3780results about "Material strength using steady shearing forces" patented technology

A method of forming an adhesive force includes removing a seta from a living specimen, attaching the seta to a substrate, and applying the seta to a surface so as to establish an adhesive force between the substrate and the surface. The seta is applied to the surface with a force perpendicular to the surface. The seta is then pulled with a force parallel to the surface so as to preload the adhesive force of the seta.

The invention belongs to the petroleum exploration field, and concretely relates to a compact sandstone reservoir complex netted fracture prediction method. The method comprises the steps of: building a geological structure model and a fracture growth model; testing magnitudes and directions of ancient and modern crustal stresses; completing a rock mechanic parameter experiment; testing rock mechanic parameters and fracture stress sensitivities; developing a fracture rock multistage composite rupture criterion; performing a rock deformation physical test to obtain a peak value intensity; building a relation model between single axle state stress-strain and fracture bulk density; building a relation model between triaxial state stress-strain and fracture bulk density and occurrence; building a relation model between single axle state stress-strain and fracture bulk density; calculating and stimulating fracture parameters under modern conditions; and verifying the reliability of a fracture quantitative prediction result. The method can accurately obtain compact sandstone reservoir complex netted fracture parameters, and perform quantitative characterization, is suitable for quantitative prediction of any fracture mainly with a brittle reservoir, and reduces exploitation risks and costs.

The invention provides a three-way loading mechanical property test system of a multifunctional lining segment joint, which mainly comprises a self-balancing frame sub-system, a loading sub-system, a test-piece support sub-system, a test-piece transporting sub-system, a loading control sub-system and a data acquisition sub-system. The loading sub-system adopts a modular design and can finish a shield tunneling lining segment inter-ring shearing test, a bending moment transferring test, a longitudinal joint corner rigidity test, a longitudinal joint radial shearing test and the like by different combinations. The system of the invention can preferably imitate three-way stress states of the shield tunneling lining segment joint in actual conditions and can finish various different loading modes to obtain mechanical parameters of the shield tunneling lining segment joint and mechanical properties of other similar structures.

A system for evaluating the integrity of a bonded joint in an article includes a laser configured in a laser shock processing arrangement to perform a laser shock processing treatment on the article. A beam delivery system employs an articulated arm assembly to communicate the radiant energy emitted by the laser to a process head proximate the article. The laser shock processing treatment causes the formation of shockwaves that propagate through the article, inducing internal stress wave activity that characteristically interacts with the bonded joint. A sensor detects a stress wave signature emanating from the article, which is indicative of the integrity of the bond. A detector such as a non-contact electromagnetic acoustic transducer provides a measure of the stress wave signature in the form of surface motion measurements.

An interface device and method for interfacing instruments to a vascular access simulation system serve to interface peripherals in the form of mock or actual medical instruments to the simulation system to enable simulation of medical procedures. The interface device includes a catheter unit assembly for receiving a catheter needle assembly, and a skin traction mechanism to simulate placing skin in traction or manipulating other anatomical sites for performing a medical procedure. The catheter needle assembly and skin traction mechanism are manipulated by a user during a medical procedure. The catheter unit assembly includes a base, a housing, a bearing assembly and a shaft that receives the catheter needle assembly. The bearing assembly enables translation of the catheter needle assembly, and includes bearings that enable the shaft to translate in accordance with manipulation of the catheter needle assembly. The shaft typically includes an encoder to measure translational motion of a needle of the catheter needle assembly, while the interface device further includes encoders to measure manipulation of the catheter needle assembly in various degrees of freedom (e.g., translation, pitch and yaw) and the skin traction mechanism. Alternatively, the shaft may include an additional encoder to measure translational motion of an instrument inserted through the catheter needle assembly. The simulation system receives measurements from the interface device encoders and updates the simulation and display, while providing control signals to the force feedback device to enable application of force feedback to the catheter needle assembly.

A PEFS (Piezoelectric Finger Sensor) acts as an “electronic finger” capable of accurately and non-destructively measuring both the Young's compression modulus and shear modulus of tissues with gentle touches to the surface. The PEFS measures both the Young's compression modulus and shear modulus variations in tissue generating a less than one-millimeter spatial resolution up to a depth of several centimeters. This offers great potential for in-vivo early detection of diseases. A portable hand-held device is also disclosed. The PEF offers superior sensitivity.

