Ground-based investigations on phase-moving phenomenon with space sublimation cooling for lunar exploration missions

The lunar surface is a typical vacuum environment, and its harsh heat rejection conditions bring great challenges to the thermal control technology of the exploration mission. In addition to the radiator, the sublimator is recommended as one of the promising options for heat rejection. The sublimator makes use of water to freeze and sublimate in a porous medium, rejecting heat to the vacuum environment. The complex heat and mass transfer process involves many physical phenomena such as the freezing and sublimation phase change of water in the porous medium and the movement of the phase-change interface. In this paper, the visualized ground-based experimental approaches of space sublimation cooling were presented to reveal the moving law of three-phase point and the growth phenomenon of ice-peak and icicle in microchannels under vacuum conditions. The visualized experiments and results prove that the freezing ice is divided into the porous ice-peak and the transparent icicle. As the sublimation progresses, the phase-change interface moves downward steadily, the length of the ice-peak increases, but the icicle decreases. The visualized experiments of space sublimation cooling in the capillary have guiding significance to reveal the sublimation cooling mechanism of water in the sublimator for lunar exploration missions.     

Review on residual stress and its effects on manufacturing of aluminium alloy structural panels with typical multi-processes

In the aerospace industry, integrated aluminium alloy plates and stiffened panels with high accuracy and performance attract significant interest. To manufacture these panels as integrity with high accuracy, multiple processes need to be utilised, such as machining, welding and forming. During the whole manufacturing chain, residual stresses can be generated and redistributed in the components among different processes. The residual stress would significantly affect the shapes and properties of the final products. Currently, these great effects are not well considered in the design and manufacturing processes. This paper aims to draw a general understanding of the residual stress generated in the pre-manufacturing processes and its effects on subsequent manufacturing processes. The mechanisms and distributions of residual stresses generated in typical pre-manufacturing processes of structural panels, including machining, welding and additive manufacturing (AM), are firstly summarised. The detailed effects of generated residual stresses on distortion and application properties in subsequent manufacturing processes are then concluded. In addition, current methods developed for the investigation of residual stress effect in multi-processes manufacturing are critically reviewed, including experimental, analytical, finite element (FE) and machine learning methods. Furthermore, the future development trend of methods for residual stress consideration and control in the design of manufacturing processes is summarised, providing comprehensive guidance to achieve the high accurate manufacturing of aluminium alloy structural components.     

气凝胶隔热材料制备及航天热防护应用研究进展北大核心CSCD

我国航天事业的不断发展对航天器热防护材料提出了更高的要求,气凝胶作为一种纳米网络多孔材料,因其纳米尺度效应,具有超级隔热性能,是近年来超级隔热材料研究的热点和前沿。本文以航天热防护应用为背景,综述了气凝胶隔热材料近十年来的研究进展,包括无机氧化物气凝胶、有机气凝胶、炭气凝胶、碳化物气凝胶隔热材料等,以及其制备方法、隔热性能和热防护应用现状,结合当前航天领域需求和气凝胶隔热材料研究的难点问题,提出气凝胶隔热材料的未来发展方向。     

复合材料整流罩声学等效建模与低频隔声性能研究

运载火箭发射过程中的恶劣噪声环境会导致整流罩内部电子设备失效。开展整流罩的内声场环境预测以及隔声分析,对其降噪研究和优化设计具有重要意义。复合材料整流罩舱壁大量使用蜂窝夹芯板,基于蜂窝夹芯结构精细化模型开展整流罩内声场环境预示计算量大,无法适用。本文建立了复合材料蜂窝夹芯板的力/声学等效模型,并利用精细化模型验证等效模型的精度;进一步基于有限元-边界元方法对某整流罩结构进行低频声振分析;同时,对整流罩的隔声量进行了评价。结果表明:整流罩内声场在频率为160 Hz附近声学环境较为恶劣,整流罩的降噪研究应针对该频段进行。