Published in Measurement Science and Technology
A microstrip air line system for measuring the complex permittivity of anisotropic materials in the band from 0.3 to 1 GHz is proposed. The multireflect-thru method is used to calibrate the measurement system in the whole band with a single microstrip air line without suffering from the limited space resolution of time-gating technique. During the ...
Published in Measurement Science and Technology
We measured cortical bone thickness of long bones by ultrasonic guided waves for diagnosis of osteoporosis. Current studies were limited to the detection of isotropic cortical bone with uniform thickness, which did not reflect the actual situation. This paper considered the anisotropic cortical bone and proposed an inversion method for measuring th...
Due to the complexity of the composite structure, analyzing the material failure process of carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) is fairly difficult, particularly for the machining process. Peridynamic theory, a new branch of solid mechanics, is a useful tool for dealing with discontinuities. This study presents an ordinary state-based peridynam...
The anisotropic laminate problem is difficult to solve exactly through the existing composite laminate theories. To fill this research gap, the present thesis performs a 3D analysis on anisotropic plates and laminates with various boundary conditions through the state space method (SSM). The idea of current research originates from some previous st...
The fundamental solutions (Green's functions) of linear elasticity for an infinite and isotropic media are ubiquitous in interactive graphics applications that cannot afford the computational costs of volumetric meshing and finite-element simulation. For instance, the recent work of de Goes and James [2017] leveraged these Green's functions to form...
The electronic structure and functionality of 2D materials is highly sensitive to structural morphology, opening the possibility for manipulating material properties, but also making predictable and reproducible functionality challenging. Black phosphorus (BP), a corrugated orthorhombic 2D material, has in-plane optical absorption anisotropy critic...
In this study, a linear ultrasonic motor (USM) with carbon-fiber-reinforced/poly-phenylene-sulfide (PPS/CF) was developed and the feasibility of using PPS/CF to achieve a lightweight USM was tested. Here, anisotropic Young’s moduli of PPS/CF possibly enhance the driving force when the slider’s moving direction is orthogonal to the carbon-fibers’ fi...
High-performance alloy materials are increasingly considered for various engineering applications due to their combination of desirable properties. However, the guided wave-based structural health monitoring of alloys is often challenged by their strong anisotropic nature, which makes it difficult to calculate the guided wave behavior and associate...
Graphene aerogels have attracted much attention as a promising material for various applications. The unusually high intrinsic thermal conductivity of individual graphene sheets makes an obvious contrast with the thermal insulating performance of assembled 3D graphene materials. We report the preparation of anisotropy 3D graphene aerogel films (GAF...
Corrugated cardboard has waved cores with small flutes that prevent the use of detailed numerical models of whole structures. Many homogenization methods in the literature overcome this drawback by defining equivalent homogeneous plates with the same mechanical behaviour at a macro-mechanical scale. However, few homogenization works have considered...
