1 00:00:00,030 --> 00:00:02,470 The following content is provided under a Creative 2 00:00:02,470 --> 00:00:04,000 Commons license. 3 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,330 Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare 4 00:00:06,330 --> 00:00:10,690 continue to offer high-quality educational resources for free. 5 00:00:10,690 --> 00:00:13,310 To make a donation or view additional materials 6 00:00:13,310 --> 00:00:17,025 from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare 7 00:00:17,025 --> 00:00:17,650 at ocw.mit.edu. 8 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:27,954 LORNA GIBSON: All right. 9 00:00:27,954 --> 00:00:30,120 And I really wanted to show you my little hook video 10 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,380 and I downloaded it so I thought we'd start just 11 00:00:32,380 --> 00:00:37,040 by watching that and then I'll pick up about modeling phones. 12 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,330 So this takes like nine or 10 minutes, 13 00:00:39,330 --> 00:00:40,805 but I just thought it was cute. 14 00:00:40,805 --> 00:00:42,430 And I made it and I want you to see it. 15 00:00:42,430 --> 00:00:44,594 So let's do that to start. 16 00:00:44,594 --> 00:00:45,260 [VIDEO PLAYBACK] 17 00:00:45,260 --> 00:00:47,780 We're here at the Harvard University Botany Library, 18 00:00:47,780 --> 00:00:51,070 looking at a first edition of Robert Hooke's Micrographia, 19 00:00:51,070 --> 00:00:51,850 published-- 20 00:00:51,850 --> 00:00:53,920 How do I get rid of the bar, Greg? 21 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:54,710 Oh, there it is. 22 00:00:54,710 --> 00:00:57,855 show the microscopic structure of materials. 23 00:00:57,855 --> 00:01:00,930 And it has a number of remarkable drawings in it. 24 00:01:00,930 --> 00:01:02,870 Here we see drawings of silk. 25 00:01:02,870 --> 00:01:04,120 These are two different silks. 26 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,450 On the top here, we have a fine-waled silk. 27 00:01:07,450 --> 00:01:10,240 And in this more details drawing down here, 28 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,510 you can see the patterned weaving of the silk. 29 00:01:13,510 --> 00:01:16,960 The bottom image here is a drawing of watered silk. 30 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:20,760 And over here, there's another higher magnification image. 31 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,480 And you can see the pattern here is more sharply angled. 32 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,070 And it appears that this sharper angle here 33 00:01:27,070 --> 00:01:32,570 gives the different texture to the surface finish of the silk. 34 00:01:32,570 --> 00:01:34,912 So here we see a drawing of charred wood. 35 00:01:34,912 --> 00:01:37,370 And one of the things I find interesting about this drawing 36 00:01:37,370 --> 00:01:40,945 is how similar it is to modern electron micrographs which 37 00:01:40,945 --> 00:01:42,130 we've seen before. 38 00:01:42,130 --> 00:01:45,190 And in this drawing, we can see two of the main features. 39 00:01:45,190 --> 00:01:48,340 We see these small cells, which are fibers that provide 40 00:01:48,340 --> 00:01:49,960 structural support to the tree. 41 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:51,620 And we see these larger cells here, 42 00:01:51,620 --> 00:01:53,330 which are vessels which allow fluids 43 00:01:53,330 --> 00:01:55,490 to go up and down the tree. 44 00:01:55,490 --> 00:01:58,730 And here we see a drawing of the surface of a rosemary leaf, 45 00:01:58,730 --> 00:02:01,085 with the unexpected, tiny, little bars. 46 00:02:01,085 --> 00:02:02,710 And this is something that you can only 47 00:02:02,710 --> 00:02:03,830 see with the microscope. 48 00:02:03,830 --> 00:02:05,960 You wouldn't expect to see those when you just 49 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:07,860 feel the surface of the rosemary leaf. 50 00:02:07,860 --> 00:02:10,068 So it's kind of interesting that with the microscope, 51 00:02:10,068 --> 00:02:14,250 you can see these features that are invisible to the naked eye. 52 00:02:14,250 --> 00:02:16,260 One of the main themes of material science 53 00:02:16,260 --> 00:02:18,030 is that the property of materials 54 00:02:18,030 --> 00:02:19,776 are related to their structure. 55 00:02:19,776 --> 00:02:21,540 And so being able to see the structure 56 00:02:21,540 --> 00:02:24,560 at a microscopic scale is very helpful. 57 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,221 And today, we can even see the structure at the atomic scale. 58 00:02:28,221 --> 00:02:30,600 Robert Hooke understood this idea. 59 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,620 And in the description of the cork, 60 00:02:32,620 --> 00:02:34,820 Hooke states, "I no sooner discerned 61 00:02:34,820 --> 00:02:38,100 these-- which were the first microscopical pores I ever 62 00:02:38,100 --> 00:02:42,420 saw-- but methought that I had with the discovery of them, 63 00:02:42,420 --> 00:02:46,630 perfectly hinted to me the true and intelligible reason for all 64 00:02:46,630 --> 00:02:48,620 of the phenomena of cork." 65 00:02:48,620 --> 00:02:51,200 So what he's saying here is that by looking at the structure 66 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,850 and looking at the cells here in the drawing, 67 00:02:53,850 --> 00:02:56,780 he thinks he can understand the properties of cork 68 00:02:56,780 --> 00:02:59,000 or the phenomena of cork. 69 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,600 What was it about Robert Hooke that 70 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,110 allowed him to make this book? 71 00:03:02,110 --> 00:03:04,110 Why was it him and not somebody else? 72 00:03:04,110 --> 00:03:06,560 Well, Robert Hooke had kind of an interesting history. 73 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,160 He grew up on the Isle of Wight. 74 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,110 And as a boy, he loved making drawings. 75 00:03:10,110 --> 00:03:12,500 And he got quite skilled at making drawings. 76 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:15,420 The other thing was, he loved making models of things. 77 00:03:15,420 --> 00:03:17,030 He made models of ships. 78 00:03:17,030 --> 00:03:19,560 He made a wooden clock that was a working 79 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,370 clock when he was a kid. 80 00:03:21,370 --> 00:03:23,800 And as a teenager, he moved to London. 81 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,080 And he became an apprentice to Sir Peter Lilley, 82 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:27,680 who was a famous painter of the time. 83 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,560 So his drawing was good enough that he would be working 84 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,370 with a very well-known painter. 85 00:03:33,370 --> 00:03:36,410 After he did that, he went to the Westminister School. 86 00:03:36,410 --> 00:03:37,810 And he studied classics. 87 00:03:37,810 --> 00:03:39,020 He studied mathematics. 88 00:03:39,020 --> 00:03:40,880 But he also learned to use a lathe. 89 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,920 And this was also very helpful in him making 90 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,520 various sorts of apparatus. 91 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,300 And as a student at Oxford, he worked 92 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:50,410 in the lab of Robert Boyle. 93 00:03:50,410 --> 00:03:54,060 And his job in that lab was to develop scientific apparatus. 94 00:03:54,060 --> 00:03:56,390 And he did things like he built pumps 95 00:03:56,390 --> 00:03:59,270 that allowed Robert Boyle to do the experiments that 96 00:03:59,270 --> 00:04:01,800 led to Boyle's Law. 97 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,150 When he returned to London after Oxford, 98 00:04:04,150 --> 00:04:05,950 he became the Curator of Experiments 99 00:04:05,950 --> 00:04:07,430 at the Royal Society. 100 00:04:07,430 --> 00:04:10,590 And one of the things he did was he got a microscope. 101 00:04:10,590 --> 00:04:13,904 He improved that microscope, increasing their magnification, 102 00:04:13,904 --> 00:04:16,279 which was what allowed him to make the beautiful drawings 103 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:17,630 that we see today. 104 00:04:17,630 --> 00:04:19,450 And here in the preface of the book, 105 00:04:19,450 --> 00:04:21,890 we see that he even made a drawing of his microscope. 106 00:04:21,890 --> 00:04:26,310 So this thing down here-- this is Robert Hooke's microscope. 107 00:04:26,310 --> 00:04:27,950 The development of new microscopes 108 00:04:27,950 --> 00:04:29,750 with higher and higher magnifications 109 00:04:29,750 --> 00:04:31,540 continues to this day. 110 00:04:31,540 --> 00:04:35,090 Scanning electron microscopes were invented in the 1960s. 111 00:04:35,090 --> 00:04:37,600 And today, we have transmission electron microscopes 112 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,220 and atomic force microscopes with even higher 113 00:04:40,220 --> 00:04:41,760 magnifications. 114 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:43,360 At these higher magnifications, we 115 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,960 can see details that Hooke was unable to see because 116 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:48,110 of the limitations of the microscope 117 00:04:48,110 --> 00:04:50,290 that he had-- the optical microscope. 118 00:04:50,290 --> 00:04:51,960 But it's interesting to see today 119 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:53,760 the images we see in a scanning electron 120 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,920 microscope at a similar magnification to those 121 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,580 that Hooke saw in his optical microscope. 122 00:04:59,580 --> 00:05:01,860 And it's remarkable to see how many of the features 123 00:05:01,860 --> 00:05:05,000 that we see in these much more fancy microscopes 124 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,220 that he was able to capture in his drawings 125 00:05:07,220 --> 00:05:10,270 with his simple optical microscope. 126 00:05:10,270 --> 00:05:11,770 So here we have a picture of cork. 127 00:05:11,770 --> 00:05:15,240 We have Hooke's drawings showing two perpendicular planes. 128 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,130 We also have this nice, little drawing of a cork branch here. 129 00:05:18,130 --> 00:05:21,340 Cork is the bark from the cork oak tree. 130 00:05:21,340 --> 00:05:23,330 And in Hooke's drawings of the microstructure, 131 00:05:23,330 --> 00:05:26,990 we can see these cells here are roughly box-like. 132 00:05:26,990 --> 00:05:28,970 They're more or less rectangular. 133 00:05:28,970 --> 00:05:31,257 And these cells here look more or less circular. 134 00:05:31,257 --> 00:05:33,090 So there's these two different perpendicular 135 00:05:33,090 --> 00:05:34,750 planes in the cork. 136 00:05:34,750 --> 00:05:37,220 And when we look at these scanning electron micrographs, 137 00:05:37,220 --> 00:05:39,390 we can see very similar structure. 