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Most commonly used experimental flaps used in rats, including dorsal skin, flank, epigastric, oblique groin, pectoral, latissimus dorsi, rectus abdominis and fibula flaps, will be described.",signatures:"Merdan Serin and Mehmet Bayramicli",downloadPdfUrl:"/chapter/pdf-download/56213",previewPdfUrl:"/chapter/pdf-preview/56213",authors:[{id:"199977",title:"Dr.",name:"Merdan",surname:"Serin",slug:"merdan-serin",fullName:"Merdan Serin"}],corrections:null},{id:"57249",title:"Perforator Flaps: Principles and Techniques",doi:"10.5772/intechopen.71270",slug:"perforator-flaps-principles-and-techniques",totalDownloads:1733,totalCrossrefCites:1,totalDimensionsCites:1,hasAltmetrics:0,abstract:"Evolution of flaps has continued after the introduction of fasciocutaneous and musculocutaneous flaps. Perforator flaps have evolved, and they have provided many new flaps with new pedicles all over the body presenting important advantages. Better understanding of vascular anatomy and pattern of skin circulation has become possible by numerous cadaveric studies. As a result, widespread use of perforator flaps, either pedicled or free, has become possible. Perforator flaps have provided freedom of flap design with over 350 perforators all over the body, reliability, and reduced donor site morbidity. However, success begins with planning and continues with operative procedure. Here, in this relatively new field of reconstructive surgery, the following are discussed: the correct planning of perforator flaps, microanatomy of perforators, and what to do during the operation based on previous reports. 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In conventional free flap transfer, the recipient vessel is sacrificed to facilitate pedicle anastomosis. On the other hand, a flow‐through flap can provide blood flow to distal tissues. In this chapter, we present cases of successful salvage and reconstruction of the extremities using free flow‐through flaps and highlight their advantages and applications. Free flow‐through flap use should be a good option in the following cases: (1) Gustilo‐Anderson IIIC type open fracture, (2) chronic ulcer resurfacing in the less vascularized extremities, and (3) additional blood supply for an ischemic flap. This flap facilitates not only the reconstruction of soft tissue defects, but also restores the functional vascular anatomy and maintains the original blood flow by interposing the T‐portion of the vessel. This technique enables both vascular and soft tissue reconstructions simultaneously with minimal donor site problems. The anterolateral thigh flap is recommended as a free flow‐through‐type flap due to its advantages, including the variety of flap sizes, adequate calibers of the vascular pedicle, and the lack of a need for position changing.",signatures:"Masaki Fujioka",downloadPdfUrl:"/chapter/pdf-download/55847",previewPdfUrl:"/chapter/pdf-preview/55847",authors:[{id:"53197",title:"Prof.",name:"Masaki",surname:"Fujioka",slug:"masaki-fujioka",fullName:"Masaki Fujioka"}],corrections:null},{id:"56466",title:"Emergent or Early Flap Resurfacing Is Required for Bone- Exposing Wounds of Gustilo-Anderson IIIB and IIIC Fractures",doi:"10.5772/intechopen.70147",slug:"emergent-or-early-flap-resurfacing-is-required-for-bone-exposing-wounds-of-gustilo-anderson-iiib-and",totalDownloads:1021,totalCrossrefCites:1,totalDimensionsCites:1,hasAltmetrics:0,abstract:"Background: The wound treatment has progressed owing to the development of new medicine, instruments. Following these trends, can the bone-exposing wounds of severe open fractures be resurfaced without using flaps but only skin grafting? We evaluated a new medicine and instrument, for the resurfacing of bone-exposing complex wounds of Gustilo-Anderson IIIB and C fractures. Patients and methods: Patients with Gustilo-Anderson IIIB (five cases) and C (two cases) open fractures who underwent open reduction and external fixation were evaluated. Bone-exposing wounds were resurfaced with artificial dermis, and basic fibroblast growth factor was sprayed. We investigated the course and outcome. Result: In all of seven cases, abundant granulation tissue did not develop on the bone-exposing wound surface during 2–5 weeks, and 4 patients developed osteomyelitis. Subsequently, all cases required flap surgery to resurface the wound. All patients could walk; however, required a longer period for the complete union of bones. 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Significant segmental mandibular loss or hemimandibular loss may sometimes be replaced with mandibular implants by ENT surgeons/oral surgeons/head and neck surgeons. However, this may bring about mandibular implant failure in long-term follow-up. Mandibular implant failures usually manifest as: soft tissue atrophy, mandibular implant extrusion, infection, facial nerve involvement, facial asymmetry, derangement of occlusion and mastication, orocutaneous fistula, etc. Over 30 years, the authors have treated 102 patients with mandibular implant failure. Reconstruction may involve removal of the mandibular implant and immediate replacement of the mandibular defect with a piece of vascularized bone flap, not only to compensate for bone loss but also to replace neighboring soft tissue and possible skin defects. Frequently used flaps have been vascularized iliac bone (89/102) or vascularized fibula grafts (13/102). 