In-situ testing equipment for testing micromechanical properties of material in multi-load and multi-physical field coupled condition

• US 10,012,576 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2014
• Issued: 07/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jilin University
• Original Assignee: Jilin University
• Inventors: Zhao, Hongwei, Ren, Luquan, Li, Jianping, Huang, Hu, Zhang, Panfeng, Hu, Xiaoli, Cheng, Hongbing, Fang, Daining, Ma, Zhichao, Zhuang, Qingwei, Gao, Jing, Dong, Xiaolong, Tang, Kehong, Zhang, Fu, Zou, Qing, Zhu, Yuxiang, Dong, Jingshi, Fan, Zunqiang, Hu, Yong, Shang, Tao
• Primary Examiner(s): Larkin, Daniel S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Singer, David L
• Application Number:
  US15/024,119
• Publication Number:
  US 20160216182A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,583 Days
• Field of Search: 73602, 73856-857, 702 42- 43, 374 45- 52
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 3/04 Chucks
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 3/06 Special adaptations of indicating or recording means
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 3/08 by applying steady tensile or compressive forces G01N3/28 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 3/20 by applying steady bending forces G01N3/26, G01N3/28 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 3/22 by applying steady torsional forces G01N3/26, G01N3/28 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 3/26 Investigating twisting or coiling properties
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 3/32 by applying repeated or pulsating forces

Abstract

An in-situ testing equipment for testing micromechanical properties of a material in a multi-load and multi-physical field coupled condition is disclosed. The equipment comprises a frame supporting module, a tension/compression-low cycle fatigue module, a torsioning module (21), a three-point bending module (6), an impressing module (33), a thermal field and magnetic field application module (34), an in-situ observation module (32) and a clamp body module (22). The testing equipment is capable of realizing applications of five different types of loads including tension/compression, low cycle fatigue, torsion, bending and impressing, performing an intensive study on micromechanical properties of the material in the multi-load and multi-physical field coupled condition by using built-in electric, thermal and magnetic application modules and the in-situ observation module, and acquiring relations between deformation behavior, mechanism of damage, performance weakening of the material, applied loads and material properties.

Claims

1. An in-situ testing equipment configured for testing micromechanical properties of a material in a multi-load and multi-physical field coupled condition, comprising a frame supporting module, a tension/compression-low cycle fatigue module, a torsioning module (21), a three-point bending module (6), an impressing module (33), a thermal field and magnetic field application module (34), an in-situ observation module (32) and a clamp body module (22), wherein:

the frame supporting module provides a structural support for the whole testing equipment;

the tension/compression-low cycle fatigue module is arranged at upper and lower ends of the testing equipment;

the torsioning module (21) is directly arranged at a front end of the tension/compression-low cycle fatigue module;

the three-point bending module (6), the impressing module (33) and the thermal field and magnetic field application module (34) are disposed on a support post at one side of the whole testing equipment through a common replacing component;

the in-situ observation module is disposed on another support post at the other side of the testing equipment;

the clamp body module is connected to a front segment of the torsioning module, so as to clamp a test piece;

an overall structure of the testing equipment is configured in a vertically symmetrical arrangement achieved by using four support posts;

two identical servo hydraulic cylinders (10) and two torsioning modules (21) are located at the upper and the lower ends of the testing equipment respectively and are used to perform a symmetrical tension/compression test and a symmetrical torsion test on the test piece (23) positioned centrally, to ensure that the geometrical center of the test piece (23) is maintained stationary during tension/compression and torsion tests, and to facilitate an in-situ dynamic observation on performances including deformation and damage of the material during the test;

the testing equipment is capable of realizing applications of five different types of loads including tension/compression, low cycle fatigue, torsion, bending and impressing, to perform an intensive study on micromechanical properties of the material in the multi-load and multi-physical field coupled condition by using built-in electric, thermal and magnetic application modules and the in-situ observation module, and to acquire relations between deformation behavior, mechanism of damage, performance weakening of the material, applied loads and material properties;

the tension/compression-low cycle fatigue module comprises the servo hydraulic cylinders (10) and a hydraulic cylinder fixing sleeve (13);

by means of a mounting flange, the servo hydraulic cylinder (10) and the hydraulic cylinder fixing sleeve (13) mate with each other with a tolerance between an axle of the servo hydraulic cylinder and a hole of the hydraulic cylinder fixing sleeve, so as to ensure mounting accuracy, and are fastened by a second screw (11) and a second resilient washer (12);

