Un nouveau concept d'échangeur de chaleur compacte est développé afin d’améliorer les performances du système de conversion d'énergie pour le réacteur ASTRID. La fabrication de géométries complexes (canaux rectangulaires millimétriques) est possible grâce au procédé de soudage diffusion : des tôles rainurées en acier inoxydable 316L sont empilées en conteneur et soudées lors d'un cycle de Compaction Isostatique à Chaud (CIC). La problématique est alors d'obtenir des interfaces résistantes tout en limitant la déformation des canaux nuisible à l’efficacité de l’échangeur. Pour arriver au meilleur compromis, les travaux de cette thèse vont aider à l’optimisation des paramètres pression/temps/température du cycle de CIC.Le premier axe de travail porte sur la simulation numérique de la déformation d’un tel échangeur lors de la CIC. L’influence des paramètres numériques (taille des éléments, critère de convergence) a été étudiée afin d’optimiser la précision et la vitesse des calculs. Les simulations ont mis en évidence l’importance des défauts d’empilements de la structure (glissements et ondulations des tôles) dans l’augmentation de la déformée de l’échangeur. Puis une caractérisation mécanique poussée des tôles laminées a mené à l’identification d’une loi de comportement entre 20°C à 1040°C.Le second axe porte sur la modélisation de l'évolution des interfaces lors du soudage diffusion et la prédiction de la tenue mécanique de ces dernières, l'ensemble pouvant mener à la définition d'un critère de validité des interfaces.Une étude microstructurale et mécaniques des interfaces a permis d’établir une corrélation entre la tenue mécanique d’un joint soudé-diffusé et son taux de surface soudée. En effet, la disparition de la porosité résiduelle est le critère principal pour obtenir de bonnes propriétés mécaniques à l’interface. Toutefois, le franchissement de l’interface par les joints de grains, est nécessaire pour retrouver les propriétés des tôles laminées. Un modèle analytique de fermeture des porosités (Hill et Wallach) est utilisé pour calculer le taux de surface soudée d’une interface en fonction des paramètres du cycle de CIC en modélisant la contribution des mécanismes (visco)plastique et diffusifs (en surface et au joint). Associé à la corrélation entre tenue mécanique et taux de surface soudée, il permet de proposer un outil prédictif pour la tenue mécaniques des interfaces soudé-diffusées. / A new concept of compact plate heat exchanger is developed for the energy conversion system performances of the ASTRID reactor. Manufacturing the complex geometry is possible by a diffusion-welding process: engraved 316L stainless steel plates are stacked and bonded during a Hot Isostatic Pressing cycle (HIP). The problematic is to get strong interfaces without deforming the channels which is harmful for the exchanger efficiency. To reach a good compromise, this thesis work will help to optimize the HIP parameters (pressure/temperature/ time).The first line of work is about the simulation of the heat exchanger deformation along manufacturing process. The influence of numerical parameters (elements size, convergence criterion) was studied to optimize the accuracy and the calculation time. Simulations have shown the importance of structure stack faults (sliding and plate ripples) in the increase of exchanger deformation. Then, a mechanical characterisation of plates was carried out to identify the constitutive equation between 20°C and 1040°C.The second line is about the interface modelling along welding and the prediction of their mechanical strength, as a whole can lead to the definition of an interface acceptability criterion. A microstructural and mechanical study has enabled to correlate the mechanical strength of a diffusion-bonded junction and its bonded area. Indeed, residual porosity disappearance is the main criterion to get good interfaces mechanical strength. However, the grain boundary migration is required to reach the rolled material properties. A void closure analytical model (Hill and Wallach) was used to estimate the bonded area of an interface according to HIP cycle parameters by modelling the contribution of (visco)plastic and diffusion (surface and boundary) mechanisms. Associated with the correlation between mechanical strength and the fraction of bonded area, it enables to propose a predictive tool for the mechanical strength of diffusion-bonded interfaces.

