Creating conditions to implement equilibrium processes of damage accumulation under a predictable scenario enables control over the failure of structural elements in critical states.It improves safety and reduces the ...Creating conditions to implement equilibrium processes of damage accumulation under a predictable scenario enables control over the failure of structural elements in critical states.It improves safety and reduces the probability of catastrophic behavior in case of accidents.Equilibrium damage accumulation in some cases leads to a falling part(called a postcritical stage)on the material’s stress-strain curve.It must be taken into account to assess the strength and deformation limits of composite structures.Digital image correlation method,acoustic emission(AE)signals recording,and optical microscopy were used in this paper to study the deformation and failure processes of an orthogonal-layup composite during tension in various directions to orthotropy axes.An elastic-plastic deformation model was proposed for the composite in a plane stress condition.The evolution of strain fields and neck formation were analyzed.The staging of the postcritical deformation process was described.AE signals obtained during tests were studied;characteristic damage types of a material were defined.The rationality and necessity of polymer composites’postcritical deformation stage taken into account in refined strength analysis of structures were concluded.展开更多
Fused deposition modelling(FDM), a widely used rapid prototyping process, is a promising technique in manufacturing engineering. In this work, a method for characterizing elastic constants of FDM-fabricated materials ...Fused deposition modelling(FDM), a widely used rapid prototyping process, is a promising technique in manufacturing engineering. In this work, a method for characterizing elastic constants of FDM-fabricated materials is proposed. First of all, according to the manufacturing process of FDM, orthotropic constitutive model is used to describe the mechanical behavior. Then the virtual fields method(VFM) is applied to characterize all the mechanical parameters(Q, Q, Q, Q) using the full-field strain,which is measured by digital image correlation(DIC). Since the principal axis of the FDM-fabricated structure is sometimes unknown due to the complexity of the manufacturing process, a disk in diametrical compression is used as the load configuration so that the loading angle can be changed conveniently. To verify the feasibility of the proposed method, finite element method(FEM) simulation is conducted to obtain the strain field of the disk. The simulation results show that higher accuracy can be achieved when the loading angle is close to 30?. Finally, a disk fabricated by FDM was used for the experiment. By rotating the disk, several tests with different loading angles were conducted. To determine the position of the principal axis in each test, two groups of parameters(Q, Q, Q, Q) are calculated by two different groups of virtual fields. Then the corresponding loading angle can be determined by minimizing the deviation between two groups of the parameters. After that, the four constants(Q, Q, Q, Q) were determined from the test with an angle of 27?.展开更多
The splitting test is a competitive alternative method to study the tensile strength of sea ice owing to its suitability for sampling.However,the approach was questioned to the neglect of local plastic deformation dur...The splitting test is a competitive alternative method to study the tensile strength of sea ice owing to its suitability for sampling.However,the approach was questioned to the neglect of local plastic deformation during the tests.In this study,splitting tests were performed on sea ice,with 32 samples subjected to the regular procedure and 8 samples subjected to the digital image correlation method.The salinity,density,and temperature were measured to determine the total porosity.With the advantage of the digital image correlation method,the full-field deformation of the ice samples could be determined.In the loading direction,the samples mainly deformed at the ice-platen contact area.In the direction vertical to the loading,deformation appears along the central line where the splitting crack occurs.Based on the distribution of the sample deformation,a modified solution was derived to calculate the tensile strength with the maximum load.Based on the modified solution,the tensile strength was further calculated together with the splitting test results.The results show that the tensile strength has a negative correlation with the total porosity,which agrees with previous studies based on uniaxial tension tests.展开更多
Application of digital image correlation(DIC) method to determination of in-situ dynamic strain is presented in this study. Firstly, an integrative software is programmed based on the DIC algorithms and pointwise leas...Application of digital image correlation(DIC) method to determination of in-situ dynamic strain is presented in this study. Firstly, an integrative software is programmed based on the DIC algorithms and pointwise least-squares fitting technique. Then, simulated speckle images are generated to study the computational accuracy of this software. The experimental setup and procedures for measuring in-situ dynamic strain through both DIC and strain gauge are proposed. The DIC results are close to those measured by strain gauge. This fact reveals that DIC is a practical and effective tool for in-situ dynamic strain measurement. Finally, the full-field in-situ dynamic strain of another specimen is measured by DIC, and the overall distribution of the strain in the measurement area is clearly shown.展开更多
