakage.Particle breakage in the friction tests(abrasion)resulted in a sharper increase but with a smaller total amount of fines content in comparison with that in the collision tests(splitting).For the collision tests,the fines content showed a decrease followed by an increase as the amount of sand increased,whereas it increased in up convexity with increasing number of balls.The characteristic grain sizes D_(10) and D_(30) decreased in down convexity with increasing relative breakage,which could be described by a natural exponential function.However,the characteristic grain sizes D50 and D60 decreased linearly while increasing the relative breakage.In addition,the coefficients of uniformity and curvature of sand showed an increase followed by a decrease while increasing the relative breakage.
文摘The particle breakage during specimen shearing has a significant influence on the critical-state line (CSL) of the rockfill material. A series of large-scale triaxial compression tests on the rockfill material from Henan Province (HPR) were conducted in a wide range of initial void ratios and confining pressures. The influences of the particle breakage on the critical-state stress ratio Mc, the peak stress ratio Mp and dilatancy stress ratio Md were investigated. The deviatoric stress and particle breakage of the HPR at the critical state increase with the increase in confining pressure, while the influences of the initial void ratio on these behaviors are too little to be considered. The gradient of the CSL in the q-p space of the rockfilL Mc, was found to be passively correlated with the particle breakage index rather than being a constant. Additionally, the observed values of Mc at low confining pressures (low particle breakage occur) will be substantially undervalued if Mc is estimated as a constant. In the critical-state-theorybased constitutive models, Mp and Md are estimated as the combinations of Mc and state parameter 0. It is believed that the simulations of Mp and Md when Mc is correlated with Br are obviously more favorable than those when Mc is constant.
基金project of “Natural Science Foundation of China, China (Nos. 5187914, 51679123, 51479095)”
文摘Breakage of particles will have greatly influence on mechanical behavior of granular material(GM)under external loads,such as ballast,rockfill and sand.The discrete element method(DEM)is one of the most popular methods for simulating GM as each particle is represented on its own.To study breakage mechanism of particle breakage,a cohesive contact mode is developed based on the GPU accelerated DEM code-Blaze-DEM.A database of the 3D geometry model of rock blocks is established based on the 3D scanning method.And an agglomerate describing the rock block with a series of non-overlapping spherical particles is used to build the DEM numerical model of a railway ballast sample,which is used to the DEM oedometric test to study the particles’breakage characteristics of the sample under external load.Furthermore,to obtain the meso-mechanical parameters used in DEM,a black-analysis method is used based on the laboratory tests of the rock sample.Based on the DEM numerical tests,the particle breakage process and mechanisms of the railway ballast are studied.All results show that the developed code can better used for large scale simulation of the particle breakage analysis of granular material.
基金financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFD0300110,2016YFD0300101)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31371575)+1 种基金the China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA(CARS-0225)the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science。
文摘The rate of corn kernel breakage in the grain combine harvesters is a crucial factor affecting the quality of the grain shelled in the field. The objective of the present study was to determine the susceptibility of corn kernels to breakage based on the kernel moisture content in order to determine the moisture content that corresponds to the lowest rate of breakage.In addition, we evaluated the resistance to breakage of various corn cultivars. A total of 17 different corn cultivars were planted at two different sowing dates at the Beibuchang Experiment Station, Beijing and the Xinxiang Experiment Station(Henan Province) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The corn kernel moisture content was systematically monitored and recorded over time, and the breakage rate was measured by using the grinding method. The results for all grain samples from the two experimental stations revealed that the breakage rate y is quadratic in moisture content x,y=0.0796 x^(2)-3.3929 x+78.779;R^(2)0=0.2646, n=512. By fitting to the regression equation, a minimum corn kernel breakage rate of 42.62% was obtained, corresponding to a corn kernel moisture content of 21.31%. Furthermore, in the 90% confidence interval, the corn kernel moisture ranging from 19.7 to 22.3% led to the lowest kernel breakage rate, which was consistent with the corn kernel moisture content allowing the lowest breakage rate of corn kernels shelled in the field with combine grain harvesters. Using the lowest breakage rate as the critical point, the correlation between breakage rate and moisture content was significantly negative for low moisture content but positive for high moisture content. The slope and correlation coefficient of the linear regression equation indicated that high moisture content led to greater sensitivity and correlation between grain breakage and moisture content. At the Beibuchang Experiment Station, the corn cultivars resistant to breakage were Zhengdan 958(ZD958) and Fengken 139(FK139), and the corn cultivars non-resistant to breakage were Lianchuang 825(LC825), Jidan 66(JD66), Lidan 295(LD295), and Jingnongke 728(JNK728). At the Xinxiang Experiment Station, the corn cultivars resistant to breakage were HT1, ZD958 and FK139, and the corn cultivars non-resistant to breakage were ZY8911, DK653 and JNK728. Thus, the breakage classifications of the six corn cultivars were consistent between the two experimental stations. In conclusion, the results suggested that the high stability of the grinding method allowed it to be used to determine the corn kernel breakage rates of different corn cultivars as a function of moisture content, thus facilitating the breeding and screening of breakage-resistant corn.
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文摘This work focuses on drop breakage for liquid-liquid system with an adoption of numerical simulation by using computational fluid dynamics and population balance model (PBM) coupled with two-fluid model (TFM). Two different breakage kernels based on identical breakage mechanism but different descriptions of breaking time are take n into account in this work. Eight cases corresp on ding to distinct configurations of agitator are carried out to validate numerical predictions, namely agitators with different porosity and hole diameters, respectively implemented in Cases 1 to 5 and Cases 6 to 8. The results are compared with experimental data for testing the applicability of both kernels. Simulations are implemented, in this work, with an approach of class method for the solution of population balance model by the special-purpose computational fluid dynamics solver Fluent 16.1 based on finite volume method, and the grids used for meshing the solution domain are accomplished in a commercial software Gambit 2.4.6. The effects of configurations of agitator corresponding to different parameters mentioned above on final Sauter mean diameter are equally concentrated in this work. Analysis of both kernels and comparisons with experimental results reveal that, the second kernel has more decent agreement with experiments, and the results of investigations on effects of agitator configurations show that the in fluences of these parameters on Sauter mean diameter are marginal, but appropriate porosity and hole diameter are actually able to decrease Sauter mean diameter. These outcomes allow us to draw general conclusions and help investigate performances of liquid-liquid system.