Although the austenitic stainless steels 304 and 321 are often treated nominally as equivalents in their hot rolling characteristics, the question remains whether any subtle differences between the two allow further optimisation of their respective hot rolling schedules. The hot workability of these two types of austenitic stainless steels was compared through single-hit Gleeble simulated thermomechanical processing between 800℃ and 􀀄􀀅00℃ while the strain rate was varied between 0.00􀀄s􀀈􀀉 and 5s􀀈􀀉. It was found that the constants for the hyperbolic sinh equation for hot working of AISI 321 steel are Q = 465 kJ/mol, 􀀖􀀗 = 􀀘.􀀙6 􀀚 􀀄0􀀉􀀛 􀀜􀀝􀀞􀀈􀀉􀀟􀀈􀀉, 􀀠 = 0.00􀀘 􀀜􀀝􀀞􀀈􀀉 and 􀀡 = 6.􀀄 while for 304 steel the constants are Q = 446 kJ/mol, 􀀖􀀗 = 􀀅.􀀄4 􀀚 􀀄0􀀉􀀛 􀀜􀀝􀀞􀀈􀀉􀀟􀀈􀀉, 􀀠 = 0.008 􀀜􀀝􀀞􀀈􀀉and 􀀡 = 6.􀀄. It is shown that the occurrence of dynamic recrystallisation starts when the Zener-Hollomon parameter 􀀢 􀀣 6.4 􀀚 􀀄0􀀉􀀛s􀀈􀀉 for both steels but that the differences in the values of Q and A3 (the structure factor) between the two steels does lead to consistently lower steady state stresses for the steel 321 than is found in the steel 304 at the same Z values. This may, therefore, offer some scope for further optimisation of the hot rolling schedules and in particular in the mill loads of these two respective steels. A modelled constitutive equation derived from hot working tests to predict hot rolling mill loads is proposed and validated against industrial hot rolling data for AISI 321 stainless steel. Good correlation is found between the predicted Mean Flow Stress, the Zener-Hollomon Z parameter and actual industrial mill load values from mill logs if allowances are made for differences in Von Mises plane strain conversion, friction and front or back end tension. The multipass hot working behaviour of this steel was simulated through Gleeble thermomechanical compression testing with the deformation temperature varying between 1200℃ down to 800℃ and the strain rate between 0.001s-1 and 5s-1. At strain rates greater than 0.05s-1, dynamic recovery as a softening mechanism was dominant, increasing the dynamic recrystallisation to dynamic recovery transition temperature DRTT to higher temperatures. This implies that through extrapolation to typical industrial strain rates of about 60s-1,most likely no dynamic recrystallisation in plant hot rolling occurs in this steel but only dynamic recovery. Grain refinement by DRX is, therefore, unlikely in this steel under plant hot rolling conditions. Finally, mill load modelling using the hot working constitutive constants of the near-equivalent 304 instead of those specifically determined for 321, introduces measurable differences in the predicted mill loads. The use of alloy-specific hot working constants even for near-equivalent steels is, therefore, recommended. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / lk2014 / Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering / PhD / unrestricted

Escoamentos viscoelásticos não estacionários com superfícies livres são comuns em muitos processos industriais e diversas técnicas numéricas têm sido empregadas para reproduzir computacionalmente estes processos. A maioria dos modelos empregados utiliza equações diferenciais na definição do tensor de tensões. Porém, para alguns grupos de fluidos complexos, por exemplo, fluidos de Boger, os modelos integrais mostram-se mais capacitados em fornecer uma boa aproximação para os comportamentos não lineares desses fluidos. Este trabalho trata da solução numérica do modelo constitutivo integral KBKZ-PSM para escoamentos transientes bidimensionais com superfícies livres. O método numérico proposto é uma técnica numérica que utiliza diferenças finitas para simular escoamentos com superfícies livres na presença de paredes sólidas. As principais características do método numérico proposto são: solução das equações de conservação de quantidade de movimento e massa utilizando um método semi-implícito; a condição de contorno na superfície livre é acoplada à equação de Poisson, o que garante conservação de massa; a discretização do tempo t é realizada por uma nova técnica numérica; o tensor de Finger é calculado pelo método dos campos de deformação e avançado no tempo pelo método de Euler modificado. Essa nova técnica é verificada em escoamentos cisalhantes e elongacionais. Adicionalmente, uma solução analítica desenvolvida para escoamentos em canais bidimensionais é empregada para verificar e analisar a convergência do método proposto. Com relação a escoamentos com superfícies livres, a convergência é verificada por meio de refinamento de malha nas simulações de um jato incidindo sobre placa rígida e no problema do inchamento do extrudado. Finalmente, o método é aplicado para investigar os problemas jet buckling e inchamento do extrudado de fluidos KBKZ-PSM. / Unsteady viscoelastic free surface flows are common in many industrial processes and a variety of numerical techniques have been employed to simulate these flows. The majority of constitutive models employed are based on differential equations to define the extra stress tensor. However, for some complex fluids, for instance, Boger fluids, integral models are more adequate to approximate the nonlinear behaviour of these fluids. This work deals with the numerical solution of the integral constitutive model KBKZ-PSM for two-dimensional unsteady free surface flows. The proposed numerical method is a numerical technique that employs finite differences to simulate moving free surface flows that interact with solid walls. The main features of the method are: numerical solution of the momentum and mass equations by an implicit method; the pressure condition on the free surface is implicitly coupled with the Poisson equation for obtaining the pressure field from mass conservation; a novel scheme for defining the past times t is employed; the Finger tensor is calculated by the deformation fields method and is advanced in time by the modified Euler method. This new technique is verified by solving shear and uniaxial elongational flows. Moreover, an analytic solution for channel flows is obtained that is used in the verification and convergence analysis of the proposed methodology. For free surface flows, the assessment of convergence lies on the mesh refinement on the simulation of a jet impinging on a flat surface and the extrudade swell problem. Finally, the new method is applied to investigate the jet buckling phenomenon and extrudate swell of KBKZ-PSM fluids.