the hydraulic cylinder fixing sleeve (13) is rigidly fixed to the upper and lower support plates (7, 103) through a third screw (14) and a third resilient washer (15);

the tension/compression-low cycle fatigue module utilizes two high-accuracy hydraulic cylinders (10) as a power source and accurately controls a displacement in the tension/compression low cycle fatigue process through controlling an amount of oil flowing into the servo hydraulic cylinders (10) and flow direction of the oil through a multi-channel servo controller; and

the torsioning module (21) comprises a torsion servo motor (44), a worm gear reducer and a ball spline (47);

an output shaft of the torsion servo motor (44) is connected with a worm shaft (40) through a first key (42);

a worm (41) and the worm shaft (40) are connected with each other through a key;

a second sleeve (43) is used to maintain an axial position of an outer ring of a rolling bearing;

the worm shaft (40) is supported within a mounting hole of a worm housing (35) through a first rolling bearing (38);

an outer spline housing of the ball spline (47) is supported within the mounting hole of the worm housing (35) through a second sleeve (49) and a second rolling bearing (46);

a worm wheel (50) is connected to the outer spline housing of the ball spline (47) through a second key (52);

one end of the ball spline (47) is connected with a rod of the servo hydraulic cylinder (10) through a coupling sleeve (8) and an expansion sleeve (9), and the other end thereof is connected to the clamp body module (22) through an expansion sleeve;

the torsioning module (21) utilizes the servo motor as a power source, and a torsion angle is output to a ball spline shaft connected with the rod of the hydraulic cylinder after reduction in speed via a worm gear having a large one-stage reduction gear ratio, so as to drive the rod and the clamp body module located at a front end to rotate as a whole.

2. The in-situ testing equipment according to claim 1, wherein

the three-point bending module (6) comprises a bending servo motor (54), a transmission assembly comprising a ball screw (60) and a lead screw nut (61), a pressing head (64), and first and second guide rail-slider assemblies (71, 72);

the bending servo motor (54) is fixedly connected to a motor flange (57) by a one-stage reducer (55);

power is transmitted to the ball screw (60) via a coupling (58) from an output shaft of the reducer (55) and converted by the lead screw nut (61) into a linear movement of the pressing head (64) for bending;

the first guide rail-slider assembly (71) is connected with a bending bottom plate (70), such that the three-point bending module (6) floats as a whole relative to a support plate (74) for the bending bottom plate, so as to achieve an internal force type bending;

a nut coupling member (62) is guided by the second guide rail-slider assembly (72) to ensure linearity of displacement of the pressing head;

the impressing module (33) comprises an impression servo motor (75), a leading screw-nut assembly (89), piezoelectric ceramic (93), a flexible hinge (81), a force sensor (84), a capacitive displacement sensor (83) and a diamond impressing head (87);

the impression servo motor (75) is mounted on a first bottom plate (77) through a flange (76);

a second bottom plate (78) is mounted on the first bottom plate (77) through a LM guide rail-slider (96) for direction guidance;

a support (79) for the displacement sensor is mounted via a manual translation platform (95) on a support (80) for the manual translation platform;

the support (80) for the manual translation platform is fixed to the second bottom plate (78);

the manual translation platform (95) is used to adjust an initial distance between a probe of the capacitive displacement sensor (83) and a reflective plate (85), and the probe of the displacement sensor is fixedly clamped by an adjusting screw (82);

the capacitive displacement sensor (83) is placed within a recess located at a front end of the support (79) for the displacement sensor;

the adjusting screw (82) is used to fixedly clamp the capacitive displacement sensor (83);

the second bottom plate (78) is fixedly connected with the manual translation platform (95);

the diamond impressing head (87) is mounted at one end of the force sensor (84) through a sleeve (86) for the impressing head, the other end of the force sensor is connected to the flexible hinge (81) through an external mounting bolt;

a fastening screw (92) is used to fix the diamond impressing head (87);

the piezoelectric ceramic (93) is mounted within a recess of the flexible hinge (81) and pre-fastened by a pre-pressing pad (94);

the flexible hinge (81) is connected with the second bottom plate (78);

power output from the impression servo motor (75) is converted into a linear movement through a leading screw-nut assembly (89) and transmitted b a seat (90) for the leading screw-nut to the flexible hinge (81) so as to be used as a coarse adjusting displacement during impressing;