A normal force gradient / shear force sensor device and measurement method for measuring internal stresses in tissues of a person supported by a chair or bed includes a planar matrix array of peripheral normal force sensors radially spaced from central shear force sensors, comprising an electrically conductive disk located within a circular opening bordered by circumferentially spaced apart electrodes. The disk and electrodes are located between upper and lower cover sheets made of a stretchable material such as polyurethane; one cover sheet is adhered to the disk and the other sheet is adhered to a support sheet for the electrodes. Motion between the cover sheets in response to shear forces exerted on the array causes the disk to press more or less tightly against the electrodes varying electrical conductance between the disk and electrodes proportionally to the magnitude and direction of the shear force. Each normal force sensor includes an electrically conductive film pressed between row and column conductors. Measurements of conductance values of pairs of sensor, which vary proportionally to normal forces exerted on the sensor, are used to calculate a gradient vector of normal forces exerted by a body part on the sensor array, which is combined with the shear force vectors in an algorithm to calculate internal reaction shear forces, e.g., on flesh near a bony prominence.

The invention discloses a three-axis test device and methods for sediments including gas hydrates, relating to a testing technology of sediments including gas hydrates. The device is used for making samples with different hydrate contents and uniform distribution by utilizing first circulation and saturation and then cooling of gas-containing saturated water in the samples and then carrying out three-axis shear on the sample in a certain confining pressure so as to determine the mechanical parameters of the samples. Based on the device, a set of methods for testing the three-axis mechanical parameters of the sediments including gas hydrates is formed, and the mechanical parameters measured by the method are closer to the natural state. The device and methods disclosed by the invention are used for carrying out an accurate simulation test on the marine gas hydrate forming process in a laboratory, providing technical assurance and support for the further study of physical and mechanical properties of the marine soil including gas hydrates, and promoting the further development of the research powerfully.

A device for measuring a mechanical property of a tissue includes a probe configured to perturb the tissue with movement relative to a surface of the tissue, an actuator coupled to the probe to move the probe, a detector configured to measure a response of the tissue to the perturbation, and a controller coupled to the actuator and the detector. The controller drives the actuator using a stochastic sequence and determines the mechanical property of the tissue using the measured response received from the detector. The probe can be coupled to the tissue surface. The device can include a reference surface configured to contact the tissue surface. The probe may include a set of interchangeable heads, the set including a head for lateral movement of the probe and a head for perpendicular movement of the probe. The perturbation can include extension of the tissue with the probe or sliding the probe across the tissue surface and may also include indentation of the tissue with the probe. In some embodiments, the actuator includes a Lorentz force linear actuator. The mechanical property may be determined using non-linear stochastic system identification. The mechanical property may be indicative of, for example, tissue compliance and tissue elasticity. The device can further include a handle for manual application of the probe to the surface of the tissue and may include an accelerometer detecting an orientation of the probe. The device can be used to test skin tissue of an animal, plant tissue, such as fruit and vegetables, or any other biological tissue.

The invention provides a device and a method for testing mechanical properties such as stretching, compression, bending, fracture toughness, shear strength and deformation of a high-temperature material in an ultrahigh temperature oxidation atmosphere in a temperature range from normal temperature to 1,800 DEG C. The experimental device is formed by assembling an electric control cabinet, a loading clamp, a load control and deformation sensing measurement system, a furnace body, a non-contact deformation measurement system, a display recording system and the like. According to the method, a furnace oxidation environment is uniformly and stably heated and kept through a heating body, so that the mechanical properties can be tested at temperature range from the room temperature to 1,800 DEG C, and mechanical property parameters such as stretching, compression, bending, shear strength and strain are captured by utilizing the contact sensing system and the non-contact measurement system. The device has the greatest characteristics of multiple testing parameters, high data measurement precision and high experimental repeatability.

A method of forming an adhesive force includes removing a seta from a living specimen, attaching the seta to a substrate, and applying the seta to a surface so as to establish an adhesive force between the substrate and the surface. The seta is applied to the surface with a force perpendicular to the surface. The seta is then pulled with a force parallel to the surface so as to preload the adhesive force of the seta.