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Techniques may vary from just direct closure of the wound to free tissue transfer. Knowledge of the main locoregional hand flaps is paramount to solve most of the soft tissue defects at this level. Flaps vary depending on their blood supply and design. Their vascularity might be at random, they can be pedicled with anterograde or reversed flow or they can rely on simple or complex free tissue transfer whose blood flow depends on vascular anastomosis. This article reviews all the main soft tissue local or locoregional reconstructive techniques for hands and fingers.",signatures:"Francisco Martinez Martinez, M. 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Propagation of radio waves above earth is very challenging for uncountable communication tasks comprising the radar coverage and far-field antenna measurement ranges. Several methods have been described [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13] such as geometrical optics (GO) and various modifications of the geometrical theory of diffraction. Full wave methods are rather demanding, bearing in mind the memory and central processing unit (CPU).
We present a brief description of the physical optics (PO) method [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22] applied for irregular ground reflection considering both horizontal and vertical polarizations, electrical properties of earth (i.e., reflection coefficient), scattering of radio waves from random surfaces, and the shadow radiation. The improved computation of radio waves above uneven ground uses PO and line integrals, taking into consideration the vector problem and shadowing [18, 19]. This is a more consistent method for low-altitude fields and diffraction zones without any additional alternatives.
We perform new numerical simulations, which we compare with ample experimental results and other numerical simulations such as the parabolic equation method (PEM) for altered environment circumstances and modifications. The evolutionary processes are also discussed and are fully referenced below. We investigate radar coverage diagrams including monostatic and bistatic radars, far-field measuring range of antenna with separation roughly 1 km, and troposphere refraction effects for separation of 49.8 km. The longstanding testing demonstrates that the PO could present reliable computations for low heights and diffraction zones for numerous irregular grounds and real distribution of refraction.
Based on the PO method [3, 4], the computation of irregular ground reflection was derived [14]. However in the 1970s, it was necessary to diminish memory and CPU time. Therefore using a stationary phase method, the line integrals were computed instead of surface integrals, and scalar solutions were only employed. The earliest method has been progressively enlarged. Gradually, we have included various options considering both horizontal and vertical polarizations, electrical properties of earth (i.e., reflection coefficient), the scattering of radio waves from random surfaces, and the shadow radiation. Considering Ufimtsev’s results [23, 24, 25] a totally new approach to analyze propagation over irregular terrain could be used. The improved computation of radio waves above uneven ground uses PO and line integrals and takes into consideration the vector problem and shadowing [18, 19]. That is a more consistent method for low-altitude fields and diffraction zones without any additional alternatives.
The PO method analyzes an antenna
Propagation geometry.
The
Radio-wave scattering by certain impenetrable bodies with local reflection coefficients can be computed using PO [23, 24, 25]. According to Figure 1 the earth’s surface may be separated into illuminated,
According to [3] the GO is a limiting form of the PO. The spread border of the shadow in the diffraction phenomena becomes the sharp shadow of GO as the wavelength tends to zero. Therefore both GO and PO are very useful in the analyses of microwave propagation. Bearing in mind the PO, body surface fields are calculated using the GO. Therefore, the induced sources are only defined on the
The propagation above the earth (i.e., the PO calculation of the vector problem with 3-D surface) may be substantially reduced, both from memory and CPU time points of view. Using the principle of stationary phase [26]
where the horizontal polarization component
where
The reflection coefficient for a surface with random deviations could be approximated by
where
The improved computations [18, 19] of scattered fields consider the reflected radiation component,
Similar equations may be obtained for vertical polarization utilizing the
The reflected component depends on the local reflection coefficient,
The previous computations of low-altitude propagation (LAP) and transient zone (TZ) [16] use the knife-edge diffraction [1] and Fock’s spherical surface solution [5]. Both are scalar solutions, which neglect terrain imperfections. These methods are well known and have been extensively used. They have been proven as very efficient approximate methods for real terrain both analytically and experimentally. The transient zone would be considered, if the differences between the reflected and incident rays were less than a third of the wavelength. The low altitude would be considered, if the differences were less than λ/2π. Therefore the previous computations are relatively artificial as two quite different approximations are used for the computation, and the transient zone limits are only supported by an ad hoc assumption.
