高橋 航圭(タカハシ コウスケ) |
工学研究院 機械・宇宙航空工学部門 機械材料システム |
准教授 |
Scaling effect of adhesion force at detachment was clarified by a probe-tack test using a glass sphere at mm-scale and an AFM cantilever.
The dynamic buckling tests using cylindrical tubes with and without internal pellets were carried out to investigate the impact behavior. Various materials of cylindrical tubes and pellets were used to examine the buckling mode and the maximum loads at several impact velocities. In the case of low Young's modulus and low yield strength pellets, the influence of pellets was small because of the small load share of pellets, so the "W" shape of deformation shapes and the maximum impact loads were almost the same of those of empty tubes. On the other hand, the tubes with high Young's modulus and high yield strength pellets indicated different behaviors compared to the empty tubes because of the large load share of pellets. At low impact velocity, pellets with high yield strength caused the strengthening effect and increased the lateral stiffness for tubes. As a result, the pellets led to increase of impact load, decrease of deformation and change of buckling mode to the "S" shape. At high velocity, the strengthening effect of pellets made the tubes stiffer, but led to fracture by the constraint effect of pellets on plastic deformation. The deformation of tubes was compared to Euler's equation, and it was confirmed that the Euler's equation could be applied at the low impact velocity. However, it was not effective for the high velocity impact because of local deformation at the impact side. FEM analyses will be conducted to clarify the deformation shape, maximum load and the mechanism of fracture at high impact velocity as a further study.
Wetting-induced attraction are widely observed in microstructures where liquid flows along solid surfaces. Unexpected bending or collapse occurs if wetting-induced forces are neglected in the structural design, such as high aspect ratio pillars in the process of wet-etching. In this study, a simple experiment is designed to capture the evolving deformation of a cantilever beam due to capillary flow. A pair of polymer plates fixed at one end with a small gap is submerged into liquid, so that capillary rise between the plates and their attraction can be simultaneously observed. The plate dimension is sub-millimeter scale, which is rather large in observation of capillarity, in order to clearly capture deformation process of the plates until their contacts. Different types of liquids are prepared to investigate the influence of wettability, surface tension, and viscosity. Velocity of capillary flow is also considered by changing submergence rate of the plate. The experimental results of plate deflection are compared to analytical estimation obtained from an equation of motion for capillary rise and an equilibrium between capillary attraction and elastic force of plate. This estimation corresponded well with experimental results regardless of liquid types. In addition, the relationship between plate deflection and material constants is derived in a non-dimensional form. Therefore, plate deformation due to wetting-induced attraction, considering velocity of capillary flow, became predictable only from dimension of plates and material constants.