The invention relates to the technical field of mine support, and particularly relates to a test bed for testing integrated mechanical properties of an anchor rod and a test method. The test bed comprises a pushing and mixing test mechanism, an installation pretension test mechanism, a bending load test mechanism, an axial load test mechanism, a shearing load test mechanism and an impact load test mechanism, wherein the pushing and mixing test mechanism and the installation pretension test mechanism are arranged on an installation test bed, and the bending load test mechanism, the axial load test mechanism, the shearing load test mechanism and the impact load test mechanism are arranged on a work test bed. By using the test bed, the installing and working process of the anchor rod can be simulated in a laboratory, and one or multiple combined external forces such as torsion, stretching, bending, shearing and impact are applied to the anchor rod; and mutually independent loading systems are adopted to apply corresponding loads to the anchor rod, so as to carry out independent experiments of various loads in the installing and working process of the anchor rod or a combined loading test of a plurality of any working stresses such as stretching, shearing and impact caused by installation stress and surrounding rock deformation, thereby effectively testing the integrated mechanical properties of the anchor rod under the combined action of various different external forces.

A fabricated microstructure includes a base and one or more nano-structures disposed on one or more portions of the base to adhere to a contact surface. The one or more portions of the base with the one or more nano-structures are located on the base such that, when the one or more nano-structures adhere to the contact surface and an external force is applied to peel the base from the contact surface, the one or more nano-structures in the one or more portions of the base facilitate or resist peeling of the nano-structures from the contact surface.

The invention discloses a multifunctional tilt table device used for testing the interfacial shear strength characteristics of a geotechnical synthetic material. The multifunctional tilt table device comprises a testing stand, an inclined plane control mechanism, a shearing box unit, a vertical loading mechanism and a measurement and control system, wherein the inclined plane control mechanism drives a tilted plate of the testing stand through a motor so as to allow the tilted plate to rotate to any inclination angle and can fix the tilted plate at a certain inclination angle through hydraulic jacks, shearing boxes are placed on concave guide rails on the surface of the tilted plate, a geotechnical synthetic material sample is installed between upper and lower shearing boxes, multiple layers of inclined shearing interfaces are formed through rotation of the tilted plate, the vertical loading mechanism comprises two loading devices used for short-term and long-term characteristic testing of the interfaces, the measurement and control system composed of a sensor, a control and acquisition system and a computer carries out real-time monitoring on stress and displacement of the upper and lower shearing boxes and the sample, determines a critical interface instability inclination angle according to displacement and pull-up curve abrupt change points and calculates shear strength of each interface according to stress analysis. The multifunctional tilt table device can be used for short-term and long-term characteristic testing of a single layer or multiple layers of interfaces.

A direct shear tester for both portable field test and indoor test and a sampling and testing method are provided. The tester comprises a sampling device, a portable vertical load system and a horizontal shear system. The testing method comprises burying a rigid frame together with a cruciform shear frame in the soil of a place to be test, digging out the whole soil containing the rigid frame and the cruciform shear frame to obtain an integrated sample with less interference, placing and fixing the integrated sample in a rigid frame base on a box-shaped frame, applying a vertical force by using the portable vertical load system on the box-shaped frame, and measuring the strength of the sample by using the shear frame. During the test process, the volume change of the sample in the vertical direction is not limited. The tester has simple structure, easy operation and good portability. The testing method employs flexible tension shear mode instead of the rigid top-bunt shear mode, overcomes the friction and sampling problems, and avoids the vertical pressure offset during the test process by using the portable vertical loading system, thereby increasing the test accuracy.

The present invention relates to a shear test device and test method of rock mass discontinuities under constant normal stiffness condition. The device includes: a base used for placing a test piece; a loading framework fixedly connected with the base; a shear loading system used for applying a shear force to the test piece; a normal loading system used for applying a normal pressure to the test piece; a normal displacement monitoring system used for measuring the magnitude of normal displacement of the test piece in real time; and a computer control system used for receiving the data of the normal displacement of the test piece in real time, and constantly adjusting the normal pressure applied by the normal loading system to the test piece according to the principle that the normal stiffness of the test piece is unchanged.

The invention relates to a combining ability and displacement measuring method and device of textile materials containing fiber, yarn, cloth, film and composite material, by which combining ability-displacement curve and stress-strain carve and measurement of associative characteristic value are obtained. The measuring device is consisted of multi-functional clamper suitable for textile materials, frame top beam, middle beam and under beam where sensor and multi-functional clamper can be installed, driving element controlled by middle beam, force and displacement signal collection card And computer with modules of program control and data processing. The invention includes the following properties that force sensor can be fitted on anywhere of the under beam, which can measure force value of moving terminal, and its structure is simple, operation is convenient and multi-functional clamper can be replaced fast and conveniently.