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Le présent travail de thèse fait suite à une première étude où une stratégie d’identification des paramètres et formes des lois de zones cohésives a été élaborée pour des matériaux homogènes. L’extension au cas de matériaux présentant des hétérogénéités nécessite d’accéder localement aux champs de contraintes.Ainsi, l’objectif principal de cette étude est de mettre au point une méthode de caractérisation locale des propriétés mécaniques et des contraintes. Cette méthode est basée sur l’erreur en relation de comportement combinée à l’exploitation de la richesse des mesures de champs cinématiques planes et plus particulièrement des champs de déformations, obtenus par dérivation numérique des champs de déplacements. Cette mesure cinématique est réalisée par une technique de corrélation d’images numériques enrichie.La méthode d’identification est basée sur la minimisation itérative d’une norme énergétique faisant intervenir le tenseur élastoplastique sécant. Différentes simulations numériques ont illustré la capacité de la procédure à identifier localement des champs de propriétés hétérogènes et sa robustesse et sa stabilité vis-à-vis du bruit de mesure, du choix du jeu de paramètres d’initialisation de l’algorithme et de la finesse du maillage.Pour finir, des essais plans avec différentes géométries d’éprouvettes ont été effectués et un essai a été mis au point pour obtenir de manière maîtrisée un état initial très hétérogène. Les résultats d’identification élastoplastique multilinéaire ont montré la capacité de la méthode à identifier les lois de comportements locales sur ce matériau hétérogène. / The present work follows a first approach where a strategy for identifying the shape and the parameters of cohesive-zone laws has been developed for homogeneous materials. The extension of this method to heterogeneous material requires the knowledge of the local stress state.The study aims at developing a local characterization method for mechanical properties and stresses. This method is based on the constitutive equation gap principles and relies on the knowledge of mechanical kinematic fields and particularly of the strain fields. These fields are obtained by the numerical differentiation of displacement fields measured by digital image correlation.This identification method is based on the iterative minimization of an energy norm involving the secant elastoplastic tensor. Various numerical simulations were used to illustrate the performance of the procedure for locally identifying heterogeneous property fields, and to characterize its robustness and its stability with respect to noise to the values of the algorithm initialization parameter and to the mesh refinement.Finally, various experimental tests with different specimen geometries were performed and a test has been developed to obtain a controlled heterogeneous initial state. The multilinear elastoplastic identification results showed the ability of the method to identify the local behavior properties on heterogeneous materials.

From a physical perspective biological cells consist of active soft matter that exist in a thermodynamic state far from equilibrium. Not only in muscles but also during cell proliferation, wound healing, embryonic development, and many other physiological tasks, generation of forces on the scale of whole cells is required. To date, cellular contractions have been ascribed to adhesion dependent processes such as myosin driven stress fiber formation and the development of focal adhesion complexes. In this thesis it is shown for the first time that contractions can occur independently of focal adhesions in single suspended cells. To measure mechanical properties of suspended cells the Optical Stretcher – a dualbeam laser trap – was used with phase contrast video microscopy which allowed to extract the deformation of the cell for every single frame. For fluorescence imaging confocal laser scanning microscopy was employed. The ratio of the fluorescence of a temperature sensitive and a temperature insensitive rhodamine dye was utilized to determine the temperatures inside the optical trap during and after Optical Stretching. The rise in temperature at a measuring power of 0.7W turned out to be enough to open a temperature sensitive ion channel transfected into an epithelial cell line. In this way a massive Ca2+ influx was triggered during the Optical Stretcher experiment. A new setup combining Optical Stretching and confocal laser scanning microscopy allowed fluorescence imaging of these Ca2+ signals while the cells were deformed by optically induced surface forces, showing that the Ca2+ influx could be manipulated with adequate drugs. This model system was then employed to investigate the influence of Ca2+ on the observed contractions, revealing that they are partially triggered by Ca2+. A phenomenological mathematical model based on the fundamental constitutive equation for linear viscoelastic materials extended by a term accounting for active contractions allowed to quantify the activity of the measured cells. The skewness and the median of the strain distributions were shown to depend on the activity of the cells. The introduced model reveals that even in measurements, that seemingly are describable by passive viscoelasticity, active contractililty might be superimposed. Ignoring this effect will lead to erroneous material properties and misinterpretation of the data. Taken together, the findings presented in this thesis demonstrate that active processes are an essential part of cellular mechanics and cells can contract even independently of adhesions. The results provide a method that allows to quantify active contractions of suspended cells. As the proposed model is not based on specific assumptions on force generating processes, it paves the way for a thorough investigation of different influences, such as cytoskeletal structures and intra-cellular signaling processes, to cellular contractions. The results present an important contribution for better mechanical classification of cells in future research with possible implications for medical diagnosis and therapy.