an actual impressing displacement is output by the piezoelectric ceramic;

the leading screw-nut assembly (89) is fixed at both ends thereof by a second EK support (88) and an EF support base (91);

the whole impressing module is mounted on a stationary support plate (5) used as a common mounting and replacing component through the support plate (74) for the bending bottom plate; and

the clamp body module (22) comprises a clamp (97), a back plate (98) for the clamp, a body (99) of the clamp, a tension-torsion force sensor (100), a connecting body (101) and a lower connection-expansion sleeve (102);

the lower connection-expansion sleeve (102) is connected with an output shaft of the torsioning module, and a tension force is provided through adjusting a screw on the back plate (98) for the clamp when the test piece is fixedly clamped.

3. The in-situ testing equipment according to claim 1, wherein

the in-situ observation module is disposed on the frame supporting module;

the in-situ observation module comprises an instrument for testing and representing material properties;

the instrument comprises a 3D micro-imaging assembly having a large depth of field and an ultrasonic inspection device, and is capable of dynamically monitoring deformation and damage mechanism of the material, microstructural changes and transition of properties during the entire test in the complex mechanical loads and multi-physical field coupled condition.

4. The in-situ testing equipment according to claim 1, wherein

the three-point bending module (6), the impressing module (33), the thermal field and magnetic field application module (34) are interchangeably arranged through a stationary support plate (5) used as a common mounting and replacing component, such that space required for arranging the modules are saved, and range of test can be enlarged as much as possible, while ensuring application of the coupled multi-load and multi-physical field;

and

the impressing module (33) is integrated on the frame supporting module through the stationary support plate (5) used as the common mounting and replacing component, such that an impressing test may be performed on the test piece in various states in which stress fields and physical fields are coupled in different ways.

5. The in-situ testing equipment according to claim 1, wherein the torsioning module (21) separates a tensioning/compressing movement in an axial direction from a torsioning movement by using a worm gear reducing mechanism and a cooperative ball spline;

such that the tension/compression-low cycle fatigue module and the torsioning module (21) are independent from each other and do not interfere with each other.

6. The in-situ testing equipment according to claim 1, wherein in the three-point bending module (6), a first guide rail-slider assembly (71) is mounted under the bended bottom plate (70), such that the three-point bending module above can float above a support plate (74) for the bending bottom plate, and thereby an internal force type three-point bending is realized.

7. The in-situ testing equipment according to claim 1, wherein two opposite supporting heads (65) of the three-point bending module (6) are fixedly connected to a rear seat (66) for the supporting heads and are mounted within sliding beatings (68) through tail rotating shafts (67) located at ends of the supporting heads, so as to ensure that orientations of the two rear supporting heads (65) can adaptively adjusted, and a problem that the test piece (23) cannot contact the two supporting heads (65) simultaneously caused by misalignment during assembling and clamping can be eliminated.

8. The in-situ testing equipment according to claim 1, wherein the impressing module (33) is configured for adjusting an initial distance between a probe of a capacitive displacement sensor (83) and a reflective plate (85) through a manual translation platform (95).

9. The in-situ testing equipment according to claim 1, wherein the clamp body module (22) comprises an expansion sleeve for mounting and clamping the test piece.

10. The in-situ testing equipment according to claim 1, wherein the thermal field and magnetic field application module (34) comprises a permanent magnet (104) for providing a magnetic field;

different intensities of the magnetic field are achieved by adjusting a relative position of a magnetic loop formed by the permanent magnet (104) and a soft iron (106) via an adjusting screw (105).

11. The in-situ testing equipment according to claim 1, wherein the thermal field and magnetic field application module (34) comprises a semiconductive Peltier sheet (107) for cooling the test piece, the Peltier sheet (107) is energized with a direct current in a given direction, and a large amount of heat is absorbed at a cooling side of the Peltier sheet due to Peltier effect, such that the temperature of the test piece is lowered so as to realize a cooling effect.

12. The in-situ testing equipment according to claim 1, wherein the test piece is heated by the thermal field and magnetic field application module (34) through light radiation;

two symmetrical light-emitting bodies (108) are used to emit infrared light, and the light is reflected by two arc-shaped reflective surfaces and focused onto one point at the center of the test piece;

a circulation water cooling system (109) is provided in the thermal field and magnetic field application module (34) to ensure that the temperature field inside the thermal field and magnetic field application module (34) will not be influenced by external temperature.