The comparison [18, 19] of the previous and new methods shows that the improved analysis of propagation over irregular terrain could be much more useful and accurate. Thus, Eqs. (5) and (6) may be employed for computation of both illuminated and shadow radiation. The calculation may be performed for greater heights (greater differentiations between incident and reflecting beams) together with lower heights (i.e., it is not required to compute the low heights and some transient regions). This offers much more consistent results, which consider the polarization even for the shadow zone.
A beam spreading via the lower troposphere refracts according to the refraction index gradient. As the refraction indexes change primarily with height, only the gradient of the vertical refraction index,
For calculation, the piecewise approximation of the surface is used in Figure 2a. The length of arc,
(a) Earth surface and (b) curvature correction.
Obviously, an effect of these equations is greater when
For a fast oscillating integrand, when the phase variation exceeds many times 2
However, for both analyses and syntheses, the simplified computation of the electrical field above an uneven earth [22], derived from above described method, could be used. This simplified method could compute Eqs. (5) and (6) using suitable simple approximations of Fresnel integrals. Clearly, the most important portions of piecewise approximations are in the vicinity of stationary phase points (i.e., points, where rays reflected from surfaces appear to come from mirror images). Therefore, the simplified method creates a more precise method than GO methods.
The difficulties of the described procedure are created by calculations used for the ground field. They may be reduced by using the physical theory of diffraction (PTD) [13, 24], which is a substantial expansion of PO. Furthermore, the novel variety of PTD [25] is acceptable for all scattering paths, particularly those that may contain forward scattering.
The normalized resulting field
where
A radar coverage diagram [3, 15, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30] comprises a volume inside in which the field is greater than the minimum useful value. The PEM models are very beautiful, but they ask for larger memories and CPU times, particularly for higher frequencies, elevation angles, and long ranges. Therefore diverse hybrid models have been produced by joining different models such as PEM and GO.
In the bistatic radar, unlike the monostatic radar, the transmitter and receiver are separated by a distance comparable to the target-to-receiver range [27]. The radar equation states
where
Usually vertical coverage diagrams are shown for free-space and plane ground effects, which consider a standard effective radius of
Vertical coverage diagrams of radar for free-space (solid line) and ground effects.
However, this approach is not quite satisfactory. Therefore, coverage diagrams of manufactured monostatic radars, which usually employ the same antenna for both transmitting and receiving antenna (i.e.,
Figure 4 shows the new numerical simulations of electric fields for elevation angles,
Numerical simulations for free-space and PO calculations of ground impacts for plane approximation of airport terrain profile and two effective radiuses.
These simulations are performed for the novel radar development at an airport with terrain profile of a specified azimuth, displayed in Figure 5. We considered the surface with relative permittivity of
Airport terrain profile with straight line fitting.
However, this selection is not very important according to the detailed analyses [14, 15]. Obviously, a reflection-interference lobe pattern can be clearly seen. We used a straight line fitting shown in Figure 5 for comparison. However, numerical simulations of plane approximation shown in Figure 4 demonstrate a mere quality agreement, i.e., the plane approximation could be only used for a very rough calculation. This is due to fact that least squares data fittings, which seem very reasonable from mathematical point of view, use artificial slopes of terrain, especially for particular parts of surfaces.
On the other hand, calculations using the partial wave method [15, 32, 33] and mentioned simplified computations [22] correspond to PO simulations, even if we use a fit by eye for the set of data, because slopes of terrain correspond to piecewise approximations.
