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In this paper, a constitutive description of the true stress-strain behaviors of nano-twinned metals has been proposed. The size effects of nano-scale twin boundaries (TBs) and ultra-fine grain boundaries (GBs) are considered in the athermal stress. The evolution of the dislocation density with strain under the influence of strain rate and temperature is introduced in the thermal stress based on our previous meso-scale constitutive model. The new model can effectively describe the strength transition regime in nano-twinned metals. The proposed model’s predictions of true stress-strain relation curves for nano-twinned copper are compared with the experimental results of uniaxial tension tests for validation. The comparisons show that the previous models in literature for the dependence of initial yield strength on twin spacing cannot describe the experimental data correctly when the twin spacing tends to zero; however, the phenomenological model proposed in this paper for the twin spacing depending relation is theoretically rational and can well describe the experimental data in the whole range of twin spacing.

Growing evidence suggests that vascular risk factors (VRF) contribute to cognitive decline. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of VRF on the conversion from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia.

The high-speed metal cutting process is analyzed by finite element (FE) method in order to understand the effects of the cutting speed on the thermomechanical responses of workpiece materials. The reliability of numerical simulation is firstly validated by comparing the simulated cutting force with experimental data. Then a series of FE simulations are carried out to reveal the effects of the cutting speed on three key cutting state variables. The cutting force varies with the cutting speed and shows a minimum inflexion at 10 m/s. The maximum temperature in the secondary deformation zone increases gradually with the cutting speed and finally tends to a steady value. The residual stress decreases with the cutting speed as a whole. Thus high speed cutting can improve surface machining precision of product. Besides, it is found that the high residual stress mainly concentrates in the topmost surface layer with a depth of 0.1 mm and sharply decreases to a low level beyond the layer.

This paper aims to make piezoelectric ceramic actuator self-sense its own displacement in the absence of independent sensor. It is derived from the basic piezoelectric equation that the free charge on the wafer of piezoelectric ceramic actuator contains displacement information. So a displacement self-sensing method based on integrate circuit is presented. Voltage driving circuit for the piezoelectric ceramic actuator and integrated circuit for gathering free charge are designed. Based on the proposed compound circuits, the actuator can sense its own displacement while actuation. It is convenient to adjust the circuit and easy to acquire sensitive signal by using this method, and the impedance mismatching problem met in bridge method is overcome. The experimental results show that piezoelectric self-sensing actuator can effectively measure its displacement signal under the conditions of different wave form of driving voltage and different driving voltage frequency.

In this paper, a new approach to damage tolerance determination, which is related to the critical rupture strain, is proposed for cylindrical shells subjected to inner transient high-pressure loading. The relation of damage variable and circumferential plastic strain is deduced on the basis of a damage evolution equation as well as a simplified dynamic viscoplastic constitutive equation. The value of damage variable can be obtained then if the strain is known by strain measurement, and the damage tolerance just corresponds to the rupture strain of the structure. Further, the damage tolerance has been applied as the strain-based rupture criterion in the FE simulation of the dynamic fracture process for transient-pressurized cylindrical shells. Especially for the notched shells, the strain concentration effect of notches on the rupture criterion is analyzed quantitatively.

Fourier transform profilometry in 3-D measurement based on wavelet digital filter is presented in this paper. Before phase demodulation, original modulated grating image is handled with wavelet transform in order to remove the background components and high frequency. This method resolves spectrum overlapping at some extent and reduces the requirement of low-pass filter.

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