Based on a digital image correlation（DIC）method with the measurements of a high speed crack＇s displacement and strain fields,a technique to accurately and automatically locate its crack tip has been developed.The c...Based on a digital image correlation（DIC）method with the measurements of a high speed crack＇s displacement and strain fields,a technique to accurately and automatically locate its crack tip has been developed.The crack tip is identified by finding the abrupt jump on the opening（or dislocation）curve of a point on the trace of the crack propagation,while the opening is measured through a virtual extensometer technique and the abrupt jump is identified by finding the peak on the curve.The method was verified using a specially designed experiment and applied to measure the critical crack tip opening angle of a rock sample.Because the involvement of analytical models has been avoided and then the good performance could be ensured for low resolution speckle images,this technique is expected to be very useful in the quantitative study of high speed cracks in experiments using high speed cameras.展开更多
The complete stress-strain characteristics of sandstone specimens were investigated in a series of quasistatic monotonic uniaxial compression tests.Strain patterns development during pre-and post-peak behaviours in sp...The complete stress-strain characteristics of sandstone specimens were investigated in a series of quasistatic monotonic uniaxial compression tests.Strain patterns development during pre-and post-peak behaviours in specimens with different aspect ratios was also examined.Peak stress,post-peak portion of stress-strain,brittleness,characteristics of progressive localisation and field strain patterns development were affected at different extents by specimen aspect ratio.Strain patterns of the rocks were obtained by applying three-dimensional(3D) digital image correlation(DIC) technique.Unlike conventional strain measurement using strain gauges attached to specimen,3D DIC allowed not only measuring large strains,but more importantly,mapping the development of field strain throughout the compression test,i.e.in pre-and post-peak regimes.Field strain development in the surface of rock specimen suggests that strain starts localising progressively and develops at a lower rate in pre-peak regime.However,in post-peak regime,strains increase at different rates as local deformations take place at different extents in the vicinity and outside the localised zone.The extent of localised strains together with the rate of strain localisation is associated with the increase in rate of strength degradation.Strain localisation and local inelastic unloading outside the localised zone both feature post-peak regime.展开更多
In thermal-structural testing of hypersonic materials and structures,deformation measurement on the front surface of an object directly heated by quartz lamps is highly necessary and very challenging.This work describ...In thermal-structural testing of hypersonic materials and structures,deformation measurement on the front surface of an object directly heated by quartz lamps is highly necessary and very challenging.This work describes a novel front-surface high-temperature deformation measurement technique,which adopts ultraviolet 3D digital image correlation(UV 3D-DIC)to observe and measure the high-temperature deformation fields on front surfaces directly heated by quartz lamps.Compared with existing blue light DIC techniques,the established UV 3D-DIC,which combines UV CCD camera,active UV illumination and bandpass filter imaging,can effectively suppress the strong disturbing light emitted by the quartz lamps and the heated sample itself during heating process.Two experiments were carried out to verify the robustness and accuracy of the developed technique:(1)direct observation of front surfaces of a hypersonic thermal structure sample heated from room temperature to 1050℃,and(2)front-surface thermal stain and coefficient of thermal expansion(CTE)measurement of an Inconel 718 sample up to 800℃.The well matched strain and CTE results with literature data show that UV 3D-DIC system is an effective technique for front-surface deformation measurement and has great potential in characterizing deformation response of hypersonic materials and structures subjected to transient aerodynamic heating.展开更多
This paper presents an incremental cutting method for evaluating the longitudinal residual stresses in a butt welded thin plate via combining the traditional residual stress measurement methods and the advanced optica...This paper presents an incremental cutting method for evaluating the longitudinal residual stresses in a butt welded thin plate via combining the traditional residual stress measurement methods and the advanced optical technique.The proposed approach,which can be called digital image correlation（DIC）-aided slitting technique,introduces a successive extension slot to a specimen and employs the DIC technique to measure the released displacement profiles of the cutting sections after each cutting increment.Then the displacement profiles are used to directly calculate the residual stress distributions up to the slot tip and hence,a stress distribution can be obtained after a cutting increment.Finally,all of the stress distributions are averaged to ultimately determine the original residual stress field.This method does not include any complex experimental operations or tedious derivation,and the resolution of stress variation is greatly improved by the continuous measurement of the released displacements.The presented method has been preliminarily verified by a specimen with residual stress introduced by a four-point bending test.The results show that residual stresses determined by the DIC-aided slitting technique agree well with those from finite element（FE） prediction.The residual stress in a friction stir welded aluminum specimen obtained by the presented technique is also consistent with the evaluations given by X-ray diffraction.Furthermore,the residual stresses obtained by the DIC-aided slitting technique demonstrate higher accuracy and stability than the evaluations derived by the DIC-aided contour method.展开更多