138 00:05:39,390 --> 00:05:41,750 There are some cells that are roughly boxlike, 139 00:05:41,750 --> 00:05:46,030 and others that are more or less hexagonal or roughly rounded. 140 00:05:46,030 --> 00:05:48,850 One feature that Hooke was not able to see, though, 141 00:05:48,850 --> 00:05:51,440 that you do see on the scanning electron micrographs, 142 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,580 is the waviness in the cell walls. 143 00:05:53,580 --> 00:05:55,830 And that was because the resolution of his microscope 144 00:05:55,830 --> 00:05:59,070 was insufficient to see that level of detail. 145 00:05:59,070 --> 00:06:01,690 And here in this illustration on the bottom 146 00:06:01,690 --> 00:06:03,740 here is a drawing of sponge. 147 00:06:03,740 --> 00:06:06,380 And when we look at the scanning electron micrograph, 148 00:06:06,380 --> 00:06:09,320 we see that the structure is remarkably similar to what 149 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:10,870 Hooke has drawn. 150 00:06:10,870 --> 00:06:13,270 So here we have Hooke's drawing of feathers. 151 00:06:13,270 --> 00:06:16,420 And we can see he's made several drawings at different length 152 00:06:16,420 --> 00:06:17,530 scales. 153 00:06:17,530 --> 00:06:20,630 And if we look at this one here, we see the barbule. 154 00:06:20,630 --> 00:06:24,400 And you can see these little hooked regions there. 155 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:28,310 And those hooks lock into the little feathers 156 00:06:28,310 --> 00:06:32,050 over on this side over here of the adjacent barbule. 157 00:06:32,050 --> 00:06:34,070 And in the higher magnification picture, 158 00:06:34,070 --> 00:06:38,000 you can see on one barbule, there's hooks on one side 159 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,690 but not on the other. 160 00:06:39,690 --> 00:06:43,740 And it's this hooking of the two sections together 161 00:06:43,740 --> 00:06:46,060 that allows the feathers to maintain 162 00:06:46,060 --> 00:06:49,967 a smooth surface for the wing when the bird is flying. 163 00:06:49,967 --> 00:06:51,550 And you can see the same sort of thing 164 00:06:51,550 --> 00:06:53,258 when you look at the electron micrograph. 165 00:06:53,258 --> 00:06:57,320 So you can see the little hooks on one side of the barbules. 166 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,830 And you can see how they interconnect together 167 00:06:59,830 --> 00:07:01,570 with the next barb. 168 00:07:01,570 --> 00:07:04,580 One of the most reproduced images from Hooke's book 169 00:07:04,580 --> 00:07:07,037 is that of the flea-- this image we see here. 170 00:07:07,037 --> 00:07:07,870 And you can see why. 171 00:07:07,870 --> 00:07:09,460 It's a gorgeous image. 172 00:07:09,460 --> 00:07:12,330 And it shows details that people had never seen before. 173 00:07:12,330 --> 00:07:15,450 People were amazed to see that the little flea that they might 174 00:07:15,450 --> 00:07:17,540 have found on their dog or something 175 00:07:17,540 --> 00:07:20,580 was actually made up of this compound body, 176 00:07:20,580 --> 00:07:23,570 with all these little plates and little hairs here. 177 00:07:23,570 --> 00:07:26,530 And you can see these little tiny claws on the legs, 178 00:07:26,530 --> 00:07:28,220 and the legs have all these hairs. 179 00:07:28,220 --> 00:07:30,850 Nobody had any idea that this is what a flea actually 180 00:07:30,850 --> 00:07:31,840 looked like. 181 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:33,640 And so it was an amazing drawing. 182 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,090 And it was something that people were just stunned by when 183 00:07:37,090 --> 00:07:38,620 Hooke's book came out. 184 00:07:38,620 --> 00:07:41,030 And if we look at a modern electron micrograph, 185 00:07:41,030 --> 00:07:43,210 we can see it's remarkably similar if we 186 00:07:43,210 --> 00:07:45,280 look at the same magnification. 187 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,170 So Hooke showed many of the same details, 188 00:07:48,170 --> 00:07:50,750 showed some of the same hairs on the legs, 189 00:07:50,750 --> 00:07:53,760 showed the same sorts of plates, showed the claws 190 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:55,450 at the ends of the legs. 191 00:07:55,450 --> 00:07:58,340 And our modern image is probably from a different species 192 00:07:58,340 --> 00:07:58,840 of flea. 193 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:00,820 We don't know what species of flea 194 00:08:00,820 --> 00:08:02,160 that Hooke actually looked at. 195 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:04,118 But you can see there's a tremendous similarity 196 00:08:04,118 --> 00:08:05,297 between the two images. 197 00:08:05,297 --> 00:08:07,130 And it's remarkable how many of the features 198 00:08:07,130 --> 00:08:09,730 that Hooke was able to capture in his drawing. 199 00:08:09,730 --> 00:08:12,220 And here we have the compound eye of the fly. 200 00:08:12,220 --> 00:08:15,450 And this, again, was astonishing to people in Hooke's day. 201 00:08:15,450 --> 00:08:17,960 And even today, people look at this image, 202 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:22,230 and they're pretty amazed at the detail in this drawing. 203 00:08:22,230 --> 00:08:24,750 And again, we can compare this with a modern electron 204 00:08:24,750 --> 00:08:25,850 micrograph. 205 00:08:25,850 --> 00:08:27,880 And again, you can see the similarities 206 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,090 between what Hooke saw and what we 207 00:08:30,090 --> 00:08:32,909 see in a modern scanning electron microscope 208 00:08:32,909 --> 00:08:35,030 at a similar magnification. 209 00:08:35,030 --> 00:08:37,600 In the 1980s, atomic force microscopes 210 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,320 were invented, which have a resolution down to tens 211 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:41,710 of nanometers. 212 00:08:41,710 --> 00:08:44,380 And today, there's transmission electron microscopes, 213 00:08:44,380 --> 00:08:46,820 which allow you to see the atomic structure. 214 00:08:46,820 --> 00:08:48,750 So for instance in a crystal lattice, 215 00:08:48,750 --> 00:08:52,090 you can see the individual atoms and the regular crystal 216 00:08:52,090 --> 00:08:54,040 structure. 217 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,990 Today, most experimental studies of materials 218 00:08:56,990 --> 00:08:59,790 include photographs of the microscopic structure 219 00:08:59,790 --> 00:09:03,420 of the material taken through some sort of microscope. 220 00:09:03,420 --> 00:09:06,090 And the remarkable thing is that all of these studies 221 00:09:06,090 --> 00:09:08,540 really trace back to this book here 222 00:09:08,540 --> 00:09:11,947 that we're looking at today-- to Robert Hooke's Micrographia. 223 00:09:11,947 --> 00:09:12,530 [END PLAYBACK] 224 00:09:12,530 --> 00:09:13,350 There you have it. 225 00:09:13,350 --> 00:09:14,530 So I just thought that was kind of cute. 226 00:09:14,530 --> 00:09:15,405 You might enjoy that. 227 00:09:15,405 --> 00:09:18,170 So that was that. 228 00:09:18,170 --> 00:09:21,820 All right, let's get out of there. 229 00:09:21,820 --> 00:09:22,320 Stop. 230 00:09:25,630 --> 00:09:28,000 So let's go back to the foams. 231 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,690 So I think last time, we got as far 232 00:09:29,690 --> 00:09:32,400 as talking about the linear elastic behavior of foams 233 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:33,785 and modeling that. 234 00:09:33,785 --> 00:09:36,060 But we didn't quite get to looking 235 00:09:36,060 --> 00:09:37,949 at the compressive strength of the foam. 236 00:09:37,949 --> 00:09:39,490 So I think we got as far as comparing 237 00:09:39,490 --> 00:09:42,020 the models with these equations here, 238 00:09:42,020 --> 00:09:45,720 and these plots of the data. 239 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:47,494 And what I wanted to pick up with today 240 00:09:47,494 --> 00:09:49,160 was looking at the compressive strength. 241 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:52,730 And we'll look at the fracture toughness as well in tension. 242 00:09:52,730 --> 00:09:54,520 So we're going to start with nonlinear 243 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,055 elasticity and the elastic collapse stress. 244 00:10:10,170 --> 00:10:15,750 So if we have an open-cell foam, the derivation 245 00:10:15,750 --> 00:10:17,910 for the elastic collapse stress is really 246 00:10:17,910 --> 00:10:19,370 pretty straightforward. 247 00:10:19,370 --> 00:10:21,840 We say the elastic collapse occurs 248 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:23,120 when the cell walls buckles. 249 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,980 So in this schematic here, you can see the vertical cell 250 00:10:25,980 --> 00:10:27,120 walls have buckled. 251 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,490 And so there's going to be some Euler load that's 252 00:10:29,490 --> 00:10:31,310 related to that buckling. 253 00:10:31,310 --> 00:10:33,920 And that's just the usual Euler load-- n squared, the n 254 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,780 constraint factor, pi squared E. This 255 00:10:36,780 --> 00:10:40,110 is going to be E of the solid, I over l 256 00:10:40,110 --> 00:10:43,300 squared-- the length of the member. 257 00:10:43,300 --> 00:10:46,310 And then the stress that corresponds to that 258 00:10:46,310 --> 00:10:49,810 is just going to be proportional to that buckling load 259 00:10:49,810 --> 00:10:52,440 over the area of the cell, which is just 260 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:56,000 l squared, so just P critical over l squared. 261 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,820 So that just goes as Es. 262 00:10:58,820 --> 00:11:00,760 I is going to go as t to the fourth, 263 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,737 because we have that square sectioned member. 264 00:11:04,737 --> 00:11:06,320 And now this is going to be l squared. 265 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:07,850 And that's an l squared. 266 00:11:07,850 --> 00:11:09,830 So that's l to the fourth. 267 00:11:09,830 --> 00:11:12,030 And so if I combine all of that together, 268 00:11:12,030 --> 00:11:14,800 I can say that the elastic buckling stress is going 269 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,420 to be some constant-- and I think we're up to C4 270 00:11:17,420 --> 00:11:21,650 now-- times the Young's modulus of the solid times 271 00:11:21,650 --> 00:11:26,130 the relative density of the foam squared. 272 00:11:26,130 --> 00:11:33,270 So that's our equation for the elastic buckling stress. 273 00:11:33,270 --> 00:11:35,900 And if you compare this with data, 274 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:39,050 you can make an estimate of what C4 is. 275 00:11:39,050 --> 00:11:45,190 And we find that C4 is about 0.05. 