Obviously, the change of effective radius,
Experimental validations of vertical coverage calculations of radars are rather difficult as the RCS of various targets is usually extremely variable (obviously except conducting sphere). Usually, customers ask for confirmations of the radar coverage diagrams by test flights such as shown in Figure 6. However, that depends on several items such as air refraction effects and the RCS of the operated airplane, which are extremely changeable [27, 28, 36]. The RCS varies as a function of aspect angle and frequency (the period of the variability changes from seconds to a few tenths of a second). However, thanks to plentiful test flights made at different airports for changeable azimuths (therefore completely dissimilar topography profiles) and thorough analyses, we could state that PO simulations correspond to test flights.
Test flight.
The effective elevation pattern clearly depends on superposition of the direct propagating signal with reflecting signals. However, according to skills with operations and testing of radars nearby to airports with grassy vegetation, the diminishing of the reflection coefficient for angles up to 2° is not important [32]. We can conclude that the radar coverage diagram of certain specific monostatic radar could be very useful as neighboring terrains of radar sites are usually very similar, and therefore it could be considered as a typical case.
There are several competitive signals reducing the maximum range and complicating the signal processing. They are the direct signal, correlated reflections of terrain objects (clutter), non-correlated signals transmitted by other sources at the same frequency (electromagnetic noise), and the thermal noise. Clearly, the investigation of bistatic radars and especially passive coherent locator (PCL), which uses transmitters of opportunity such as FM radio broadcasting, is very complicated [27, 37, 38].
As the transmitter and receiver are separated, the ground effects should be analyzed independently. That means, the propagation above the terrain between transmitter(s) and target and receiver(s) and target must be examined. This case is much more complicated than monostatic radar. However, Figure 3 could be very useful for investigation of bistatic radars for various different situations. Moreover, PO modeling very easily permits the typical configuration calculations for transmitters of opportunity.
Obviously, the bistatic RCS should be also investigated. Usually, a bistatic RCS is lower than the monostatic RCS measured on the bisector of complicated targets. However, some target aspect angles can generate a low monostatic RCS and high bistatic specular RCS. A limiting case of the bistatic geometry occurs when the target is on the transmitter-receiver baseline. A considerable improvement of scattering can be generated, as the forward scatter RCS,
where
We measure an antenna under test (AUT) on an antenna range [39, 40, 41]. The plane wave of uniform amplitude and phase is an ideal situation for measuring of far-field electromagnetic wave features of the AUT. This wonderful situation is not realizable. However, it can be roughly made, if we use a large separation between the AUT and the transmitting (or receiving) antenna at an outdoor range. When we enlarge the separation, the spherical phase-front becomes more planar over the AUT aperture. When the separation equals 2
Furthermore, reflections from the ground and adjacent objects could erroneously affect the AUT illuminations. Apparently, the electromagnetic field quality of the quiet zone depends on AUT features. Thus, numerical simulation analyses are very motivating. Applicable suppression of reflected signals should be done by a combination of line-of-sight clearance, transmitter and/or receiver antenna directivities, and sidelobe suppression. Perhaps, range ground screening could also be considered.
The proposed PO method [18] analyzes the illuminated part of terrain and abrupt change of height, which create the shadowed part. Naturally, the utilization of knife-edge diffraction and Fock’s spherical surface solutions, which neglect terrain imperfections, creates only approximate solutions. However, the comparison shows that the PO method produces acceptable results, as this method actually replaces a real scattering object by the equivalent currents. Moreover, problems may be reduced by using the physical theory of diffraction [24, 25].
Obviously, a smaller AUT asks for a smaller quiet zone, but spurious signal suppressions by the AUT could be very poor. On the contrary, a larger AUT requires a larger quiet zone, but spurious signal suppressions by the AUT could be much improved.
We could test the function of any antenna through concrete solid angles and frequency bands. The antenna features are typically quantified by the requests of operating systems and describe areas where they are significant. Plentiful measurements have been obtained thanks to thorough tests of the far-field ranges for different situations since the early 1970s (as for any original antenna type, the vertical range illumination was tested). Obviously, any discrepancies and changes have been comprehensively analyzed to discover the possible reasons of those effects.
