利用测井资料分析计算东海平湖油气田地应力

利用测井资料研究平湖油气田的地应力,对平湖油气田低渗透储层压裂、钻井和开发都有重要意义。文中利用密度、自然伽马、交叉偶极横波测井等资料,对平湖油气田地层的岩石力学参数(泊松比、弹性模量、体积模量、剪切模量、抗压强度、抗剪强度和抗张强度)进行了计算;为确定地层压力和构造应力系数,借鉴前人的研究成果,分别应用黄氏和葛氏地应力计算模型,建立平湖油气田地应力计算方法,并通过岩心差应变法地应力实验验证了该方法的准确性;采用基于XMAC-Ⅱ快横波方位法确定的平湖油气田的地应力方向,与岩心波速各向异性法及黏滞剩磁法地应力实验确定的地应力方向吻合较好。     

Plastic Deformation and Fracture Behavior of Zircaloy-2 Fuel Cladding Tubes under Biaxial Stress

Various combinations of biaxial stress were applied on five batches of recrystallized zircaloy-2 fuel cladding tubes with different textures; elongation in both axial and circumferential directions of the specimen was measured continuously up to 5% plastic deformation.

The anisotropic theory of plasticity proposed by Hill was applied to the resulting data, and anisotropy constants were obtained through the two media of plastic strain loci and plastic strain ratios. Comparison of the results obtained with the two methods proved that the plastic strain loci provide data that are more effective in predicting quantitatively the plastic deformation behavior of the zircaloy-2 tubes. The anisotropy constants change their value with progress of plastic deformation, and judicious application of the effective stress and effective strain obtained on anisotropic materials will permit the relationship between stress and strain under various biaxialities of stresses to be approximated by the work hardening law.

The test specimens used in the plastic deformation experiments were then stressed to fracture under the same combination of biaxial stress as in the proceeding experiments, and the deformation in the fractured part was measured. The result proved that the tilt angle of the c-axis which serves as the index of texture is related to fracture ductility under biaxial stress. Based on this relationship, it was concluded that material with a tilt angle ranging from 10° to 15° is the most suitable for fuel cladding tubes, from the viewpoint of fracture ductility, at least in the case of unirradiated material.     

Magnetocaloric effect in Gd(1−y)DyyAl2

In this work we calculate the magnetic properties and the magnetocaloric effect in Gd_1−yDy_yAl₂ (y = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1). The model Hamiltonian includes contributions from the Zeeman effect, the crystalline electrical field anisotropy and the exchange interactions among Gd–Gd, Gd–Dy and Dy–Dy ions. To obtain a composite with ΔS_T as constant as possible in the temperature range from T = 60 K to 170 K, the appropriate concentrations of the five compounds investigated were calculated using the Smaili and Chahine method. The magnetization and ΔS_T dependences on temperature in the composite were simulated and compared with the partial contributions of the single magnetic component materials. Also, the magnetic field dependence on magnetization was investigated in Gd_0.25Dy_0.75Al₂, where the discontinuous spin reorientation transitions were predicted for magnetic fields lower than 2 T, applied along <110> direction.     

The effect of evaporation on size and shape evolution of faceted gold nanoparticles on sapphire

We studied the size and shape evolution of about 180 faceted gold nanoparticles attached to a sapphire substrate during annealing at 950 °C in air. We employed the scanning force microscopy and interrupted annealing techniques to track the changes in size and shape of individual nanoparticles. The height of all single-crystalline nanoparticles was constant up to the longest cumulative annealing time of 65 h. The lateral dimensions of ∼20% of all nanoparticles shrunk during anneals, while all three dimensions of the remaining 80% of nanoparticles remained constant. Only the nanoparticles with the height below the average (for all particles) were laterally shrinking. We formulated a kinetic model relating the lateral shrinkage of the nanoparticles to the evaporation of Au atoms adsorbed on sapphire. We also assumed that the process controlling particles shrinkage is the slow self-diffusion of Au atoms along the lateral facets of the nanoparticles toward the substrate. The model predicted a power law dependence of the shrinkage rate on the particle height, with the exponent n = 3. The corresponding exponent determined from the experimental data was n = −2.9 ± 0.3, in excellent agreement with the theory. The low value of the effective self-diffusion coefficient along the lateral facets determined with the aid of our model (3.2 ± 0.2 × 10⁻¹⁷ m² s⁻¹) was attributed to the difficulties of step nucleation on atomically flat facets.     

Gas-diffusion layer's structural anisotropy induced localized instability of nafion membrane in polymer electrolyte fuel cell

The design of robust polymer electrolyte fuel cell requires a thorough understanding of the materials' response of the cell components to the operational conditions such as temperature and hydration. As the electrolyte membrane's mechanical properties are temperature, hydration and rate dependent, its response under cyclic loading is of significant importance to predict the damage onset and thus the membrane lifetime. This article reports on the variation in stress levels in the membrane induced due to the gas-diffusion layer's (GDL) anisotropic mechanical properties while accurately capturing the membrane's mechanical response under time dependent hygrothermomechanical conditions. An observation is made on the evolution of negative strain in the membrane under the bipolar plate channel area, which is an indication of membrane thinning, and the magnitude of this strain found to depend upon the GDL's in-plane mechanical properties. In order to come up with a strategy that reduces the magnitude of tensile stresses evolved in the membrane during the hygrothermal unloading and to increase the membrane's lifetime, we numerically show that by employing a fast hygrothermal loading rate and unloading rate strategy, significant reduction (in this study, nearly 100%) in the magnitude of tensile stresses is achievable. The present study assists in understanding the relation between materials compatibility and durability of fuel cell components.     

Temperature dependent coercivity of randomly assembled acicular Fe3O4 particles

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The Stoner‐Wohlfarth model and the chain‐of‐spheres fanning model are used to calculate temperature dependence of the coercivity of acicular single‐domain particles by taking thermal effect into consideration. Coercivity of the particles is evaluated by summing up the contributions of shape anisotropy, magnetocrystalline anisotropy and magnetostrictive anisotropy. The coercivities of randomly assembled Fe₃O₄ particles above the transition point (119°K) and below room temperature are calculated and compared with the published experimental data.     

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This work proposes a hypothesis for the interpretation of shrinkage anisotropy during sintering of an Fe–Cu–C alloy based on the effect of the structural modifications of the powder, due to the prior compaction, on the mass transport phenomena. Dislocations are introduced by cold compaction in the contact regions between particles, with different densities along the compaction direction and the transversal one. Therefore, the mass transport by volume diffusion is strongly activated in both directions, and a prevailing effect in the compaction direction is shown. The volume diffusion coefficients derived from the kinetic model correspond to the dislocation pipe diffusion mechanism.