276 00:11:45,190 --> 00:11:47,130 And you can also say that 0.05 really 277 00:11:47,130 --> 00:11:50,220 corresponds to the strain at which the buckling occurs. 278 00:11:50,220 --> 00:11:53,470 Because the Young's modulus goes as the constants 1 times 279 00:11:53,470 --> 00:11:55,310 Es times the relative density squared. 280 00:11:55,310 --> 00:11:58,030 So the strain's just going to be the stress over the modulus. 281 00:11:58,030 --> 00:11:59,615 So that does correspond to the strain. 282 00:12:16,820 --> 00:12:19,650 So that's saying that buckling compressive stress 283 00:12:19,650 --> 00:12:21,145 occurs at a strain of about 5%. 284 00:12:25,540 --> 00:12:28,470 So that's open cells. 285 00:12:28,470 --> 00:12:31,670 And then if we look at closed cells, 286 00:12:31,670 --> 00:12:33,829 if you recall when we looked at the moduli 287 00:12:33,829 --> 00:12:35,370 we looked at a couple of extra terms. 288 00:12:35,370 --> 00:12:38,609 One was associated with face stretching for the modulus. 289 00:12:38,609 --> 00:12:40,650 And the other was associated with the compression 290 00:12:40,650 --> 00:12:41,920 of the gas. 291 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:43,834 For the buckling, the faces don't really 292 00:12:43,834 --> 00:12:46,250 contribute that much, because typically the faces are very 293 00:12:46,250 --> 00:12:48,240 thin relative to the struts. 294 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:49,850 And because they're so thin, they 295 00:12:49,850 --> 00:12:52,730 buckle at a much lower load, and they don't contribute too much. 296 00:12:52,730 --> 00:12:55,450 So we're not going to worry about that contribution. 297 00:12:55,450 --> 00:12:58,360 So I'm just going to say that the thickness of the face 298 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,960 is often small compared to the edges. 299 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:18,060 And that really is from the surface tension in processing 300 00:13:18,060 --> 00:13:20,525 that draws material away from the face and into the edges. 301 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:49,550 There can be some contribution from the internal pressure. 302 00:13:49,550 --> 00:13:52,220 So if the internal pressure is greater 303 00:13:52,220 --> 00:13:55,350 than atmospheric pressure, then the cell walls 304 00:13:55,350 --> 00:13:57,870 are pre-tensioned, and you'd have to account for that. 305 00:14:07,070 --> 00:14:10,310 So the buckling would have to overcome that pressure as well. 306 00:14:21,490 --> 00:14:24,370 So then you would have the buckling stress 307 00:14:24,370 --> 00:14:27,920 would just be what we have up there-- C4 times 308 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,560 Es times the relative density squared. 309 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:38,070 And then we just add on that factor P0 minus P atmospheric. 310 00:14:38,070 --> 00:14:40,336 The thing with the gas which tends to affect more 311 00:14:40,336 --> 00:14:41,710 than the buckling stress, though, 312 00:14:41,710 --> 00:14:43,860 is the post-collapse behavior. 313 00:14:43,860 --> 00:14:46,830 So let me just show you a couple of things here. 314 00:14:46,830 --> 00:14:50,290 So here's some data for the elastic collapse stress. 315 00:14:50,290 --> 00:14:52,600 And you can see on the y-axis, we've 316 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,460 got the stress normalized by the Young's modulus of the solid. 317 00:14:56,460 --> 00:15:00,140 And on the x-axis, we've got the relative density. 318 00:15:00,140 --> 00:15:04,660 And that solid line there-- sort of solid, dark line-- 319 00:15:04,660 --> 00:15:07,610 is that equation there, which is the same as this one up here. 320 00:15:07,610 --> 00:15:11,237 And you can see the data lie fairly close to that. 321 00:15:11,237 --> 00:15:13,320 But what's interesting is if you look at the-- why 322 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:14,153 is this not working? 323 00:15:16,832 --> 00:15:19,610 Maybe my batteries finally died. 324 00:15:19,610 --> 00:15:23,600 If we look at the post-collapse behavior, 325 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,450 you can see if these are the stress-strain curves, 326 00:15:27,450 --> 00:15:29,110 they're not flat here. 327 00:15:29,110 --> 00:15:31,920 They have some rise to them. 328 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:33,692 And this is a closed-cell foam. 329 00:15:33,692 --> 00:15:35,400 And you can imagine as you're compressing 330 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:37,910 the closed-cell foam, you're reducing 331 00:15:37,910 --> 00:15:39,200 the volume of the cell. 332 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,408 And as you doing that, you're increasing the pressure 333 00:15:41,408 --> 00:15:43,060 inside the cell from the gas. 334 00:15:43,060 --> 00:15:44,880 And you can calculate what that is. 335 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:46,540 And I'll do that in a second. 336 00:15:46,540 --> 00:15:49,810 And if you subtract off that gas pressure contribution, 337 00:15:49,810 --> 00:15:52,090 that works out to this line here. 338 00:15:52,090 --> 00:15:56,320 Then these lines will be more flat, like this. 339 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,270 And we already really pretty much worked 340 00:15:58,270 --> 00:15:59,521 out that gas contribution. 341 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:13,360 So I'll just say for the post-collapse behavior, 342 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,900 the stress rises due to the gas compression. 343 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,201 And that's as long as the faces don't rupture. 344 00:16:33,252 --> 00:16:34,710 So if you have an elastomeric foam, 345 00:16:34,710 --> 00:16:35,918 typically they don't rupture. 346 00:16:40,940 --> 00:16:43,760 And what we had worked out before 347 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,185 was that that pressure-- we called 348 00:16:46,185 --> 00:16:51,360 it P prime-- it was P0 minus P atmospheric-- that 349 00:16:51,360 --> 00:17:00,340 was equal to P0 times the amount of strain, 350 00:17:00,340 --> 00:17:06,609 epsilon, times 1 minus 2 times the Poisson's ratio 351 00:17:06,609 --> 00:17:12,795 divided by 1 minus epsilon times 1 minus 2 nu 352 00:17:12,795 --> 00:17:13,920 minus the relative density. 353 00:17:21,140 --> 00:17:24,530 And once you get to the buckling stress, 354 00:17:24,530 --> 00:17:26,573 then the Poisson's ratio becomes 0. 355 00:17:36,770 --> 00:17:39,270 So if you take a foam-- so I brought a little foam in so you 356 00:17:39,270 --> 00:17:41,580 can play around with this one-- so if you take a foam like this 357 00:17:41,580 --> 00:17:44,090 and you compress it, once you've buckled it like this, 358 00:17:44,090 --> 00:17:45,632 it's not getting any wider this way. 359 00:17:45,632 --> 00:17:47,340 And part of the reason for that is you've 360 00:17:47,340 --> 00:17:48,540 got all these pores in here. 361 00:17:48,540 --> 00:17:50,660 And the cells just collapse into the pores. 362 00:17:50,660 --> 00:17:52,755 They don't really need to move out sideways. 363 00:17:52,755 --> 00:17:54,380 So you can smush that yourself, and try 364 00:17:54,380 --> 00:17:57,480 to convince yourself that the Poisson's ratio is just 0. 365 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:58,770 Yes, Matt. 366 00:17:58,770 --> 00:18:05,405 AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] I guess I want to measure [INAUDIBLE] 367 00:18:05,405 --> 00:18:06,787 the gas contribution? 368 00:18:06,787 --> 00:18:08,620 LORNA GIBSON: Yes, so there is a strain rate 369 00:18:08,620 --> 00:18:09,940 effect with these things. 370 00:18:09,940 --> 00:18:11,648 But I wasn't going to get into that here. 371 00:18:11,648 --> 00:18:13,900 If you look in the book, it's described in the book. 372 00:18:13,900 --> 00:18:15,320 So I think there's two things. 373 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,537 One is that the solid itself can have a rate dependency. 374 00:18:18,537 --> 00:18:20,370 And then there could be something connected. 375 00:18:20,370 --> 00:18:21,570 AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]. 376 00:18:21,570 --> 00:18:24,194 LORNA GIBSON: Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to go into that here. 377 00:18:24,194 --> 00:18:27,720 But one could look at that. 378 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:29,790 So let me just write down one more thing here, 379 00:18:29,790 --> 00:18:32,180 because if we let nu be 0, then this thing here 380 00:18:32,180 --> 00:18:33,035 becomes simpler. 381 00:18:50,180 --> 00:18:53,330 So we could say the stress post collapse 382 00:18:53,330 --> 00:19:03,190 as a function of strain would be our buckling stress and then 383 00:19:03,190 --> 00:19:04,566 plus this factor here. 384 00:19:27,970 --> 00:19:32,350 So that curve on the bottom over here-- 385 00:19:32,350 --> 00:19:34,350 if this is the stress-strain curve-- this little 386 00:19:34,350 --> 00:19:37,210 dashed line here-- that's the gas contribution. 387 00:19:37,210 --> 00:19:39,257 And that is this term here. 388 00:19:39,257 --> 00:19:41,340 So you can kind of see how the shape of the curves 389 00:19:41,340 --> 00:19:43,035 reflects that gas contribution. 390 00:19:43,035 --> 00:19:44,410 And when you subtract it out, you 391 00:19:44,410 --> 00:19:47,245 get pretty much a horizontal plateau over here. 392 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,230 Are we happy? 393 00:19:53,230 --> 00:19:54,230 Yeah? 394 00:19:54,230 --> 00:19:55,870 AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]? 395 00:19:55,870 --> 00:19:57,620 LORNA GIBSON: This is for the closed cell. 396 00:19:57,620 --> 00:19:59,120 Because the closed cell are the ones 397 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:01,118 that are going to have the gas pressure. 398 00:20:01,118 --> 00:20:03,576 If it's open cells, the gas can just move out of the cells. 399 00:20:03,576 --> 00:20:04,550 AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]? 400 00:20:04,550 --> 00:20:07,059 LORNA GIBSON: Oh, sorry, that was to show you 401 00:20:07,059 --> 00:20:08,350 that the Poisson's ratio was 0. 402 00:20:08,350 --> 00:20:09,725 And that's true for both of them. 403 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:36,250 So then we can look at the plastic collapse stress. 404 00:20:36,250 --> 00:20:38,710 Say we had a metal foam. 405 00:20:38,710 --> 00:20:40,800 And we do a calculation a little bit 406 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,080 like the one we did for the honeycombs, too. 407 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,130 So we say the failure occurs when the applied moment equals 408 00:20:46,130 --> 00:20:47,210 the plastic moment. 409 00:20:55,630 --> 00:20:57,950 And the applied moment is proportional 410 00:20:57,950 --> 00:21:00,736 to the applied stress times the length cubed. 411 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,940 So I'm going to call that applied stress-- our strength 412 00:21:06,940 --> 00:21:09,920 sigma star plastic times the length cubed. 