Of course, the effect of terrain on scattering field is very important. But, the numerous technical and economic issues such as possibilities of electrical power supply, roads suitable for tested antenna transport, effect of nearby objects (buildings, woods), electromagnetic interference sources, expenses, and total budget should be considered. Therefore, various sites have been thoroughly analyzed. In fact, the program [14] was proposed for different studies of projected and/or built far-field ranges.
Therefore, we present the novel comparison with different relative permittivity values
Measurement, numerical simulations for εr = 30–2.5j and εr = 3.2–0.015j, ground standard deviations of σ = 0.2 m and σ = 0 m, and calculations with reflector diameter of D = 0.6 m for εr = 3.2–0.015j, and ground standard deviations of σ = 0.2 m and σ = 0 m.
Profile of far-field range and the length of reflected rays.
The simulations of dry ground of εr = 3.2–0.015j and wet ground of εr = 30–2.5j are shown. It can be seen that the results are nearly the same. Experimental values and numerical simulations were performed with a transmitting reflector diameter of
The problems of ground scattering could be diminished by using fences, which could be very demanding [40]. The diffraction fences on the range can reduce the level of reflections. However, the fences inevitably introduce disturbances in the incident field due to diffraction effects along their wedges. Therefore, a practical fence proposal is a compromise between reflection reductions and residual diffraction. Of course, it has been shown [18] that Eqs. (5) and (6) may be utilized for computation of both illuminated and shadow radiation considering the polarizations even for the shadow zone. That is numerical simulations may be performed for greater as well as lower heights without any artificial combinations of different methods. Considering the complex Fresnel integral [1] and Eq. (2), the Cornu spiral derived from straight-edge diffraction can be applied. Therefore, the length of reflected rays shown in Figure 8 could be very useful for fence design.
Wedge diffractions of fences could be diminished using tuned slots (which are effective at a single frequency but are frequency sensitive) or serrations along the edge. Both approaches ask for structures which expand several wavelengths above the edge. The most understandable design is to maintain low-level illumination of the fence edge, if possible. That sometimes leads to the low multiple-fence design with proper tilting. However, usually one to three fences are used.
Generally, the differences between measuring, when the probe (small horn antenna) is moved between
The reflective coefficients fluctuate due to seasonal ground circumstances as the ground may be overgrown by plants, coated by snow or farmed. They influence both scattered and resulting fields. They are not frequently significant for low random deviations, as the local reflections are nearly equal to −1 for low grazing angles irrespective of polarization. However, Figure 7 shows that larger ground deviations may influence the measured values more significantly. Site tests and numerous computations since the 1970s validate these data. Moreover, the experiments and computations have been done with various ranges with quite different terrain profiles. Various initial and reconstructed towers, different transmitter antennas (such as prime focus and dual-reflector Cassegrain antennas with smooth-wall or conical corrugated horns), and several types of probes are used for both linear and elliptical polarizations and frequency bands.
Actually, the results fluctuate during seasons and due to location of auxiliary equipment (including occasionally crane). The experiments show that reflection coefficients of antenna ranges are diminished in summer, when a terrain is covered by wheat or other vegetations for frequency bands of 1 up to 10 GHz.
Numerical simulations have been used both for design and optimizing of the rebuilt antenna range [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 36, 39, 42]. Figure 9 shows the comparison of measurements with antenna tilt 1.4° (horizontal polarization HP 2.8 GHz) and calculations of normalized resulting field A (dB), using the horizontal polarization and frequency of 2.8 GHz. Various antenna tilts of 1° (AT 1), 1.2° (AT 1.2), 1.4° (AT 1.4), and 1.6° (AT 1.6) are analyzed. It is quite clear that experimental optimizing, when we consider the antenna tilt as well as frequencies, polarizations, and random deviations, is very time-consuming. Therefore, numerical simulations are extremely useful. They could discover quite new phenomena and create new concepts.
The comparison of measurements with antenna tilt 1.4° (HP 2.8 GHz) and calculations of normalized resulting field for frequency of 2.8 GHz and the antenna tilt of 1° (AT 1), 1.2° (AT 1.2), 1.4° (AT 1.4), and 1.6° (AT 1.6).