The invention discloses a device and a method for testing shear performance of an asphalt mixture. The shear strength and shear fatigue life of the asphalt mixture under different temperature conditions are tested by adopting a circular ring shearing test. The method comprises that: before the test, an asphalt mixture test-piece is subjected to heat preservation in a temperature control box at a preset test temperature for over 6 hours; in the test, the asphalt mixture test-piece is arranged on a circular ring, and is loaded through a pressure head to cause shear failure so as to form a conical shear failure surface, and the shear strength of the asphalt mixture is calculated; and according to requirements, a specific load in a range of 0.1 to 0.9 time of failure load is selected to perform a repeated loading fatigue test on parallel test-pieces, the loading waveform is sine waves, the frequency is 10Hz, and the shear fatigue life of the asphalt mixture at different stress ratios is read out. The test method has important significance for studying the shear performance of the asphalt mixture and designing and evaluating the material of the asphalt mixture.

The invention relates to a material mechanical property in-situ testing system and method in a dynamic and static load spectrum, and belongs to the field of mechanical tests. The system integrates the following functions: a static testing function of biaxial drawing and shearing in an orthogonal plane, a shearing static testing function, a double shaft pull-pull mode fatigue testing function, and a static / dynamic press testing function. A complicated static / dynamic load spectrum can be established. Multi-mode composite load mechanical property evaluation can be performed on a film material or a block material, for example: high-cycle fatigue tests based on double-shaft pre-stretching load and impact press tests based on double-shaft stretching-shearing pre-load. At the same time, special defects are pre-fabricated on the central area and cross shaped arm area of a test piece; the analysis functions of a variable-zoom optical imaging system or a digital speckle strain analysis system can be utilized; the provided system and method can also be used to research the deformation behavior and cracking expansion rules of micro defects in a component under a multi-dimensional stress, and an evaluation tool is provided for performance degradation rules of products and optimized preparation method of materials.

A load transducer is disclosed herein. The load transducer includes a body portion having a plurality of sides, the plurality of sides of the body portion including a first side; a plurality of beam portions including a first beam portion and a second beam portion, the first beam portion being coupled to the body portion, the second beam portion being coupled to the first beam portion, and the second beam portion extending along the first side of the body portion; and at least one load cell disposed on one or more of the plurality of beam portions, the at least one load cell configured to measure at least one force or moment component of a load applied to the load transducer. A force measurement assembly including a plurality of load transducers with first and second beam portions is also disclosed herein.

A load transducer is disclosed herein. The load transducer includes a plurality of beam portions connected to one another in succession, the plurality of beam portions being arranged in a circumscribing pattern whereby a central one of the plurality of beam portions is at least partially circumscribed by one or more outer ones of the plurality of beam portions; and at least one load cell disposed on one of the plurality of beam portions, the at least one load cell configured to measure at least one force or moment component of a load applied to the load transducer. A force measurement assembly including a plurality of load transducers with beam portions arranged in a circumscribing pattern is also disclosed herein.

A microcomputer-controlled electro-hydraulic servo rock tri-axial dynamic shear-seepage coupling multifunctional test method belongs to the technical fields of rock mechanics and engineering technology and is characterized in that a test apparatus is composed of a loading system, a sealing system, a multiphase fluid injection system, an acoustic emission monitoring system, a deformation monitoringsystem and a data collection system. The test method not only solves technical problems that a tri-axial pressure chamber cannot be used for performing large displacement shear-seepage coupling of rocks under high confining pressure and high seepage pressure, and also can achieve various extended functions on the basis of the technology. The apparatus can achieve servo control loading of force, displacement and strain rate in shear direction and injection seepage of a multiphase fluid during dynamic shear. In addition, the apparatus is equipped with a temperature control system for performingconstant temperature control to the tri-axial pressure chamber at 0-200 DEG C; therefore, a series of extended experiments of dynamic shear-seepage coupling features of rocks under effect of temperature can be carried out.

The invention relates to an earth-structure interaction contact surface shearing test visualization device. The device mainly comprises an upper shear box (1), a lengthened lower shear box (2), a perspective window (3), a camera head (15), a connecting seat (16) and the like. The device shoots the shear band deformation and the earth grain change process in the whole shear test process by using the camera chain to acquire a series of shear band digital images at different time points and a whole-journey video, and provides references for quantitative analysis tests on the range, deformation and thickness of the earth-structure contact surface shear band. The invention has the characteristics of reasonable structure, convenient disassembly, high test load, large sample dimension, visualized shear test process, automatic data acquisition and the like, and ensures the rigidity of the shear box while realizing the overall visualized observation on the contact surface shear band. The invention can be widely used in contact surface mechanical parameter testing, and qualitative and quantitative analysis on the macroscopic and microscopic properties of the shear band under the earth-structure interaction in geotechnical engineering.