413 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,760 So if you think of, say, the little schematic up here, 414 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,230 the force is going to go with stress times 415 00:21:16,230 --> 00:21:17,439 the length squared. 416 00:21:17,439 --> 00:21:19,480 And the moment's going to force times the length. 417 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:26,100 So it's the stress times the length cubed. 418 00:21:26,100 --> 00:21:33,010 And then the plastic moment goes as the yield strength 419 00:21:33,010 --> 00:21:34,300 times the thickness cubed. 420 00:21:37,410 --> 00:21:41,950 And then if I just combine those, 421 00:21:41,950 --> 00:21:45,760 I get that the plastic collapse stress in compression 422 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,550 is another constant-- I'm going to call it C5-- times the yield 423 00:21:49,550 --> 00:21:55,921 strength times the relative density to the 3/2 power. 424 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,610 And if we look at data, we find that the constant 425 00:22:03,610 --> 00:22:11,080 is about equal to 0.3. 426 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:16,290 And if I go to the next slide, here's 427 00:22:16,290 --> 00:22:22,480 a plot of the yield strength or the plastic collapse strength 428 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,840 of the foam divided by the yield strength of the solid, 429 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,900 plotted against the relative density. 430 00:22:26,900 --> 00:22:30,410 And that dark, bold line is this equation here. 431 00:22:30,410 --> 00:22:33,187 And you can see the data lie pretty well on that line. 432 00:22:33,187 --> 00:22:35,520 There's one data set that's a little bit above the line. 433 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,470 But you can see the slope of that data set is still 434 00:22:38,470 --> 00:22:39,116 about 3/2. 435 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,240 OK, and the same as in the honeycombs, 436 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,640 we could say that we can get elastic collapse 437 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,070 before the plastic collapse if we were at a low density. 438 00:23:28,070 --> 00:23:30,100 You can get the same thing in the foams. 439 00:23:30,100 --> 00:23:33,510 And you calculate out what the critical relative density is 440 00:23:33,510 --> 00:23:36,280 for that the same kind of way. 441 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:42,690 So we can say we can get elastic collapse precedes 442 00:23:42,690 --> 00:23:51,450 the plastic collapse if the elastic buckling 443 00:23:51,450 --> 00:23:57,190 stress is less than the plastic collapse stress. 444 00:23:57,190 --> 00:24:02,772 So all we do is make those two things equal to figure out 445 00:24:02,772 --> 00:24:04,230 the critical relative density where 446 00:24:04,230 --> 00:24:06,104 you get the transition from one to the other. 447 00:24:23,690 --> 00:24:28,000 So the relative density has to be less than 36 times the yield 448 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,910 strength of the solid over the Young's modulus 449 00:24:30,910 --> 00:24:38,070 of the solid squared in order to get buckling before yielding. 450 00:24:38,070 --> 00:24:39,570 And let's see, where can I put that? 451 00:24:44,410 --> 00:24:47,390 So for rigid polymers, that ratio 452 00:24:47,390 --> 00:24:51,140 of the strength of the solid over the modulus of the solid 453 00:24:51,140 --> 00:24:52,528 is about one over 30. 454 00:24:55,040 --> 00:25:00,420 And so the critical relative density for the transition 455 00:25:00,420 --> 00:25:03,130 is about 0.04. 456 00:25:03,130 --> 00:25:05,130 So you'd have to have a pretty low-density foam, 457 00:25:05,130 --> 00:25:06,850 but it's possible. 458 00:25:06,850 --> 00:25:18,300 And for metals, that ratio is about 1/1,000. 459 00:25:18,300 --> 00:25:23,960 And then the critical transition density is less than 10 460 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,437 to the minus 5. 461 00:25:25,437 --> 00:25:27,645 So essentially, it never happens for the metal foams. 462 00:25:47,250 --> 00:25:49,100 And then for the closed-cell foams, 463 00:25:49,100 --> 00:25:51,860 we could include the terms for face stretching 464 00:25:51,860 --> 00:25:53,080 and for the gas. 465 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,690 But in practice, the faces don't really contribute very much. 466 00:25:56,690 --> 00:25:59,900 And typically for foams like say metal foams 467 00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:03,616 or a rigid polymer that had a yield point, the faces rupture. 468 00:26:03,616 --> 00:26:05,240 And then if the faces rupture, then you 469 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,986 don't get the gas compression term, either. 470 00:26:07,986 --> 00:26:09,610 So I'll just write the full thing down. 471 00:26:09,610 --> 00:26:12,475 But typically, you don't need to use it. 472 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,110 So the first term would be from the edges bending. 473 00:27:06,439 --> 00:27:08,730 And the second term would be from the faces stretching. 474 00:27:13,430 --> 00:27:16,160 And this would be from the gas. 475 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,410 But in practice, the first term is really the only one 476 00:27:18,410 --> 00:27:20,120 that is significant. 477 00:27:52,210 --> 00:27:54,699 So for closed-cell foam, this equation 478 00:27:54,699 --> 00:27:56,240 works pretty well, too-- the same one 479 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:57,537 as for the open-cell foams. 480 00:28:49,850 --> 00:28:53,850 OK, so if we had, say, a ceramic foam that was brittle, 481 00:28:53,850 --> 00:28:55,790 there'd be a brittle crushing strength. 482 00:28:55,790 --> 00:28:57,790 And then we get failure when the applied moment 483 00:28:57,790 --> 00:29:01,630 M is equal to the fracture moment Mf. 484 00:29:01,630 --> 00:29:05,810 And this works very similar to the plastic yield strength. 485 00:29:05,810 --> 00:29:08,090 So we find the applied moment goes 486 00:29:08,090 --> 00:29:13,310 as the global stress times the length cubed. 487 00:29:13,310 --> 00:29:18,230 And the fracture moment goes into the cell wall strength 488 00:29:18,230 --> 00:29:20,946 times the cell wall thickness cubed. 489 00:29:24,030 --> 00:29:26,460 So the brittle crushing strength goes 490 00:29:26,460 --> 00:29:30,580 as another constant-- let's call it C6-- times the wall 491 00:29:30,580 --> 00:29:35,580 strength times the relative density to the 3/2 again. 492 00:29:39,650 --> 00:29:47,330 And C6 is about equal to 0.2. 493 00:29:47,330 --> 00:29:49,620 And typically, ceramic foams have open cells. 494 00:29:49,620 --> 00:29:53,920 So I'm just going to leave it at the open-celled formula there. 495 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,850 So there's one last thing for the compressive behavior, 496 00:29:56,850 --> 00:29:59,210 and that's the densification strain. 497 00:29:59,210 --> 00:30:01,080 And we just have an empirical relationship 498 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:02,740 for the densification strain. 499 00:30:18,610 --> 00:30:22,450 So if you compress the foam and you get to very large strains, 500 00:30:22,450 --> 00:30:24,770 then the cell walls start to touch, 501 00:30:24,770 --> 00:30:26,825 and the stress starts to rise steeply. 502 00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:28,700 And there's some strain at which that occurs. 503 00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:30,970 And we call that the densification strain. 504 00:30:30,970 --> 00:30:32,970 And in the limit, the modulus at that point 505 00:30:32,970 --> 00:30:34,830 would go to the modulus of the solid. 506 00:30:34,830 --> 00:30:37,150 If you could completely squeeze all the pores out, 507 00:30:37,150 --> 00:30:41,269 the stiffness of that would go to the modulus of the solid. 508 00:30:41,269 --> 00:30:43,810 And you might expect that that densification strain is just 1 509 00:30:43,810 --> 00:30:45,930 minus the relative density, but it actually 510 00:30:45,930 --> 00:30:47,680 occurs at a slightly smaller strain. 511 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,110 So in a large compressive stress, or strain, 512 00:30:59,110 --> 00:31:02,205 I guess we could say, cell walls touch, 513 00:31:02,205 --> 00:31:03,830 and we start to get this densification. 514 00:31:32,030 --> 00:31:33,500 So the modulus in the limit would 515 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:36,900 go to the modulus of the solid. 516 00:31:36,900 --> 00:31:41,800 And you might expect that the densification 517 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:47,570 strain was just equal to 1 minus the relative density. 518 00:31:47,570 --> 00:31:50,100 But it occurs at a little bit less than that. 519 00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:55,780 So empirically, we find that it's just 1 minus 1.4 times 520 00:31:55,780 --> 00:31:58,850 the relative density. 521 00:31:58,850 --> 00:32:00,640 And then I have this plot here, which 522 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,565 is really just fitting a line to that data for densification 523 00:32:03,565 --> 00:32:04,065 strain. 524 00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:12,060 So those equations describe the compressive stress 525 00:32:12,060 --> 00:32:13,940 or the compressive behavior of the foam. 526 00:32:13,940 --> 00:32:17,670 So we've got the moduli, we've got the three compressive 527 00:32:17,670 --> 00:32:20,210 strengths, and we've got the densification strain. 528 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,420 So what we're going to do later on in the course is 529 00:32:25,420 --> 00:32:28,010 we'll use those models to look at how 530 00:32:28,010 --> 00:32:30,220 we can use foams and things like sandwich panels 531 00:32:30,220 --> 00:32:32,102 and looking at energy absorption. 532 00:32:32,102 --> 00:32:34,060 And we'll also look at these equations in terms 533 00:32:34,060 --> 00:32:37,080 of some biomedical materials-- looking at trabecular bone, 534 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,979 and looking at tissue engineering scaffolds. 535 00:32:39,979 --> 00:32:42,020 So there's one last property I wanted to go over, 536 00:32:42,020 --> 00:32:43,610 and that's the fracture toughness. 537 00:32:43,610 --> 00:32:45,360 So if we were pulling the foam in tension, 538 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:46,894 and we had a crack in the foam, we'd 539 00:32:46,894 --> 00:32:48,810 want to know what the fracture toughness would 540 00:32:48,810 --> 00:32:50,170 be for a brittle foam. 541 00:32:50,170 --> 00:32:52,550 And this follows the same sort of argument 542 00:32:52,550 --> 00:32:53,752 as we had for the honeycomb. 543 00:32:53,752 --> 00:32:55,460 So all of these equations really are just 544 00:32:55,460 --> 00:32:58,411 following the same kinds of arguments. 