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In the present work, deformation behavior, texture and microstructure evolution of commercially pure titanium (CP Ti) are investigated by electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) after compression tests at elevated temperatures. By analysing work hardening rate vs. flow stress, the deformation behaviour can be divided into three groups, viz. three-stage work hardening, two-stage work hardening and flow softening. A new deformation condition map is presented, dividing the deformation behavior of CP Ti into three distinct zones which can be separated by two distinct values of the Zener-Hollomon parameter. The deformed microstructures reveal that dynamic recovery is the dominant deformation mechanism for CP Ti during hot working. It is the first time that the Schmid factor and pole figures are used to analyse how the individual slip systems activate and how their activities evolve under various deformation conditions. Two constitutive equations are proposed in this work, one is for single peak dynamic recrystallization (DRX), the other is specially for CP Ti deformed during hot working. After the hot compression tests, some stress-strain curves show a single peak, leading to the motivation of setting up a DRX model. However, the examinations of EBSD maps and metallography evidently show that the deformation mechanism is dynamic recovery rather than DRX. Then, the second model is set up. The influence of the deformation conditions on grain size, texture and deformation twinning is systematically investigated. The results show that {10-12} twinning only occurs at the early stage of deformation. As the strain increases, the {10-12} twinning is suppressed while {10- 11} twinning appears. Three peaks are found in the misorientation frequency-distribution corresponding to basal fiber texture, {10-11} and {10-12} twinning, respectively. A logZ-value of 13 is found to be critical for both the onset of {10-11} compressive twinning and the break point for the subgrain size. The presence of {10-11} twinning is the key factor for effectively reducing the deformed grain size. The percentage of low angle grain boundaries decreases with increasing Z-parameter, falling into a region separated by two parallel lines with a common slope and 10% displacement. After deformation, three texture components can be found, one close to the compression direction, CD, one 10~30° to CD and another 45° to CD. / QC 20100819

From a physical perspective biological cells consist of active soft matter that exist in a thermodynamic state far from equilibrium. Not only in muscles but also during cell proliferation, wound healing, embryonic development, and many other physiological tasks, generation of forces on the scale of whole cells is required. To date, cellular contractions have been ascribed to adhesion dependent processes such as myosin driven stress fiber formation and the development of focal adhesion complexes. In this thesis it is shown for the first time that contractions can occur independently of focal adhesions in single suspended cells. To measure mechanical properties of suspended cells the Optical Stretcher – a dualbeam laser trap – was used with phase contrast video microscopy which allowed to extract the deformation of the cell for every single frame. For fluorescence imaging confocal laser scanning microscopy was employed. The ratio of the fluorescence of a temperature sensitive and a temperature insensitive rhodamine dye was utilized to determine the temperatures inside the optical trap during and after Optical Stretching. The rise in temperature at a measuring power of 0.7W turned out to be enough to open a temperature sensitive ion channel transfected into an epithelial cell line. In this way a massive Ca2+ influx was triggered during the Optical Stretcher experiment. A new setup combining Optical Stretching and confocal laser scanning microscopy allowed fluorescence imaging of these Ca2+ signals while the cells were deformed by optically induced surface forces, showing that the Ca2+ influx could be manipulated with adequate drugs. This model system was then employed to investigate the influence of Ca2+ on the observed contractions, revealing that they are partially triggered by Ca2+. A phenomenological mathematical model based on the fundamental constitutive equation for linear viscoelastic materials extended by a term accounting for active contractions allowed to quantify the activity of the measured cells. The skewness and the median of the strain distributions were shown to depend on the activity of the cells. The introduced model reveals that even in measurements, that seemingly are describable by passive viscoelasticity, active contractililty might be superimposed. Ignoring this effect will lead to erroneous material properties and misinterpretation of the data. Taken together, the findings presented in this thesis demonstrate that active processes are an essential part of cellular mechanics and cells can contract even independently of adhesions. The results provide a method that allows to quantify active contractions of suspended cells. As the proposed model is not based on specific assumptions on force generating processes, it paves the way for a thorough investigation of different influences, such as cytoskeletal structures and intra-cellular signaling processes, to cellular contractions. The results present an important contribution for better mechanical classification of cells in future research with possible implications for medical diagnosis and therapy.