Obviously, numerical simulations have been analyzed considering disturbing effects of various obstacles such as nearby constructions, trees, and changeable surface. This is important especially for bigger random deviations, i.e., the surface standard deviation,
Electromagnetic wave propagation in the troposphere varies according to the air refractive index [3, 5, 34, 35]. The various experimental analyses of radio-wave characteristics and atmospheric refracting “
Comparison of measurements, where MEAS.MAX and MEAS.MIN are maxima and minima during a day, with the 0.65 m diameter and standard Re = 8.5 × 106 m (with σ equals to 0 or 0.2 m) and Re = 6.9 × 106 m for PO numerical simulations.
Comparison of measurements with 0.65 m diameter for PO numerical simulations for heights of 51, 61, 90, 120, and 145 m.
Figure 10 shows the spreading of measured values during the same day denoted by MEAS.MAX and MEAS.MIN, which show measured maxima and minima. Comparisons of maxima and minima of measurements during a day with PO numerical simulations of 0.65 m diameter antenna, surface with
The observation of refractive index distributions, for various heights during the same day, reveals that distributions are very changeable. Therefore, we cannot speak correctly about stratum formulation. Nevertheless, we select the same
Considering the 1-day measuring of refracting N units, Figure 12 shows the comparison of computations using PO and PEM for 11 AM (i.e., the same time as in Figure 11). It can be seen that PO and PEM provide similar results, if we select the same
Comparison of the standard Re (without ground reflections), PEM, and PO numerical simulations for heights of 51, 61, 90, 120, and 145 m.
The PEM has been expansively examined. Evaluation of experiments and numerical simulations using the PEM revealed that PEM simulations correspond mostly to measurements when a particular vertical gradient may be used. However, a simulation of multipath spreading for extremely confused circumstances was unacceptable. Unfortunately, the requirement that not less than three frequencies should be used at the same time to offer an obvious correspondence with theory [3] has not been accomplished as frequency of 10.671 GHz was only used. Using the PO method, the influence of refracting indexes was examined infrequently, and initial situations have been only announced [4, 6]. Therefore, new comparisons are performed.
However, the employed code for PO approximations allows only the utilization of one constant effective earth radius,
Using the code [18, 19] we could use different electrical parameters for any ground fragment. In spite of this, the detailed characteristics of the ground are not identified. In fact, they are not stationary and may change very rapidly. Thus,
This chapter briefly describes the PO approximation, which is frequently utilized. The novel comparisons using recent PO method are presented for measurements and numerical simulations. We have investigated experimentally different ground situations and variations of plants, snow, winter, or summer through plentiful years for different frequency bands and polarizations.
We analyze radar coverage diagrams considering the usual monostatic radars as well as bistatic radars. We can conclude that the radar coverage diagram of certain specific monostatic radar could be very useful as neighboring terrains of radar sites are usually very similar. Therefore, it could be considered as a typical case. Analyses of bistatic radars are difficult as the propagation above the terrain between transmitter(s) and target and receiver and target must be analyzed. This case is much more complicated comparing with monostatic radar. However, Figure 3 could be very useful for investigation of bistatic radars for various different situations. Moreover, considering passive coherent locators, the PO modeling permits typical configuration calculations for various transmitters of opportunity.
The measuring antenna far-field range (relatively short distance about 1 km) shows generally that the differences between measuring, when the probe (small horn antenna) is moved between
The observation of refractive index distributions for distance of 49.8 km, for various heights during the same day, reveals that distributions are very changeable. Therefore, we cannot speak correctly about stratum formulation. Nevertheless, we select for individual “layers” of PO simulations the same
It has been validated that the upgraded PO method offers more trustworthy calculations for low elevation propagations and diffraction zones. In this method, there is no supporting technique for special tropospheric situations for data transmission and communications together with electromagnetic compatibility. The small discrepancies could be incompletely clarified since permittivity, conductivity, and standard deviation change. Obviously, the selection of suitable effective radiuses,
The described PO method provides reliable computations for low-height fields and diffraction zones for numerous uneven terrains and realistic refractive index spreading. The used code for PO approximations allows only the utilization of one constant effective earth radius,
Frequently, refractive propagation effects on electromagnetic wave propagation could be neglected especially for lower elevations. It is clearly demonstrated that we should consider ground scattering and we cannot only analyze the radiation pattern, refraction, and tropospheric losses.