545 00:32:58,411 --> 00:33:00,410 But you can kind of see how having the honeycomb 546 00:33:00,410 --> 00:33:05,810 calculations makes it easier to do the foam ones. 547 00:33:05,810 --> 00:33:09,340 So we'll do the fracture toughness calculation, 548 00:33:09,340 --> 00:33:12,970 and then I want to talk a little bit about material selection 549 00:33:12,970 --> 00:33:15,830 and selection charts for foams. 550 00:33:15,830 --> 00:33:17,210 So that's less equation-y. 551 00:33:47,070 --> 00:33:49,700 OK, and we're just going to look at open cells here. 552 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,660 So imagine we have a crack of length 2a. 553 00:33:59,860 --> 00:34:02,890 And we have some remote stress applied, 554 00:34:02,890 --> 00:34:09,510 so remote tensile stress, so I'm going to call that sigma 555 00:34:09,510 --> 00:34:11,830 infinity-- the far-away stress. 556 00:34:11,830 --> 00:34:16,090 And then we have a local stress on the cell walls. 557 00:34:16,090 --> 00:34:19,730 I'm going to call that signal local. 558 00:34:19,730 --> 00:34:21,552 So I have a little schematic that kind of 559 00:34:21,552 --> 00:34:22,510 shows what we're doing. 560 00:34:22,510 --> 00:34:24,260 So we're pulling on it. 561 00:34:24,260 --> 00:34:25,139 There's some crack. 562 00:34:25,139 --> 00:34:28,580 The crack length is large compared to the cell size. 563 00:34:28,580 --> 00:34:32,389 And we want to know what the fracture toughness is. 564 00:34:32,389 --> 00:34:36,110 So we can say from fracture mechanics the local stress is 565 00:34:36,110 --> 00:34:38,540 going to be equal to some constant times 566 00:34:38,540 --> 00:34:43,389 the faraway stress times the square root of pi a 567 00:34:43,389 --> 00:34:46,380 over the square root of 2 pi r. 568 00:34:46,380 --> 00:34:49,329 And that's at a distance r from the head of the crack tip. 569 00:35:03,130 --> 00:35:05,190 And if we look at our little schematic here, 570 00:35:05,190 --> 00:35:08,580 we could say it's hard to say exactly where the crack tip is, 571 00:35:08,580 --> 00:35:10,100 but it would be somewhere in here. 572 00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:12,160 And we'd say this next unbroken cell 573 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,810 wall is a distance r ahead of the crack tip. 574 00:35:14,810 --> 00:35:16,580 And that r is going to be related to l. 575 00:35:16,580 --> 00:35:19,560 It's going to be some function of l. 576 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:34,000 So I can say the next unbroken wall ahead of the crack tip 577 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:39,280 at some distance r is going to be related to l. 578 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:45,950 And that's subject to a force, which 579 00:35:45,950 --> 00:35:48,125 is going to be the local stress times l squared. 580 00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:56,500 So that force is going to go as local stress times l squared. 581 00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:59,140 And the local stress-- I can substitute this thing here 582 00:35:59,140 --> 00:36:00,910 in-- that's going to be proportional 583 00:36:00,910 --> 00:36:03,160 to the faraway stress. 584 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,874 And I'm going to get rid of the pi's. 585 00:36:05,874 --> 00:36:07,290 And I'm going to substitute for r. 586 00:36:07,290 --> 00:36:08,690 I'm going to put in l. 587 00:36:08,690 --> 00:36:10,940 So it's going to be proportional to the faraway stress 588 00:36:10,940 --> 00:36:15,907 times the root of a over l and times l squared there. 589 00:36:20,862 --> 00:36:22,320 And then we're going to say, again, 590 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,430 the edges are going to fail when the applied moment equals 591 00:36:24,430 --> 00:36:25,300 the fracture moment. 592 00:36:46,420 --> 00:36:48,590 And the fracture moment is going to go 593 00:36:48,590 --> 00:36:53,640 as the modulus of rupture of the cell walls times t cubed. 594 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,480 And the applied moment is going to go as f times l. 595 00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,900 And I've got f from up there, so that 596 00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:03,910 goes as the faraway stress, sigma infinite, 597 00:37:03,910 --> 00:37:06,200 times the root of a over l. 598 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,340 And now I've got l cubed, because there's 599 00:37:08,340 --> 00:37:10,740 an l squared there and there's an l down here. 600 00:37:15,210 --> 00:37:17,960 And then if I just equate those, then this 601 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:23,110 is going to go as sigma fs times t cubed, like that. 602 00:37:23,110 --> 00:37:26,780 So then I can say the fracture strength 603 00:37:26,780 --> 00:37:29,090 is equal to my faraway stress. 604 00:37:29,090 --> 00:37:32,560 That's going to go as my modulus of rupture times 605 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:40,396 the root of l for a times t over l cubed. 606 00:37:40,396 --> 00:37:41,770 And then my fracture toughness is 607 00:37:41,770 --> 00:37:45,150 going to be this tensile stress times the root of pi a. 608 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,610 So there's going to be some other constant here, which 609 00:37:57,610 --> 00:37:59,405 I'm going to call that C8. 610 00:37:59,405 --> 00:38:03,070 We've got the modulus of rupture of the solid. 611 00:38:03,070 --> 00:38:05,030 I've got the square root of l, and I'm 612 00:38:05,030 --> 00:38:07,317 going to multiply it by pi so it's like other fraction 613 00:38:07,317 --> 00:38:08,525 mechanics kinds of equations. 614 00:38:13,054 --> 00:38:15,220 And then we multiply that times the relative density 615 00:38:15,220 --> 00:38:16,484 to the 3/2 power. 616 00:38:19,210 --> 00:38:23,320 And here, if we look at data, we find that that constant 617 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:28,840 is about equal to 0.65. 618 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,760 And here's another one of these plots. 619 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,240 So here I've normalized the fracture toughness of the foams 620 00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:35,920 by the modulus of rupture of the cell 621 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:37,770 walls times the root of pi l. 622 00:38:37,770 --> 00:38:40,334 So I've taken the cell size into account here, 623 00:38:40,334 --> 00:38:42,250 and I've plotted against the relative density. 624 00:38:42,250 --> 00:38:43,720 And that equation there is the same 625 00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:45,900 as this equation I've got down on the board. 626 00:38:48,610 --> 00:38:50,360 And this is the only one of the properties 627 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,570 that we've looked at that depends on the cell size. 628 00:38:53,570 --> 00:38:55,350 There's a cell size dependence here. 629 00:39:07,020 --> 00:39:11,755 All right, so I think that's all the modeling of the foams. 630 00:39:17,570 --> 00:39:19,910 Are we good? 631 00:39:19,910 --> 00:39:21,240 I gave you a lot of equations. 632 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:21,850 We're good? 633 00:39:21,850 --> 00:39:22,350 All right. 634 00:40:13,950 --> 00:40:16,410 So I want to talk about how we might design foams 635 00:40:16,410 --> 00:40:17,625 to improve their properties. 636 00:40:17,625 --> 00:40:19,000 And then I want to talk about how 637 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,890 we might select foams for certain applications 638 00:40:21,890 --> 00:40:24,100 and look at selection charts. 639 00:40:24,100 --> 00:40:26,350 So when we've been talking about the foams, especially 640 00:40:26,350 --> 00:40:28,080 the open-cell foams, we've been saying 641 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:32,990 their deformation is largely by bending of the cell edges. 642 00:40:32,990 --> 00:40:34,720 And if we could do something to increase 643 00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:37,710 the stiffness of the edges or the strength of the edges, 644 00:40:37,710 --> 00:40:41,180 then that would increase the overall properties of the foam. 645 00:40:41,180 --> 00:40:44,150 And there's a couple of ways to think about doing that. 646 00:40:44,150 --> 00:40:46,600 So the foam properties-- if the foam 647 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,270 is controlled by bending of the edges, 648 00:40:48,270 --> 00:40:50,190 and the edges have some flexural rigidity, 649 00:40:50,190 --> 00:40:53,790 EI, if we could increase that EI of the edges, 650 00:40:53,790 --> 00:40:56,730 we would increase the properties of the foam. 651 00:40:56,730 --> 00:40:59,980 And one way to do that is by making the edges hollow. 652 00:40:59,980 --> 00:41:03,540 So if we had hollow edges, and you had a tube, 653 00:41:03,540 --> 00:41:05,270 then that would increase the EI. 654 00:41:05,270 --> 00:41:08,870 And we can work out how much it's going to increase them. 655 00:41:08,870 --> 00:41:16,520 And I have a little example here of-- a natural example 656 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:20,150 of hollow foam struts. 657 00:41:23,010 --> 00:41:24,677 So this is a grass. 658 00:41:24,677 --> 00:41:26,260 I don't know what kind of grass it is. 659 00:41:26,260 --> 00:41:27,379 I just saw this grass. 660 00:41:27,379 --> 00:41:28,920 And we picked some different grasses, 661 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,440 and we took some SEM pictures. 662 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:35,270 And it has a really kind of common structure for grasses. 663 00:41:35,270 --> 00:41:37,730 It's very common for grass stems to have 664 00:41:37,730 --> 00:41:42,130 sort of a solid outer part and then a foam-like inner part. 665 00:41:42,130 --> 00:41:44,310 It's so common that botanists have a name for it. 666 00:41:44,310 --> 00:41:46,060 They call it the core-rind structure. 667 00:41:46,060 --> 00:41:48,440 And if you take one of these grass 668 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,780 stems, and you look at the sort of foamy bit in the middle, 669 00:41:51,780 --> 00:41:54,426 and you do a SEM picture of that, 670 00:41:54,426 --> 00:41:56,550 you can see that the little cell walls are actually 671 00:41:56,550 --> 00:41:57,740 little hollow tubes. 672 00:41:57,740 --> 00:42:00,930 So one of these things-- it's a little hollow tube. 673 00:42:00,930 --> 00:42:02,610 So what I wanted to do is work out 674 00:42:02,610 --> 00:42:05,374 how much the modulus of the foam would 675 00:42:05,374 --> 00:42:07,040 increase if you could make all the edges 676 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,406 into little hollow tubes. 677 00:42:09,406 --> 00:42:10,780 So we're going to start by saying 678 00:42:10,780 --> 00:42:13,825 the foam behavior is dominated by cell bending, 679 00:42:13,825 --> 00:42:14,860 so edge bending. 680 00:42:32,170 --> 00:42:36,120 And the foam properties can be increased by increasing 681 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:37,620 the EI of the cell wall. 682 00:42:52,256 --> 00:42:54,130 So there's a couple of ways we could do that. 683 00:42:54,130 --> 00:42:57,242 So the first one is looking at hollow walls. 