In this paper,fatigue damage development of 14MoV6-3(13HMF)power engineering steel was studied through different experimental and analytical approaches.The specimens machined from the as-received pipe were subjected t...In this paper,fatigue damage development of 14MoV6-3(13HMF)power engineering steel was studied through different experimental and analytical approaches.The specimens machined from the as-received pipe were subjected to fatigue loading and simultaneously monitored using the digital image correlation(DIC)technique.The damage development was analysed through microstructural observations of fracture surfaces and further described as a function of the fatigue damage parameter D and the fatigue damage measureφ.The combination of such parameters’evolution with the number of cycles to failure and the DIC technique enables a determination of separate stages of damage development.It was found that dynamics of damage could be effectively exposed within the first 100 cycles.展开更多
Soil desiccation cracking is a prevalent natural phenomenon that poses significant geotechnical and geoenvironmental challenges.Cracks typically initiate at surface defects such as air bubbles,large aggregates,tiny pi...Soil desiccation cracking is a prevalent natural phenomenon that poses significant geotechnical and geoenvironmental challenges.Cracks typically initiate at surface defects such as air bubbles,large aggregates,tiny pits,or uneven surfaces,where localized stress concentrations are readily induced.This study conducted a series of laboratory desiccation tests on slurry samples to investigate the initiation and propagation of desiccation cracks in the presence of varying types and quantities of surface defects.Digital image correlation(DIC)technology was employed to monitor the strain and displacement fields on the soil surface during the desiccation process.The results reveal that strain and displacement data derived from DIC can precisely predict the initiation sites and propagation directions of desiccation cracks.In samples with internal defects,cracks predominantly propagate through the defect,whereas external defects tend to initiate cracks along their edges.In samples with multiple defects,Y-shaped crack patterns generally form initially,followed by T-shaped and straight cracks,driven by the evolving stress field.The dynamic interplay between crack formation and tensile stress redistribution governs the initiation and propagation of desiccation cracks.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation(Grant No.22-19-00765)at the Perm National Research Polytechnic University.
文摘Creating conditions to implement equilibrium processes of damage accumulation under a predictable scenario enables control over the failure of structural elements in critical states.It improves safety and reduces the probability of catastrophic behavior in case of accidents.Equilibrium damage accumulation in some cases leads to a falling part(called a postcritical stage)on the material’s stress-strain curve.It must be taken into account to assess the strength and deformation limits of composite structures.Digital image correlation method,acoustic emission(AE)signals recording,and optical microscopy were used in this paper to study the deformation and failure processes of an orthogonal-layup composite during tension in various directions to orthotropy axes.An elastic-plastic deformation model was proposed for the composite in a plane stress condition.The evolution of strain fields and neck formation were analyzed.The staging of the postcritical deformation process was described.AE signals obtained during tests were studied;characteristic damage types of a material were defined.The rationality and necessity of polymer composites’postcritical deformation stage taken into account in refined strength analysis of structures were concluded.
基金the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 11672153, 11232008, and 11227801)
文摘Fused deposition modelling(FDM), a widely used rapid prototyping process, is a promising technique in manufacturing engineering. In this work, a method for characterizing elastic constants of FDM-fabricated materials is proposed. First of all, according to the manufacturing process of FDM, orthotropic constitutive model is used to describe the mechanical behavior. Then the virtual fields method(VFM) is applied to characterize all the mechanical parameters(Q, Q, Q, Q) using the full-field strain,which is measured by digital image correlation(DIC). Since the principal axis of the FDM-fabricated structure is sometimes unknown due to the complexity of the manufacturing process, a disk in diametrical compression is used as the load configuration so that the loading angle can be changed conveniently. To verify the feasibility of the proposed method, finite element method(FEM) simulation is conducted to obtain the strain field of the disk. The simulation results show that higher accuracy can be achieved when the loading angle is close to 30?. Finally, a disk fabricated by FDM was used for the experiment. By rotating the disk, several tests with different loading angles were conducted. To determine the position of the principal axis in each test, two groups of parameters(Q, Q, Q, Q) are calculated by two different groups of virtual fields. Then the corresponding loading angle can be determined by minimizing the deviation between two groups of the parameters. After that, the four constants(Q, Q, Q, Q) were determined from the test with an angle of 27?.