The authors thank deceased Dr. D. Kupcak for very beneficial ideas during longtime collaboration both from theoretical and practical viewpoints.
The work was supported from ERDF/ESF “Cooperation in Applied Research between the University of Pardubice and companies, in the Field of Positioning, Detection and Simulation Technology for Transport Systems (PosiTrans)” (No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008394).
Residual stresses have a significant effect on the fatigue life of structures. Surface tensile residual stresses (TRS) can cause harm to structures, components or specimens. However, surface compressive residual stresses (CRS) can improve the fatigue life of the structures, components or specimens. In most cases, welding introduces TRS at the surface. Few cases reported that CRS can be found at the surface of welded structures, components or specimens.
Rossini et
Schematic presentation of residual stresses distribution.
Where,
An external load applied to a structure, component or specimen will lead to a stress distribution. If the structure (component or specimen) has residual stresses and its behavior is still elastic, the material will respond to the sum of the stress distribution of the external load and the residual stresses. Eq.(2) expresses the relation between stress distribution in the material (
In case where the structure, component or specimen is submitted to external cyclic loading (
There are several sources that introduce residual stresses, such as production process, heat treatment, welding process, post-weld treatments, etc.
Residual stresses can be classified into two scales namely macro and micro residual stress. RS that occur over long distances within the material are characterized as macro RS. In Withers et
The scale of the residual stress, whether it is micro (intergranular) or macro scale, determines the measurement technique. There is no unique technique that is qualified for measuring all the stress types (micro and macro). Within one specimen or component, measurement of residual stresses using two different techniques, give completely different results. Therefore, for reliable results, it is recommended to select a suitable method for each case. Nasri et
There are many techniques for residual stresses measurements. These techniques can be grouped into three types namely, nondestructive, semi destructive, and destructive. The following bullets enumerate examples of these techniques:
Nondestructive: X-ray, neutron and synchrotron diffraction, ultrasonic method, and Barkhausen noise method.
Semi destructive: Hole-drilling, ring-core, and deep-hole methods.
Destructive: Sectioning compliance techniques, and contour method.
Table 1 lists the measurements techniques with their corresponding type and residual stress scale that is aimed to measured.
Technique | Type | Residual stress type |
---|---|---|
Mechanical | Destructive | Macro-residual stress |
X-ray diffraction | Non-destructive (surface method) | Macro and micro residual stress |
Neutron diffraction | Non-destructive | Macro and micro residual stress |
Ultrasonic | Non-destructive | Macro and micro residual stress |
Magnetic | Non-destructive | Macro and micro residual stress |
Techniques of measuring residual stresses.
For welding residual stresses, the most used techniques are x-ray diffraction (Monin et
In this chapter, Section 2 is meant to determine the mean factors that determine the type of welding residual stresses at the surface and to provide a probabilistic analysis of the shape and type of welding residual stress at the surface. Section 3 gives an overview of the effect of residual stresses on fatigue life and lists the different causes, and reasons for residual stresses relaxation. A re-distribution of welding residual stresses after the cutting process was studied in section 4.
The welding process is associated with intensive heating and cooling. This process leads to weld effects at the weld toe and root. Some of these effects are residual stresses, micro-cracks, high-stress concentration, and local change in the material properties. These effects have a significant influence on the fatigue life of the welded structure, component, or speciemen. Radaj [7] found that the residual stresses and the geometrical change at the weld toe are the most critical parameters that are determinantal for fatigue. In Manai et
There are many factors that affect the residual stresses distribution in welded structure, component, or specimen. The main factors that determine what residual stresses are present in a welded structure (tensile or compressive at the surface) are listed in the following points:
The existance of residual stresses in the plates that is resulting from the manufacturing process prior to welding, (before welding takes place).
The material properties (micro-structures, thermal and mechanical properties) of the weld and base materials.
The geometry and the shape of the plates being welded.
The welding procedure (the welding conditions, and the pass sequence in multipass welds).
Several factors might modify the residual stresses after welding. These factors can be either during manufacturing process or during the service life of the as-welded structure. Some - but not limited to - of these factors are:
Surface treatments (peening, TIG dressing, Grinding, etc.), which might cause redistribution of residual stresses due to material removal.
Cutting process.