684 00:43:03,940 --> 00:43:06,280 So imagine I have a thin-walled tube-- just 685 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:07,867 a circular, thin-walled tube. 686 00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,130 There's my little wall there. 687 00:43:17,130 --> 00:43:23,460 It has some radius little r, and a wall thickness t. 688 00:43:23,460 --> 00:43:25,510 And then imagine I have the same amount of mass, 689 00:43:25,510 --> 00:43:29,340 but now I have a solid circular section. 690 00:43:29,340 --> 00:43:35,520 And I'm going to say the radius of that is big R. 691 00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:42,590 So for our thin-walled tube, the moment of inertia 692 00:43:42,590 --> 00:43:48,540 is pi r cubed times the thickness, t, if it's thin. 693 00:43:48,540 --> 00:43:57,554 And for our solid circular section, 694 00:43:57,554 --> 00:44:04,180 I is going to be pi big R to the 4th over 4. 695 00:44:04,180 --> 00:44:06,600 And if I say I want to set this up so that the masses are 696 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,740 equal, then the areas of the cross-sections 697 00:44:09,740 --> 00:44:12,541 have to be equal-- say it's from the same material. 698 00:44:15,212 --> 00:44:16,670 So the masses are going to be equal 699 00:44:16,670 --> 00:44:24,280 if pi R squared is equal to 2 pi r t. 700 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,610 So I'm going to solve here for R. 701 00:44:26,610 --> 00:44:28,780 So the pi's are going to cancel out. 702 00:44:28,780 --> 00:44:33,210 So the masses are equal if R is equal to the square root of 2 703 00:44:33,210 --> 00:44:34,637 times r times t. 704 00:44:38,284 --> 00:44:39,700 And then what we're going to do is 705 00:44:39,700 --> 00:44:42,080 see how the big is the moment of inertia 706 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:45,910 of the tube relative to the solid. 707 00:44:45,910 --> 00:44:50,040 And the tube is pi little r cubed t. 708 00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:56,355 And the solid was pi R to the 4th, divided by 4. 709 00:44:56,355 --> 00:44:57,730 And I'm going to get rid of the R 710 00:44:57,730 --> 00:44:59,811 here, and get rid of the pi's there. 711 00:45:03,870 --> 00:45:10,270 So R to the 4th is going to be 4r squared t squared. 712 00:45:10,270 --> 00:45:11,860 So the 4s are going to go. 713 00:45:11,860 --> 00:45:16,850 And this boils down to r over t. 714 00:45:16,850 --> 00:45:21,340 So if I had a thin-walled tube, the moment of inertia 715 00:45:21,340 --> 00:45:25,830 is going to be r over t bigger than if I had the same mass 716 00:45:25,830 --> 00:45:27,472 in a solid circular section. 717 00:45:27,472 --> 00:45:28,930 So you can see for the little plant 718 00:45:28,930 --> 00:45:30,460 here, by making a thin-walled tube, 719 00:45:30,460 --> 00:45:32,310 you're increasing the stiffness of the foam 720 00:45:32,310 --> 00:45:34,060 with the same amount of material. 721 00:45:34,060 --> 00:45:37,120 That's the idea. 722 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,887 And you can do a similar kind of analysis for other properties. 723 00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,440 So that's if we have hollow tubes. 724 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,840 So another option is we could have cell walls that 725 00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:03,390 are sandwich structures. 726 00:46:03,390 --> 00:46:05,440 So imagine if the cell walls themselves 727 00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,120 were little, tiny sandwich structures. 728 00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:48,400 So when you have a sandwich beam, what 729 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,960 you have is too stiff, strong faces 730 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,180 that are separated by some sort of porous core, 731 00:46:53,180 --> 00:46:56,330 like a honeycomb or a foam or balsa wood. 732 00:46:56,330 --> 00:46:59,220 And the idea with the sandwich structure-- 733 00:46:59,220 --> 00:47:06,080 if I draw a little sketch of the sandwich, here's my faces. 734 00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:07,730 So imagine those are solid. 735 00:47:07,730 --> 00:47:09,800 So they might be aluminum sheets, 736 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,567 or they might be fiber reinforced composites. 737 00:47:12,567 --> 00:47:14,400 And then we have some sort of cellular thing 738 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:19,080 here as the core. 739 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:23,750 And the idea is, that's analogous to an I-beam. 740 00:47:23,750 --> 00:47:28,690 So in the sandwich beam, we have two, 741 00:47:28,690 --> 00:47:37,600 stiff, strong faces separated by a lightweight core. 742 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:48,770 So the core is typically a honeycomb, or a foam, 743 00:47:48,770 --> 00:47:49,980 or balsa wood. 744 00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:56,320 And the idea is, you increase the moment 745 00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,337 of inertia of the cross-section with little increase in weight. 746 00:48:13,550 --> 00:48:16,550 And if you think of an I-beam, an I-beam 747 00:48:16,550 --> 00:48:19,060 has a large moment of inertia, because you're separating 748 00:48:19,060 --> 00:48:20,840 the flanges by the web. 749 00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:22,900 And the sandwich beam works in the same way. 750 00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:25,359 You're separating the faces by the core. 751 00:48:25,359 --> 00:48:26,900 But the core doesn't weigh very much, 752 00:48:26,900 --> 00:48:29,410 because it's a cellular thing. 753 00:48:29,410 --> 00:48:33,780 So the faces of the sandwich are like the flanges in the I-beam. 754 00:48:40,170 --> 00:48:41,810 And then the core is like the web. 755 00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,465 So the idea is to make something called a micro-sandwich foam. 756 00:48:57,530 --> 00:49:00,660 So what you want to do is make the cell walls into sandwiches. 757 00:49:00,660 --> 00:49:03,760 And one way to do that is to disperse a large volume 758 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,680 fraction of thin-walled spheres into the foam. 759 00:49:23,210 --> 00:49:27,130 And you have to get the geometry right to make it work. 760 00:49:27,130 --> 00:49:32,070 So let me draw a little kind of sketch here of how it works. 761 00:49:32,070 --> 00:49:33,818 So here's our thin-walled spheres. 762 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:44,880 And then you're going to distribute those in a foam. 763 00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,135 Here's another sphere over here. 764 00:49:47,135 --> 00:49:48,445 The spheres are not perfect. 765 00:49:51,570 --> 00:49:53,195 Let's say there's another one in here. 766 00:49:58,170 --> 00:50:00,934 And then the idea is this stuff in here would be the foam. 767 00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:07,206 So these guys are hollow spheres. 768 00:50:13,250 --> 00:50:17,100 And say the spheres have a diameter D. 769 00:50:17,100 --> 00:50:21,570 And say they have a wall thickness here of t. 770 00:50:21,570 --> 00:50:24,930 And say that the separation of the spheres I'm 771 00:50:24,930 --> 00:50:27,290 going to call c. 772 00:50:27,290 --> 00:50:28,870 You can see that there. 773 00:50:28,870 --> 00:50:32,710 And then the cell size of the foam I'm going to call e. 774 00:50:37,450 --> 00:50:41,060 So there's a bunch of parameters you have to kind of play with 775 00:50:41,060 --> 00:50:42,044 to get this to work. 776 00:50:46,100 --> 00:50:50,080 So you have to have thin-walled spheres so the faces are thin. 777 00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,640 The sandwich panels work best when the faces are thin. 778 00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:56,570 So you need the thickness of the sphere to be much less than D. 779 00:50:56,570 --> 00:50:59,770 You need the faces to be stiff relative to the foam. 780 00:50:59,770 --> 00:51:02,800 So you need the modulus of the sphere material 781 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,110 to be greater than the modulus of the foam. 782 00:51:07,810 --> 00:51:10,910 And you need the volume fraction of the spheres 783 00:51:10,910 --> 00:51:13,550 to be relatively high to get the spheres close enough 784 00:51:13,550 --> 00:51:15,777 together for this to work. 785 00:51:15,777 --> 00:51:17,360 So you want that volume fraction to be 786 00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:20,690 something like 50% to 60%. 787 00:51:20,690 --> 00:51:23,850 And for the foam, you need to have the foam cell 788 00:51:23,850 --> 00:51:27,075 size less than the separation between the spheres. 789 00:51:27,075 --> 00:51:28,950 You need to have a number of-- you can't just 790 00:51:28,950 --> 00:51:30,090 have one pore in here. 791 00:51:30,090 --> 00:51:31,660 That's not really like a foam. 792 00:51:31,660 --> 00:51:34,180 It won't behave like a foam as a continuum. 793 00:51:34,180 --> 00:51:36,700 So you need to have a number of different cell sizes 794 00:51:36,700 --> 00:51:40,010 in between each sphere. 795 00:51:40,010 --> 00:51:41,830 And so you need the cell size of the foam 796 00:51:41,830 --> 00:51:44,670 to be a lot less than the separation of the spheres 797 00:51:44,670 --> 00:51:45,810 there, c. 798 00:51:45,810 --> 00:51:47,950 But if you can control this geometry, 799 00:51:47,950 --> 00:51:49,750 you can get the sandwich effect. 800 00:51:49,750 --> 00:51:51,992 And you can get improved properties by doing that. 801 00:51:51,992 --> 00:51:53,450 So there's ways you can play around 802 00:51:53,450 --> 00:51:58,297 with the structure of the foams to improve their properties. 803 00:51:58,297 --> 00:51:59,880 So that was one thing I wanted to say. 804 00:52:32,250 --> 00:52:34,730 Another way to improve the properties 805 00:52:34,730 --> 00:52:37,570 of a foam-like material is to use 806 00:52:37,570 --> 00:52:39,420 one of those lattice materials. 807 00:52:39,420 --> 00:52:41,570 So we've been talking about ways to improve 808 00:52:41,570 --> 00:52:42,580 the bending stiffness. 809 00:52:42,580 --> 00:52:43,650 But if you could get rid of the bending 810 00:52:43,650 --> 00:52:46,410 altogether and have axial deformation in the cell walls, 811 00:52:46,410 --> 00:52:47,950 that would be much stiffer. 812 00:52:47,950 --> 00:52:49,330 And you can get axial deformation 813 00:52:49,330 --> 00:52:52,520 by having those 3D truss kind of materials. 814 00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:54,880 So I have a picture of this. 815 00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,430 There we go, so there's one of those 3D truss materials. 816 00:52:57,430 --> 00:52:59,890 So another alternative is to sort of get rid of the bending 817 00:52:59,890 --> 00:53:02,642 altogether, and to try to make a truss-type material. 