基金This study was supported financially by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant no.2018YFA0605902)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant no.52101300)+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant no.DUT21LK03)Joint Scientific Research Fund Project of DBJI(Grant no.ICR2102).
文摘The splitting test is a competitive alternative method to study the tensile strength of sea ice owing to its suitability for sampling.However,the approach was questioned to the neglect of local plastic deformation during the tests.In this study,splitting tests were performed on sea ice,with 32 samples subjected to the regular procedure and 8 samples subjected to the digital image correlation method.The salinity,density,and temperature were measured to determine the total porosity.With the advantage of the digital image correlation method,the full-field deformation of the ice samples could be determined.In the loading direction,the samples mainly deformed at the ice-platen contact area.In the direction vertical to the loading,deformation appears along the central line where the splitting crack occurs.Based on the distribution of the sample deformation,a modified solution was derived to calculate the tensile strength with the maximum load.Based on the modified solution,the tensile strength was further calculated together with the splitting test results.The results show that the tensile strength has a negative correlation with the total porosity,which agrees with previous studies based on uniaxial tension tests.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51575347,51405297 and 51204107)
文摘Application of digital image correlation(DIC) method to determination of in-situ dynamic strain is presented in this study. Firstly, an integrative software is programmed based on the DIC algorithms and pointwise least-squares fitting technique. Then, simulated speckle images are generated to study the computational accuracy of this software. The experimental setup and procedures for measuring in-situ dynamic strain through both DIC and strain gauge are proposed. The DIC results are close to those measured by strain gauge. This fact reveals that DIC is a practical and effective tool for in-situ dynamic strain measurement. Finally, the full-field in-situ dynamic strain of another specimen is measured by DIC, and the overall distribution of the strain in the measurement area is clearly shown.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11172039,11402023)the Fundamental Research Funding of BIT(20120142021)the State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics(LED2011B03)
文摘Based on a digital image correlation（DIC）method with the measurements of a high speed crack＇s displacement and strain fields,a technique to accurately and automatically locate its crack tip has been developed.The crack tip is identified by finding the abrupt jump on the opening（or dislocation）curve of a point on the trace of the crack propagation,while the opening is measured through a virtual extensometer technique and the abrupt jump is identified by finding the peak on the curve.The method was verified using a specially designed experiment and applied to measure the critical crack tip opening angle of a rock sample.Because the involvement of analytical models has been avoided and then the good performance could be ensured for low resolution speckle images,this technique is expected to be very useful in the quantitative study of high speed cracks in experiments using high speed cameras.
