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Rupture of the abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is the result of the relatively complex interaction of blood hemodynamics and material behavior of arterial walls. In the present study, the cumulative effects of physiological parameters such as the directional growth, arterial wall properties (isotropy and anisotropy), iliac bifurcation and arterial wall thickness on prediction of wall stress in fully coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis of five idealized AAA models have been investigated. In particular, the numerical model considers the heterogeneity of arterial wall and the iliac bifurcation, which allows the study of the geometric asymmetry due to the growth of the aneurysm into different directions. Results demonstrate that the blood pulsatile nature is responsible for emerging a time-dependent recirculation zone inside the aneurysm, which directly affects the stress distribution in aneurismal wall. Therefore, aneurysm deviation from the arterial axis, especially, in the lateral direction increases the wall stress in a relatively nonlinear fashion. Among the models analyzed in this investigation, the anisotropic material model that considers the wall thickness variations, greatly affects the wall stress values, while the stress distributions are less affected as compared to the uniform wall thickness models. In this regard, it is confirmed that wall stress predictions are more influenced by the appropriate structural model than the geometrical considerations such as the level of asymmetry and its curvature, growth direction and its extent.

The cold thread rolling technology was developed rapidly in recent years due to its high efficiency, low cost and perfect mechanical properties of its production. However, researches on the precise thread rolling of the hollow parts were very few. Traditionally, the minimum thickness of the thin-walled threaded parts by thread rolling was mainly determined by the empirical (trial and error) methods. In this study, the forming process of thin-walled thread parts rolled with three thread rolling dies was analyzed. The stress state of the hollow work piece was obtained by solving the statically indeterminate problems. Then, the equations for the minimum wall thickness were derived. Experiments are also performed. The experimental results are generally in good agreement with those by the current theoretical analysis. It could be concluded that the analysis presented in this study can provide a good guidance for the thread rolling of hollow parts.

In order to research the influence of friction conditions on the sheet metal deformation behavior under the fluid pressure, the experimental method that can test the relationship between fluid pressure and wall thickness was proposed in this paper. The theoretical model about the quantitative variation relationship between fluid pressure and wall thickness together with the theoretical model about the quantitative variation relationship between friction coefficient and wall thickness, was obtained by theoretical derivation. At the same time, it could be concluded that friction contact region close to the tensile end was easier to satisfy the plastic yield criterion. Therefore, the plastic deformation initially occurred at this area and fracture emerged on account of excessive reduction of the sheet thickness. Simulation analysis with 304 stainless steel was carried out. The result indicated that the capacity of sheet uniform deformation decreased with the increasing of the friction coefficient. When the friction coefficient increased from 0.08 to 0.20, the uniform elongation decreased by 32%. But when other conditions were kept unchanged, the greater the fluid pressure was, the thinner the sheet would be. Experiments indicated that the necking and fracture appeared in the gauge length near the tensile end with different lubricants. And these provided a theoretical basis for the process and device design of sheet metal hydroforming.

According to the results of electro-superplastic experiment of 1420 Al-Li alloy, the constitutive equation for electro-superplastic was established by revising superplastic equation. The electro-superplastic bulging processes of 1420 Al-Li alloy box part were simulated using the finite element software Abaqus. Then the forming results were analyzed comparatively with superplastic forming, and the influence of pulse current parameters on forming effect was investigated. The simulation results show that the pulse current can not only reduce the load and effective stress, but also improve the wall thickness uniformity during electro-superplastic forming of 1420 Al-Li alloy. The influence law of pulse current parameters on the thickness of box part in different areas is various, but in general, when the pulse current density is 192A/mm² and pulse frequency is 150Hz, the box part has the best forming results.

The cold thread rolling technology was developed rapidly in recent years due to its high efficiency, low cost and perfect mechanical properties of its production. However, researches on the precise thread rolling of the hollow parts were very few. Traditionally, the minimum thickness of the thin-walled threaded parts by thread rolling was mainly determined by the empirical (trial and error) methods. In this study, the forming process of thin-walled thread parts rolled with three thread rolling dies was analyzed. The stress state of the hollow work piece was obtained by solving the statically indeterminate problems. Then, the equations for the minimum wall thickness were derived. Experiments are also performed. The experimental results are generally in good agreement with those by the current theoretical analysis. It could be concluded that the analysis presented in this study can provide a good guidance for the thread rolling of hollow parts.

The energy consumption of building accounts for a significant proportion in the total consumption of the world. The use of new materials may bring obvious energy-saving effect. In this paper, a mathematical model is constructed by economic method. This model can consider synthetically energy consumption of building and the cost of wall, and determine the criterion of selecting wall materials and wall thickness.