818 00:53:41,297 --> 00:53:42,880 So there's various ways to make these. 819 00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,510 I think that we talked about a few of them earlier on. 820 00:53:45,510 --> 00:53:49,640 And you can analyze them as truss-type structures. 821 00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:51,380 And I can just run through a sort 822 00:53:51,380 --> 00:53:54,300 of little dimensional argument to get the modulus. 823 00:53:54,300 --> 00:53:59,410 So the modulus is going to go as the stress over the strain. 824 00:53:59,410 --> 00:54:03,630 The stress is going to go as a force over a length squared. 825 00:54:03,630 --> 00:54:06,350 The strain's going to go as a deformation over l. 826 00:54:06,350 --> 00:54:09,370 So this is just like what we had before for the foams. 827 00:54:09,370 --> 00:54:11,640 But in this case, the deformation 828 00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:13,400 is going to go with the force times 829 00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:18,210 the length over the area of the cross-section divided 830 00:54:18,210 --> 00:54:22,840 by Es, because we're pulling it or pushing it axially. 831 00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:30,640 So that goes as Fl over t squared Es. 832 00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:32,740 And if I just put that back in the equation 833 00:54:32,740 --> 00:54:37,180 here for the modulus, I get that we've got F over l. 834 00:54:37,180 --> 00:54:43,910 And I've got delta here, so that's F l t squared Es. 835 00:54:43,910 --> 00:54:45,930 And you just get the modulus goes 836 00:54:45,930 --> 00:54:51,940 as the modulus of the solid times t over l squared. 837 00:54:51,940 --> 00:54:57,020 And that goes as the modulus of the solid times 838 00:54:57,020 --> 00:54:58,770 the relative density. 839 00:54:58,770 --> 00:55:00,920 So for the open-celled foams, the modulus 840 00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:02,690 went as the relative density squared. 841 00:55:02,690 --> 00:55:06,330 So if it was 10% solid, the modulus would be 0.01. 842 00:55:06,330 --> 00:55:09,140 And this is saying if it's 10% solid, the modulus is 0.1. 843 00:55:09,140 --> 00:55:11,480 So it's much bigger. 844 00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,970 So this is all sort of well and good. 845 00:55:13,970 --> 00:55:18,740 The only difficulty is that when you look at the modulus, 846 00:55:18,740 --> 00:55:20,020 you can do reasonably well. 847 00:55:20,020 --> 00:55:21,820 But when you look at the strength, some of the members 848 00:55:21,820 --> 00:55:23,570 are going to be inevitably in compression. 849 00:55:23,570 --> 00:55:25,224 When you have these truss materials, 850 00:55:25,224 --> 00:55:26,890 some members are going to be in tension. 851 00:55:26,890 --> 00:55:28,723 Some members are going to be in compression. 852 00:55:28,723 --> 00:55:30,790 And the compression members tend to buckle. 853 00:55:30,790 --> 00:55:32,530 And once the compression members buckle, 854 00:55:32,530 --> 00:55:35,260 then you're back to the same kind of strength relationship 855 00:55:35,260 --> 00:55:36,690 that you have for the foam. 856 00:55:36,690 --> 00:55:39,280 So that's one of the difficulties of this. 857 00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:48,450 So let me say that the strength-- so if the strength 858 00:55:48,450 --> 00:55:50,770 was controlled by uni-axial yield, 859 00:55:50,770 --> 00:55:52,934 it would go linearly with relative density. 860 00:55:52,934 --> 00:55:55,100 But if it goes with buckling, it goes as the square. 861 00:56:17,830 --> 00:56:20,678 So I'll just say the compression members can buckle. 862 00:56:35,568 --> 00:56:40,680 And say you had a metal lattice. 863 00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:43,890 Then there's some interaction between the plastic behavior 864 00:56:43,890 --> 00:56:44,670 and the buckling. 865 00:56:44,670 --> 00:56:47,620 And you use what's called the tangent modulus instead 866 00:56:47,620 --> 00:56:49,680 of just the Young's modulus. 867 00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:52,040 And the tangent modulus is lower. 868 00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,400 And there's also what's called knock-down factors that 869 00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:55,433 can be large, too. 870 00:56:58,810 --> 00:57:01,183 So the knock-down factor can be like 50%. 871 00:57:07,170 --> 00:57:09,790 So the measured strength can be half of what 872 00:57:09,790 --> 00:57:12,820 you thought it was going to be. 873 00:57:12,820 --> 00:57:14,861 This should be a squared over here. 874 00:57:14,861 --> 00:57:15,360 Sorry. 875 00:57:18,450 --> 00:57:21,600 So even though the stiffness of these 3D trusses 876 00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:25,150 can be quite good, the strength often isn't quite as good 877 00:57:25,150 --> 00:57:26,270 as one might hope. 878 00:57:26,270 --> 00:57:30,825 So that's one of the issues with them. 879 00:57:30,825 --> 00:57:31,325 All right. 880 00:57:43,474 --> 00:57:45,140 So do you see the idea, though, with all 881 00:57:45,140 --> 00:57:48,040 these different micro structures, 882 00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:49,970 is that you can control the structure in a way 883 00:57:49,970 --> 00:57:51,770 to try to increase the bending stiffness 884 00:57:51,770 --> 00:57:53,228 or get rid of the bending stiffness 885 00:57:53,228 --> 00:57:54,620 and increase the axial stiffness? 886 00:57:54,620 --> 00:57:56,870 So there's things you can do to play around with that. 887 00:58:20,110 --> 00:58:22,860 And I wanted to talk a bit today about material selection 888 00:58:22,860 --> 00:58:23,880 charts for foams. 889 00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,460 So when we talked about woods, we started talking about this. 890 00:58:26,460 --> 00:58:29,320 Remember, I derived a little performance index. 891 00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:31,370 We said if we had a material and we 892 00:58:31,370 --> 00:58:32,880 wanted to have a given stiffness, 893 00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:34,338 and we wanted to minimize the mass, 894 00:58:34,338 --> 00:58:37,110 we had that performance index that was E to the 1/2 over rho. 895 00:58:37,110 --> 00:58:39,910 And we had a chart of modulus versus density. 896 00:58:39,910 --> 00:58:41,530 And we saw that wood was really good. 897 00:58:41,530 --> 00:58:44,310 You can do that for other sorts of properties, not just 898 00:58:44,310 --> 00:58:44,810 modulus. 899 00:58:44,810 --> 00:58:49,140 So you can make-- depending on what the mechanical requirement 900 00:58:49,140 --> 00:58:52,050 is, you can work out different performance indices. 901 00:58:52,050 --> 00:58:54,500 So I want to go into that in a little bit more detail. 902 00:58:54,500 --> 00:58:56,880 So the question is, how do we select 903 00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:01,032 the best material for some mechanical requirement? 904 00:59:33,522 --> 00:59:35,730 So in the wood section, we looked at the minimum mass 905 00:59:35,730 --> 00:59:38,216 of a beam of a given stiffness. 906 00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:45,300 And we saw that the performance index was E to the 1/2 907 00:59:45,300 --> 00:59:46,094 over rho. 908 00:59:48,767 --> 00:59:50,850 So let me do another one of these little examples, 909 00:59:50,850 --> 00:59:52,558 and then I'll show you some more of them. 910 00:59:52,558 --> 00:59:55,620 So another example would be what material-- minimize 911 00:59:55,620 --> 00:59:58,130 the mass of a beam of a given strength or a given failure 912 00:59:58,130 --> 00:59:58,630 load. 913 01:00:22,020 --> 01:00:26,560 So we'll call the failure load Pf. 914 01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:29,450 And we can see the maximum stress in the beam 915 01:00:29,450 --> 01:00:32,370 is going to be the moment in the beam times the distance 916 01:00:32,370 --> 01:00:34,600 from the neutral axis y, and divided 917 01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:36,170 by the moment of inertia. 918 01:00:36,170 --> 01:00:40,274 So here, M is the maximum moment in the beam. 919 01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,535 And y is the maximum distance from the neutral axis. 920 01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,560 And I is the moment of inertia. 921 01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:05,800 And I'm going to say i goes as t to the 4. 922 01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:08,830 And I'm going to define a failure stress of the material 923 01:01:08,830 --> 01:01:09,610 sigma f. 924 01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:24,250 So sigma max is going to go as my failure 925 01:01:24,250 --> 01:01:25,490 load times the length. 926 01:01:25,490 --> 01:01:27,080 That would be the moment. 927 01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:30,750 The distance from the neutral axis is going to go as t. 928 01:01:30,750 --> 01:01:33,576 And the moment of inertia is going to go as t to the 4th. 929 01:01:36,470 --> 01:01:39,740 And that's going to be the failure strength there. 930 01:01:39,740 --> 01:01:41,626 So I can solve this for t. 931 01:01:41,626 --> 01:01:43,750 And then I'm going to write the mass in terms of t, 932 01:01:43,750 --> 01:01:45,640 and put that in there. 933 01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:55,410 So here t goes as Pf l divided by sigma f. 934 01:01:55,410 --> 01:01:57,530 And that's going to be to the 1/3 power. 935 01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:05,107 I guess I can scoot over here. 936 01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:32,470 Then we can say that the mass M goes as the density of times 937 01:02:32,470 --> 01:02:35,520 t squared times l. 938 01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:48,950 So the mass M is going to go as rho times l times t squared. 939 01:02:48,950 --> 01:02:53,240 So that whole thing goes to the 2/3 power. 940 01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:55,450 So if we look at the material properties, 941 01:02:55,450 --> 01:03:01,010 the mass goes as the density times the failure stress 942 01:03:01,010 --> 01:03:02,642 raised to the 2/3 power. 943 01:03:02,642 --> 01:03:04,100 So if we want to minimize the mass, 944 01:03:04,100 --> 01:03:07,450 we want to minimize rho over sigma f to the 2/3, 945 01:03:07,450 --> 01:03:12,020 or we want to maximize sigma F to the 2/3 over rho. 946 01:03:19,150 --> 01:03:21,456 So that's the performance index for that case. 947 01:03:25,460 --> 01:03:27,950 So we can obtain these performance indices 948 01:03:27,950 --> 01:03:29,960 for different loading configurations 949 01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:32,330 and different mechanical requirements. 950 01:03:32,330 --> 01:03:34,530 And I don't want to go through a whole lot of them, 951 01:03:34,530 --> 01:03:37,840 but I'm going to put this up with the notes. 