纤维增强气凝胶复合材料等效热导率多尺度预报方法

Multiscale prediction method for effective thermal conductivity of fiber-reinforced aerogel composites

  • 摘要: 纤维增强气凝胶复合材料因其极低的热导率,在隔热材料领域展现出显著的应用潜力。本文提出了一种预报纤维增强气凝胶复合材料等效热导率的层级多尺度方法。首先,在微观尺度上,基于孔隙率和比表面积,构建了含气凝胶孔隙和骨架的立方空心球代表性体积单元(RVE)模型,采用有限元方法获得了气凝胶材料的等效热导率。然后,在细观尺度上,建立了考虑纤维面内方向随机分布特征的纤维增强气凝胶复合材料的RVE模型,将气凝胶等效热导率参数传入细观RVE模型中,模拟了纤维增强气凝胶复合材料的热流密度场分布,预报了复合材料的等效热导率,与实验结果的误差在10%以内,材料传热呈现出明显的各向异性。在此基础上,分析了不同纤维分布方式和纤维体积分数对纤维增强气凝胶复合材料等效热导率的影响。

     

    Abstract: Fiber-reinforced aerogel composites have exhibited significant potential for application in the field of thermal insulation materials due to their extremely low thermal conductivity. In this paper, a hierarchical multiscale method was proposed to predict the effective thermal conductivity of fiber-reinforced aerogel composites. First, at the microscale, a cubic hollow sphere representative volume element (RVE) model containing the aerogel pore and skeleton was constructed based on the porosity and specific surface area. The effective thermal conductivity of the aerogel material was obtained using the finite element method. Then, the mesoscale RVE model of fiber-reinforced aerogel composite was established by considering the random distribution characteristics of the fiber in-plane direction. The effective thermal conductivity parameter of aerogel was transferred into the mesoscopic RVE model to simulate the heat flux field distribution and to predict the effective thermal conductivity of fiber-reinforced aerogel composites. The deviation of the predicted effective thermal conductivity from the experimental results is less than 10%. The composite heat transfer shows obvious anisotropy. On this basis, the effects of different fiber distribution ways and fiber volume fractions on the effective thermal conductivity of fiber-reinforced aerogel composites are analyzed.

     

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