Modeling and dynamics of adaptive structures featuring multifunctional materials

多功能材料自适应结构的建模和动力学

• 批准号: RGPIN-2021-03482
• 负责人: Sedaghati, Ramin
• 金额: $ 4.66万
• 依托单位: Concordia University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=760522
• 关键词: Modeling; dynamics; adaptive; structures; featuring

Adaptive structures are capable of modifying their dynamic response characteristics in a controlled manner to accommodate unpredictable environmental changes. The application of this emerging and enabling multidisciplinary technology is vast ranging from space structures and transportation systems to civil infrastructure, defense and medical systems. The overall and long-term objectives is to cultivate a comprehensive research program on smart material systems to develop the next generation of light-weight adaptive structures which can provide desired functionality by exploiting the coupling properties of smart materials. The proposed research explores the development of smart adaptive structures featuring multifunctional magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs). This is motivated primarily by the substantial and growing interest in MAEs to control shock and vibration semi-actively and to provide soft actuation. Among smart materials, MAEs are truly multifunctional materials as they can vary their dynamic properties (stiffness and damping) semi-actively as well as providing active actuation due to their inherent magnetostriction effect. These unique properties, combined with their unique features such as flexibility, fail-safe, fast-response (less than few milliseconds) and low-power requirement, have made MAEs revolutionary smart materials for the development of next generation of adaptive structures for wide range of applications. The field-dependent modulus and damping properties of MAEs have made them ideal smart materials for the development of high-bandwidth adaptive energy absorption devices. Such novel smart devices can be integrated with structural systems in ground, aerospace and marine vehicles to mitigate the transmitted vibration and shock in the real time under unpredictable environmental conditions. Recently developed MAEs with hard magnetic particles (H-MAEs) have also shown reduced modulus by reversing the direction of the magnetic field which can significantly enhance the control effectiveness of these unique smart materials. Moreover, H-MAEs, owing to their significant magnetostriction effect and low-power consumption, offer enormous potential to become the marvel of technologies leading to next generation of artificial muscles and soft actuators in microfluidic, biomedical and robotics applications. To develop and control MAE-based adaptive systems and structures, it is of paramount importance to understand the dynamic response and functionality of different types of MAEs under varying controlled magnetic field and environmental conditions. These will be addressed through an in-depth experimental characterization and development of high-fidelity magneto-viscoelastic models which can accurately predict the viscoelastic and magnetostriction properties of MAE. The proposed research program will also facilitate developments in new generation of smart controllable magnetoactive materials with improved MR and magnetostriction effects.

自适应结构能够以受控的方式修改其动态响应特征，以适应不可预测的环境变化。这种新兴和启用多学科技术的应用范围从太空结构和运输系统到民用基础设施，国防和医疗系统。总体和长期目标是培养有关智能材料系统的综合研究计划，以开发下一代轻质自适应结构，这些结构可以通过利用智能材料的耦合属性来提供所需的功能。拟议的研究探讨了具有多功能磁性弹性体（MAES）的智能自适应结构的发展。这主要是由对MAE的浓厚兴趣和日益增长的兴趣，以半主动地控制冲击和振动并提供软驱动。在智能材料中，MAE是真正的多功能材料，因为它们可以半积极地改变其动态特性（刚度和阻尼），并且由于其固有的磁曲线效应而提供了主动致动。这些独特的属性以及它们的独特功能，例如灵活性，故障安全，快速响应（小于几毫秒）和低功率要求，使MAES革命性的智能材料为广泛应用的下一代自适应结构开发开发。 MAES的磁场依赖模量和阻尼特性使它们成为开发高带宽自适应能量吸收设备的理想智能材料。这种新型的智能设备可以与地面，航空航天和船用车辆中的结构系统集成，以在无法预测的环境条件下实时减轻传输的振动和冲击。最近开发的具有硬磁性颗粒（H-MAE）的MAE也通过逆转磁场的方向来显示降低模量，从而显着提高了这些独特的智能材料的控制效果。此外，H-MAE由于其明显的磁性效果和低功率消耗，因此具有巨大的潜力，成为导致下一代人工肌肉和软体流体，生物医学和机器人应用中的软肌的奇迹。为了开发和控制基于MAE的自适应系统和结构，在不同的受控磁场和环境条件下，了解不同类型的MAE的动态响应和功能至关重要。这些将通过深入的实验表征和高保真磁磁弹性模型的开发来解决，该模型可以准确预测MAE的粘弹性和磁性特性。拟议的研究计划还将促进新一代的智能可控磁性材料的发展，并具有改善的MR和磁结构效应。