952 01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:40,135 So this is from Mike Ashby's book on Material Selection 953 01:03:40,135 --> 01:03:41,720 in Mechanical Design. 954 01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:44,680 And this is a whole series of these performance indices 955 01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:47,560 for different situations, for things 956 01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:49,760 loaded in torsion, for columns and buckling, 957 01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:51,640 for panels and bending. 958 01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:53,210 So these ones are all for stiffness. 959 01:03:53,210 --> 01:03:56,220 And they all involve a modulus raised to some power divided 960 01:03:56,220 --> 01:03:57,530 by a density. 961 01:03:57,530 --> 01:04:01,800 So a tie in tension, c over rho, the beam in bending 962 01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:03,580 is E to the 1/2 over rho. 963 01:04:03,580 --> 01:04:06,370 A plate in bending is E to 1/3 over rho. 964 01:04:06,370 --> 01:04:08,420 So you don't need to memorize those. 965 01:04:08,420 --> 01:04:11,850 But you can see you can derive these for different situations. 966 01:04:11,850 --> 01:04:14,710 And here's another one for strength-limited design. 967 01:04:14,710 --> 01:04:19,450 So the shaft is, depending on what the specifications are, 968 01:04:19,450 --> 01:04:22,780 it's the strength raised to the 2/3 power over rho. 969 01:04:22,780 --> 01:04:25,740 The beam loaded in bending-- the top one there-- sigma f 970 01:04:25,740 --> 01:04:26,790 to the 2/3 over rho. 971 01:04:26,790 --> 01:04:27,940 That's what we just did. 972 01:04:27,940 --> 01:04:30,600 So there's all these different kind of performance indices. 973 01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:32,670 So depending on what your situation is, 974 01:04:32,670 --> 01:04:34,770 you would pick one of these indices. 975 01:04:34,770 --> 01:04:37,440 And then what you can do is use these material selection 976 01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:40,580 charts, which plot one property against another 977 01:04:40,580 --> 01:04:42,247 on log-log scales. 978 01:04:42,247 --> 01:04:44,080 And because all of these performance indices 979 01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:46,160 involve a power, they always end up 980 01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:48,940 being a straight line on your log-log plot. 981 01:04:48,940 --> 01:04:50,630 And here this one, I think, is the same 982 01:04:50,630 --> 01:04:52,850 as what I showed you for the wood. 983 01:04:52,850 --> 01:04:57,080 This one's the modulus here plotted against density. 984 01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:58,260 So foams are down here. 985 01:04:58,260 --> 01:05:00,487 And other engineering materials are over here. 986 01:05:03,229 --> 01:05:05,520 And these guidelines here are the different performance 987 01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:05,810 indices. 988 01:05:05,810 --> 01:05:06,955 So this one's E over rho. 989 01:05:06,955 --> 01:05:08,670 This one's E to the 1/2 over rho. 990 01:05:08,670 --> 01:05:10,530 This one's E to the 1/3 over rho. 991 01:05:10,530 --> 01:05:12,850 And for this case here, as you move the lines up 992 01:05:12,850 --> 01:05:15,930 to the top left-hand corner, E is getting bigger. 993 01:05:15,930 --> 01:05:17,090 Rho is getting smaller. 994 01:05:17,090 --> 01:05:19,100 And so the actual value of the performance index 995 01:05:19,100 --> 01:05:20,200 is getting bigger. 996 01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:22,630 So you can use this to select a material. 997 01:05:22,630 --> 01:05:24,950 So we've made these charts for foams as well. 998 01:05:27,530 --> 01:05:30,017 So here's a couple of charts for foams. 999 01:05:30,017 --> 01:05:32,350 And I think what I'm going to do is just go through them 1000 01:05:32,350 --> 01:05:32,854 quickly. 1001 01:05:32,854 --> 01:05:34,520 And there aren't really that many notes, 1002 01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:36,120 so I'll just put the notes on the website. 1003 01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:38,170 And you can come and write all the notes down. 1004 01:05:38,170 --> 01:05:40,330 And then we can finish this today. 1005 01:05:40,330 --> 01:05:42,980 So this one here is the Young's modulus versus density. 1006 01:05:42,980 --> 01:05:45,380 And these are all sorts of different foams. 1007 01:05:45,380 --> 01:05:47,970 So the low modulus ones tend to be flexible. 1008 01:05:47,970 --> 01:05:50,950 The higher modulus ones tend to be more rigid. 1009 01:05:50,950 --> 01:05:55,420 And you could use this to select foams, if you wanted. 1010 01:05:55,420 --> 01:05:57,730 You can also see what the range of values is. 1011 01:05:57,730 --> 01:05:59,780 So the values of the modulus here 1012 01:05:59,780 --> 01:06:03,930 goes from a little less than a 100-- 1013 01:06:03,930 --> 01:06:06,030 because this is two orders of magnitude here, 1014 01:06:06,030 --> 01:06:09,266 I think, each one of these-- down to about 10 to the minus 4 1015 01:06:09,266 --> 01:06:10,580 or a little less than that. 1016 01:06:10,580 --> 01:06:11,580 So there's a huge range. 1017 01:06:11,580 --> 01:06:13,538 There's almost a range of a factor of a million 1018 01:06:13,538 --> 01:06:15,339 in those moduli. 1019 01:06:15,339 --> 01:06:16,880 And the same with the strengths here. 1020 01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:19,980 The strengths go from 10 to the minus 3 1021 01:06:19,980 --> 01:06:22,880 mega-pascals up to about maybe 30 mega-pascals, 1022 01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:24,570 something like that. 1023 01:06:24,570 --> 01:06:27,420 And you can see for the modulus and the strength, 1024 01:06:27,420 --> 01:06:29,050 things like the metal foams are good. 1025 01:06:29,050 --> 01:06:29,987 The balsa's good. 1026 01:06:29,987 --> 01:06:31,910 Here's the balsa up here. 1027 01:06:31,910 --> 01:06:33,370 Metal foam's up there. 1028 01:06:33,370 --> 01:06:38,940 So you can kind of see the range of properties 1029 01:06:38,940 --> 01:06:41,040 that you could get. 1030 01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:45,740 And then you could also-- need a drink, hang on. 1031 01:06:50,860 --> 01:06:53,840 You can also plot the specific property. 1032 01:06:53,840 --> 01:06:55,460 So here's the compressive strength 1033 01:06:55,460 --> 01:06:58,580 divided by the density plotted against the Young's modulus 1034 01:06:58,580 --> 01:07:00,006 divided by the density. 1035 01:07:00,006 --> 01:07:01,630 And here you want to be up at this end. 1036 01:07:01,630 --> 01:07:04,260 So you would have a high strength and a high stiffness. 1037 01:07:04,260 --> 01:07:07,790 So the balsa and the metal foams are good up here. 1038 01:07:07,790 --> 01:07:10,695 This next plot-- this is the compressive stress 1039 01:07:10,695 --> 01:07:13,100 at 25% strain. 1040 01:07:13,100 --> 01:07:15,530 And this is the densification strain. 1041 01:07:15,530 --> 01:07:21,020 And if you think of having your stress-strain curve 1042 01:07:21,020 --> 01:07:24,560 looks like this, something like that, 1043 01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:27,780 so you could say that's a strain of 0.25 1044 01:07:27,780 --> 01:07:30,920 and that's the stress that corresponds to that. 1045 01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:34,520 So that stress times the densification strain, 1046 01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:37,730 which is out here someplace, is an estimate 1047 01:07:37,730 --> 01:07:41,230 of the energy underneath the stress-strain curve. 1048 01:07:41,230 --> 01:07:45,240 So you can think of this right-hand plot here-- 1049 01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:48,920 those dashed lines-- these lines like this and this and this-- 1050 01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:51,630 each one of those corresponds to how much energy you 1051 01:07:51,630 --> 01:07:54,100 would absorb under the stress-strain curve. 1052 01:07:54,100 --> 01:07:57,840 So points that lie on here would have 1053 01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:01,500 an energy of 0.001 megajoules per cubic meter. 1054 01:08:01,500 --> 01:08:04,130 And over here, we're at 10 joules per cubic meter. 1055 01:08:04,130 --> 01:08:07,600 So again, the balsa and the metal foams are good over here. 1056 01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:10,660 So you can use these plots to try to identify foams 1057 01:08:10,660 --> 01:08:12,700 for particular applications. 1058 01:08:12,700 --> 01:08:14,890 And I think there's a couple more. 1059 01:08:14,890 --> 01:08:16,740 It doesn't have to be mechanical properties. 1060 01:08:16,740 --> 01:08:19,699 Here is thermal conductivity versus compressive strength. 1061 01:08:19,699 --> 01:08:21,740 So you can imagine if you wanted some insulation, 1062 01:08:21,740 --> 01:08:24,130 you wanted to have a certain thermal conductivity value, 1063 01:08:24,130 --> 01:08:26,550 you probably also need at least some minimal compressive 1064 01:08:26,550 --> 01:08:27,729 strength. 1065 01:08:27,729 --> 01:08:30,130 You could also have something like a maximum service 1066 01:08:30,130 --> 01:08:32,074 temperature, that maybe the foam is going 1067 01:08:32,074 --> 01:08:33,240 to melt at some temperature. 1068 01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:35,670 You can't go beyond that. 1069 01:08:35,670 --> 01:08:37,850 So there's some property there. 1070 01:08:37,850 --> 01:08:40,420 And I think there's one more here. 1071 01:08:40,420 --> 01:08:42,090 You can look at things like the density 1072 01:08:42,090 --> 01:08:43,729 in terms of the buoyancy of a foam, 1073 01:08:43,729 --> 01:08:45,840 if you have some buoyancy application. 1074 01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:48,560 And you can look at cell size on this one here. 1075 01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:50,510 And cell size can be important for things 1076 01:08:50,510 --> 01:08:52,250 like filtration and catalysis. 1077 01:08:52,250 --> 01:08:55,510 So the amount of surface area goes as 1 over the cell size-- 1078 01:08:55,510 --> 01:08:57,680 the surface area per unit volume. 1079 01:08:57,680 --> 01:09:00,010 And so the cell size can be important for those sorts 1080 01:09:00,010 --> 01:09:01,132 of applications. 1081 01:09:01,132 --> 01:09:03,340 So the idea is, you can make these material selection 1082 01:09:03,340 --> 01:09:04,130 charts for foam. 1083 01:09:04,130 --> 01:09:06,287 And you can put data on there. 1084 01:09:06,287 --> 01:09:07,370 And you can compare foams. 1085 01:09:07,370 --> 01:09:09,745 And you can use these performance indices. 1086 01:09:09,745 --> 01:09:11,120 So I'm going to leave it at that. 1087 01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:12,760 There is a little bit more notes. 1088 01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:14,460 But I'll just put them on the website, 1089 01:09:14,460 --> 01:09:17,050 and you can get them from there. 1090 01:09:17,050 --> 01:09:19,409 So I think we're good for today.