This invention relates to one constant pushing test machine in metal materials stretching test technique field, which comprises machine rack, drive part and force test part, wherein, the rack is composed of socket, stand column, level beam and rack leg; the stand column is fixed onto socket with top end connected to beam to form one frame to fix drive and test parts; the drive part passes level beam fixed onto rack beam through drive screw or drive screw bar; the force test part is fixed on down end of drive part to realize puling and compressing data test.

A device and a method are disclosed for testing a curved panel assembly, which simulates a segment of an aircraft fuselage barrel section, subjected to combined loading. The device includes an axial load head assembly attached to the test panel assembly via one axial load fitting and configured to apply an axial load to the test panel assembly, and an axial-torsion reaction box connected to the axial load head assembly via linear journal bearing assemblies, where the axial-torsion reaction box is configured to be rotated by a pair of torsional loading systems to apply a torsional load to the test panel assembly. The device also includes a gore section attached to hoop load fittings of the test panel assembly, configured to provide degrees of freedom that constrain the test panel assembly to load and deflect as it would naturally in an actual fuselage barrel, form a plenum box to apply an internal pressure load, and provide hoop loading systems that complete the full hoop load application to the test panel assembly. A fixed reaction box attached to the test panel assembly via another axial load fitting rigidly attaches the test panel to the self-reacting frame, completing the internal load path of the overall system.

Described herein are systems, apparatuses and methods for the design and use of a suction-controlled box for the measurement of stress-dependent soil and water characteristics, shear strength, volume changes and consolidation characteristics from a single unsaturated soil specimen. The suction-controlled box can include a suction control part and a mechanical loading part, which can apply various suctions and mechanical loadings to test a specimen for a full range of suctions. The suction-controlled box can also include a helical water compartment that can flush diffused air bubbles.

A new capacitive sensor array comprises a first plurality of conductors separated by a compressible insulator from a second plurality of conductors lying in a second plane parallel to the first plane. The second plurality of conductors are paired to partially overlap the first plurality of conductors, two by one in sets, whereby a shear force applied in a plane parallel to the conductor array will cause capacitance between the first and second conductors to change. Serially sampling the two by one sets for changes in capacitance provides information on both the magnitude and direction of shear. Moreover, forces applied perpendicular to the planes causes the insulator to compress, thus also changing the capacitances of the two by one sets of the sensor array. In the preferred embodiment, the imbalance of voltages between the paired conductors is applied to a differential amplifier to sense shear magnitude and direction. Compression force appears as an increase in peak voltage magnitude in both of the paired conductors.

The invention relates to a test method for simulating the shear resistant strength change of foundation pit precipitation soil. The test method comprises the following steps of: firstly, preparing an original-shape soil sample by using a fret saw, a soil cutter, a soil cutting disk, and the like; secondly, carrying out exhausting and water injection on the sample in a vacuum tank to be saturated;thirdly, mounting a test sample in which a latex film is sleeved in a three-axle pressure chamber; fourthly, solidifying the test sample at two phases through a three-axle ambient pressure system, wherein the test sample is restored to be in a natural self-weight stress state of a soil body by using the first-time solidification and the stress state of the soil body subjected to precipitation is simulated by using secondary solidification; fifthly, carrying out an un-drained shear test on the test sample through an axial loading system; and sixthly, after the test is ended, closing a motor and a valve and detaching the test sample. According to the test method disclosed by the invention, the influence of the reduction for water content of the foundation pit precipitation soil, the increase of effective stress and soil solidification and compaction on the soil shear resistant stretch is considered so as to provide reference for accurately selecting shear resistant strength indexes of the foundation pit precipitation soil and further provide guarantee for designing and constructing deep foundation pits of soft soil water-rich stratum safely, economically and reasonably.

A load transducer system is disclosed herein. The load transducer system includes a load transducer and a data processing device. The load transducer has a load transducer frame portion configured to elastically deform when a load is applied to the load transducer; and one or more deformation sensing elements, disposed on the load transducer frame portion, sensitive to one or more respective force or moment components of the load. The data processing device is operatively coupled to the one or more deformation sensing elements of the load transducer, the data processing device is configured to determine one or more output forces or moments from one or more respective output signals of the one or more deformation sensing elements, to determine one or more deformation compensation parameters for the load transducer system, and to correct the one or more output forces or moments using the one or more deformation compensation parameters.