英文摘要 | Adhesive interfaces between polymers and substrates widely exist in aerospace structures, automotive industry, and electronic packages. The interface between polymers and substrates is the weakest point in the entire system, and the deformation and failure behavior of the interface under mechanical loadings directly affect the reliability during service. It is known that the macro-behaviors of adhesive interfaces are determined by the microstructures. Thus, understanding the microstructure and deformation mechanisms is important for enhancing the mechanical properties of adhesive interfaces. This dissertation focuses on the microstructural characteristics and mechanical properties of copper-epoxy-copper interfacial systems at the nanoscale. First, A nanoscale model of the interfacial system was established using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, which provides a basis for the simulation of deformation failure behavior at the atomic/molecular level. Then, the microstructures were visualized as topologies through graph theory methods to quantitatively
characterize the dominant topological features of the strength and toughness of the highly crosslinked polymer interfacial systems. Finally, based on the machine learning approach, the relationship between microstructure and mechanical properties of adhesive interfaces was established from the perspective of topological structures and topological descriptors, respectively, providing a basis for designing high-performance interface systems. The main research content is as follows:
(1) We used graph theory and molecular dynamic simulations to investigate the influence of topological characteristics on the strength and toughness of highly cross-linked polymer interface systems. Based on the microstructure of the adhesive system, we extracted the dominant topological characteristics, including the connectivity degree (D) that determines the yield strength, and the average node-path (P) and the simple cycles proportions (R) that determine the deformability and load-bearing capacity during the void propagation respectively, which co-determine the toughness. The influence of the wall-effect on the dominant topological characteristics was also analyzed. The results showed that the interfacial yield strength increases with the increase of D, while the toughness increases with the increase of P and R. The wall-effect has a significant influence on the dominant topological characteristics. The strong wall-effect causes the enrichment of amino groups near the wall and insufficient cross-linking away from the wall, leading to the lower D and R, i.e. the lower yield strength and load-bearing capacity during the void propagation. With the attenuation of the wall-effect, the D increases gradually, while the P and the R first increase and then decrease, showing an optimized wall-effect for the toughness of the adhesive interface. Quantitative characterization of the dominant topological characteristics of adhesive interfacial strength and toughness, providing a new way to modulate the mechanical properties of polymer adhesive interface systems.
(2) We employed a graph convolutional network (GCN) model to predict the mechanical properties of a specific cross-linked polymer interfacial system, including yield strength (σy), ultimate strength (σu), failure strain (εu), and toughness (Γ) utilizing molecular dynamics simulations. The graph model representing the topology was used as input to the GCN model, which achieves graph-level predictions by learning node features. The results showed that the adopted GCN model can predict the mechanical properties with over 88% accuracy. The prediction performances for εu
and σu are better than those for Γ and σy, with R2 ~ 0.73 for εu, R2 ~ 0.64 for σu, R2 ~ 0.51 for Γ, and R2 ~ 0.43 for σy. It is worth noting that the GCN model with the sum aggregator slightly outperforms that with the mean aggregator, and that models with linear regression and fully connected neural network regression provide similar predictions. Furthermore, the influence of input node features on prediction performance was also investigated. It was observed that the node closeness centrality is an important graph parameter in prediction. Specifically, node closeness centrality presents a more significant influence on the global mechanical properties of the adhesive interface, such as εu, σu, and Γ. Additionally, sensitivity analysis demonstrated that appropriate hyperparameters can improve computational efficiency without losing accuracy on a restricted set of data. Therefore, the GCN model can effectively predict the mechanical properties of the adhesive interface with complex topologies, which provides a new way for the design of polymer topologies and the
improvement of mechanical properties.
(3) We proposed some descriptors for measuring the topology of crosslinked polymer interfacial systems and used machine learning methods to investigate the correlation between the descriptors and the mechanical properties. These descriptors included pre-crosslinking parameters, graph theory parameters, typical topology parameters, and orientation order parameters. Highly correlated descriptors were
excluded through Pearson correlation coefficient screening to improve the
computational efficiency of the model. Four machine learning models, namely, random forest regression (RFR), gradient boosting regression (GBR), support vector regression (SVR), and artificial neural network (ANN), were trained. It was observed that the ANN model has the best performance with a prediction accuracy of more than 89% for all four mechanical properties. Specifically, the R2 values for εu, σu, Γ, and σy predicted by the ANN model were 0.78, 0.70, 0.55, and 0.53, respectively. Compared to the GCN that used graph models as inputs, the ANN model with topological descriptors as inputs had better performance in terms of both prediction efficiency and effectiveness. Specifically, the ANN model improved the R2 values for εu, σu, Γ, and σy by 6.8%, 9.4%, 7.8%, and 23.3%, respectively. Further studies showed that the ANN model performs better in predicting data with skewed distributions. In addition,Sobol analysis revealed the influence of different topological descriptors on each
mechanical property and identified the topological descriptors that contribute the most to different mechanical properties, which provides a clear design object for the optimization of the mechanical properties of the interface system in different application scenarios. |
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