基金supported by the Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre whose activities are funded by the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centre Programme.This is DET CRC Document 2017/954
文摘The complete stress-strain characteristics of sandstone specimens were investigated in a series of quasistatic monotonic uniaxial compression tests.Strain patterns development during pre-and post-peak behaviours in specimens with different aspect ratios was also examined.Peak stress,post-peak portion of stress-strain,brittleness,characteristics of progressive localisation and field strain patterns development were affected at different extents by specimen aspect ratio.Strain patterns of the rocks were obtained by applying three-dimensional(3D) digital image correlation(DIC) technique.Unlike conventional strain measurement using strain gauges attached to specimen,3D DIC allowed not only measuring large strains,but more importantly,mapping the development of field strain throughout the compression test,i.e.in pre-and post-peak regimes.Field strain development in the surface of rock specimen suggests that strain starts localising progressively and develops at a lower rate in pre-peak regime.However,in post-peak regime,strains increase at different rates as local deformations take place at different extents in the vicinity and outside the localised zone.The extent of localised strains together with the rate of strain localisation is associated with the increase in rate of strength degradation.Strain localisation and local inelastic unloading outside the localised zone both feature post-peak regime.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11602011,11872009,and 11632010)the National S&T Major Project of China(No.ZX069)+1 种基金the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(No.2016ZD51034)the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China(No.2017M610029)。
文摘In thermal-structural testing of hypersonic materials and structures,deformation measurement on the front surface of an object directly heated by quartz lamps is highly necessary and very challenging.This work describes a novel front-surface high-temperature deformation measurement technique,which adopts ultraviolet 3D digital image correlation(UV 3D-DIC)to observe and measure the high-temperature deformation fields on front surfaces directly heated by quartz lamps.Compared with existing blue light DIC techniques,the established UV 3D-DIC,which combines UV CCD camera,active UV illumination and bandpass filter imaging,can effectively suppress the strong disturbing light emitted by the quartz lamps and the heated sample itself during heating process.Two experiments were carried out to verify the robustness and accuracy of the developed technique:(1)direct observation of front surfaces of a hypersonic thermal structure sample heated from room temperature to 1050℃,and(2)front-surface thermal stain and coefficient of thermal expansion(CTE)measurement of an Inconel 718 sample up to 800℃.The well matched strain and CTE results with literature data show that UV 3D-DIC system is an effective technique for front-surface deformation measurement and has great potential in characterizing deformation response of hypersonic materials and structures subjected to transient aerodynamic heating.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11272029)
文摘This paper presents an incremental cutting method for evaluating the longitudinal residual stresses in a butt welded thin plate via combining the traditional residual stress measurement methods and the advanced optical technique.The proposed approach,which can be called digital image correlation（DIC）-aided slitting technique,introduces a successive extension slot to a specimen and employs the DIC technique to measure the released displacement profiles of the cutting sections after each cutting increment.Then the displacement profiles are used to directly calculate the residual stress distributions up to the slot tip and hence,a stress distribution can be obtained after a cutting increment.Finally,all of the stress distributions are averaged to ultimately determine the original residual stress field.This method does not include any complex experimental operations or tedious derivation,and the resolution of stress variation is greatly improved by the continuous measurement of the released displacements.The presented method has been preliminarily verified by a specimen with residual stress introduced by a four-point bending test.The results show that residual stresses determined by the DIC-aided slitting technique agree well with those from finite element（FE） prediction.The residual stress in a friction stir welded aluminum specimen obtained by the presented technique is also consistent with the evaluations given by X-ray diffraction.Furthermore,the residual stresses obtained by the DIC-aided slitting technique demonstrate higher accuracy and stability than the evaluations derived by the DIC-aided contour method.
基金supported by the National Science Centre through Grant(No.2019/35/B/ST8/03151).
文摘In this paper,fatigue damage development of 14MoV6-3(13HMF)power engineering steel was studied through different experimental and analytical approaches.The specimens machined from the as-received pipe were subjected to fatigue loading and simultaneously monitored using the digital image correlation(DIC)technique.The damage development was analysed through microstructural observations of fracture surfaces and further described as a function of the fatigue damage parameter D and the fatigue damage measureφ.The combination of such parameters’evolution with the number of cycles to failure and the DIC technique enables a determination of separate stages of damage development.It was found that dynamics of damage could be effectively exposed within the first 100 cycles.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42525201,42230710,42407521).
文摘Soil desiccation cracking is a prevalent natural phenomenon that poses significant geotechnical and geoenvironmental challenges.Cracks typically initiate at surface defects such as air bubbles,large aggregates,tiny pits,or uneven surfaces,where localized stress concentrations are readily induced.This study conducted a series of laboratory desiccation tests on slurry samples to investigate the initiation and propagation of desiccation cracks in the presence of varying types and quantities of surface defects.Digital image correlation(DIC)technology was employed to monitor the strain and displacement fields on the soil surface during the desiccation process.The results reveal that strain and displacement data derived from DIC can precisely predict the initiation sites and propagation directions of desiccation cracks.In samples with internal defects,cracks predominantly propagate through the defect,whereas external defects tend to initiate cracks along their edges.In samples with multiple defects,Y-shaped crack patterns generally form initially,followed by T-shaped and straight cracks,driven by the evolving stress field.The dynamic interplay between crack formation and tensile stress redistribution governs the initiation and propagation of desiccation cracks.