Mechanical loading, such as proof testing or vibration during transportation.
Thermal treatments.
Mechanical treatments such as vibrational stress relief.
In-service repair.
Crack initiation or loss of the material due to corrosion.
It is highly recommended to consider these factors while assessing the as-welded structure, component, or specimen.
A literature study and a probabilistic analysis of welding residual stresses distribution were performed by Manai et
Schematic presentation of residual shape of RS through the thickness direction.
As welding residual stresses distribution depend on the material properties and the geometry of the plates (thickness of the welded plate), a normalization of the abovementioned parameters that define residual stresses shape is introduced. The magnitude of the residual stresses (
Based on the probabilistic analysis in Manai et
A linear regression line connecting the magnitude of the surface RS (
The mean of the depth of the maximum sub-surface residual stresses (see Figure 2),
The surface magnitude residual stresses (
the maximum sub-surface residual stresses (
In case where welding inroduces CRS at the surface and independent of the material and the thickness of the welded plate, the following points were concluded in Manai et
The residual stresses at the surface (
The sub-surface residual stresses (
The normalized depth of the maximum sub-surface residual stresses (
Welding residual stresses modify the mean stress experienced by a welded joint under the fatigue loading. In case where high TRS is presented at the welded area, it is assumed that cyclic stresses are fully damaging. Therefore, the effect of welding residual stresses must be taken into account when dealing with welded joints. This effect appears in the calculation of crack growth. As
In the case where TRS is introdcued at the welded area, crack propagation occurs even when the structure, component, or specimen is subjected to external compressive stress cycles.
In Manai [9], simulations of the fatigue life of as-welded structures in the case of the presence of TRS at the surface and in the case of the presence of CRS at the surface were carried out. It was stated that the fatigue life increases with a factor of 4.5 times in the case of CRS occurred at the surface after the welding process in comparison to the case where TRS occurred at the surface (after welding).
In order to install mega-welded strucutres such as bridges, off-shores and so on, welding is carried out in the workshop and cutting processes are usually applied. This cutting process is determined depending on the exigences for edge detail and the application Barzoum et
In order to measure the RS in different weld seam lengths, step-by-step sectioning with measurement of the relaxation stress was performed. Residual stresses in specimens with widths vary between 30 mm and 160 mm were measured. In order to better analyze the data, the magnitude of the residual stresses is normalized with the yield strength of the material (
For longitudinal residual stresses:
Regardless of the weld seam length, typical distributions of longitudinal welding residual stresses were found after cutting, (See Figure 3).
After cutting, high tensile residual stresses were measured at the middle of the plate width and low tensile at both edges of the specimen.
The maximal tensile residual stresses (measured at the middle of the welded plated), gradually decrease with the decrease of the width of the cutted specimen.
Plate width as a function of the normalized measured length of CRS after cutting.
For transversal residual stresses:
Regardless of the weld seam length, typical distributions of transversal welding residual stresses were found after cutting.
After cutting process, low tensile residual stresses were measured at the middle of the weld seam length and a high compressive residual stresses were measured at both specimen edges.
After the cutting process, 30% of the width of the welded plate contains tensile residual stresses and 60% contains compressive residual stresses (See Figure 4).
Similar to the longitudinal RS, the magnitude of transversal RS decreases gradually with the decrease of the weld seam length (after cutting took place), (See Figure 3). In Figure 3,
Measured RS along the weld seam length after cutting, Liang et al. [
a | crack depth |
DB | depth of the maximum sub-surface residual stresses |
h | plate thickness |
l | the length where CRS was measured |
N | number of cycles |
R | stress ratio |
σRSA | surface residual stresses |
σRSB | maximum sub-surface residual stresses |
T | plate thickness |
w | plate width |
σa | stress amplitude |
σa,Ex | amplitude of the external load |
σEx | external stress |
σfy | yield strength of the material |
σm | mean stress |
σm,Ex | mean of the external load |
σmax | maximum stress |
σmin | minimum stress |
σRS | residual stresses |
σRS,x | residual stresses in the x-direction |
ΔKth | stress intensity factors range threshold |
RS | residual stresses |
TIG dressing | Tungsten Inert Gas dressing |
TRS | tensile residual stresses |
CRS | compressive residual stresses |
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