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Water-Jet Cavitation Shock Bulging as Novel Microforming Technique

Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering volume 34, Article number: 4 (2021) Cite this article

Abstract

With the continuous expansion of the application range of microelectromechanical systems, microdevice forming technology has achieved remarkable results. However, it is challenging to develop new microforming processes that are low cost, environmentally friendly, and highly flexible; the high-energy shock wave in a cavitation bubble’s collapse process is used as the loading force. Herein, a new process for the microbulging of the water-jet cavitation is proposed. A series of experiments involving the water-jet cavitation shock microbulging process for TA2 titanium foil is performed on an experimental system. The microforming feasibility of the water-jet cavitation is investigated by characterizing the shape of the formed part. Subsequently, the effects of the main parameters of the water-jet cavitation on the bulging profile, forming depth, surface roughness, and bulging thickness distribution of TA2 titanium foil are revealed. The results show that the plastic deformation increases nonlinearly with the incident pressure. When the incident pressure is 20 MPa, the maximum deformation exceeds 240 μm, and the thickness thinning ratio changes within 10%. The microbulging feasibility of water-jet cavitation is verified by this phenomenon.

1 Introduction

The science and technology of microdevice forming has received significant attention and hence in-depth research has been performed by scholars. However, the traditional microforming process is accompanied by a series of insurmountable problems owing to microscale effects [1,2,3]. Additionally, the existing deep reactive ion etching, photolithography, lithography, electrochemistry, micro electric discharge machining (micro-EDM), laser shock, and other microprocessing technologies exhibit problems such as low efficiency, easy pollution, complex process flow, large investment, and difficult operation [4, 5]. Therefore, new microforming processes are necessitated for solving the current problems in microforming.

A water-jet cavitation carrying numerous cavitation bubbles is formed after a high-pressure water jet passes through the nozzle. The cavitation bubbles collapse near the solid wall, and high energy is produced under complex conditions such as confining pressure and strong shear [6, 7]. Water-jet cavitation has been widely used in cleaning, sewage treatment, and rock mining [8,9,10]. The application of water-jet cavitation to the surface modification of materials has become a popular topic in recent years. Soyama et al. [11] conducted cavitation shot peening research on copper, aluminum, stainless steel, and other materials. The effects of the nozzle structure, spray pressure, target distance, and other process parameters on the microstructure changes of the materials were revealed. Marcon et al. [12] used the high-energy shock wave of water-jet cavitation to bend the duralumin alloy sheet of an aircraft wing and discovered that the cavitation nozzle exhibited a large deformation curvature. Tsuda et al. [13] combined quenching with cavitation shot peening to strengthen a carbon-steel spiral gear. A 100-μm-deep strengthening layer and a residual compressive stress of 600 MPa was formed. Soyama et al. [14, 15] were pioneers in determining the feasibility of sheet metal forming through water-jet cavitation. Their results showed that the sheet metal underwent high-speed plastic deformation and satisfactory plastic deformation as the cavitation bubbles collapsed. However, reports regarding the application of water-jet cavitation to foil microforming are scarce.

High-energy shock waves produced by the bubble collapse of a cavitation water jet were used as the loading force based on previous microplastic forming theory in this study. An experiment was performed on a TA2 titanium foil with a thickness of 100 μm to analyze the effects of cavitation water jet process parameters on the microplastic forming of TA2 titanium foil. First, the new technology of cavitation water jet micro-forming was investigated herein, where the results provide new insights for microdevice formation.

2 Methodology

2.1 Experimental Setup

Figure 1 shows the experimental setup of the water-jet cavitation shock microbulging process. The experiments were performed in a transparent water tank filled with tap water at 25±2 °C. According to Refs. [16,17,18], the cavitation nozzle with a d/L ratio of 1:8, as shown in Figure 2, was designed to generate a periodic cavitating jet. Hence, when the throat diameter of the nozzle d was 1.5 mm, its throat length L was 12 mm, and the expansion angle θ was set as 30°. Subsequently, the cavitation nozzle was mounted on a supporting device and adjusted by a standoff distance S, i.e., the distance between the nozzle outlet and workpiece surface. In this experimental setup, the water flow through the cavitation nozzle was driven by a plunger pump to generate a submerged cavitating jet in the test cell.

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Experimental setup of water-jet cavitation shock microbulging process

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Geometry and structure of cavitation nozzle

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It is noteworthy that the entire forming device was fixed on a platform located in a water-filled transparent water tank. The standoff distance was set as 120 mm through trial and error based on a previous study [18]. It is important to achieve a sufficient cavitating jet intensity that can induce a concentrated collapse in cavitation bubbles without any pitting or damages due to overformation.

Inside the test cell, the forming device should be perpendicular to the cavitating nozzle, and the incident pressure applied on the surface of the foil is indicated by a pressure gauge installed on the plunger pump. According to the preliminary experiment results, as shown in Figure 3, an impact zone with good forming effects under different incident pressures appeared between two concentric circles whose radii were R1 and R2, and whose center was aligned with the jet axis. Considering the region between the two concentric circles with radii R1 = 12.3 mm (i.e., the maximum value of R1) and R2 = 19.3 mm (i.e., the minimum value of R2) was always a stable impact zone in the range of incident pressure investigated (i.e., 8, 12, 16, and 20 MPa), a compromise value of 14 mm was set for the axial spacing SL (i.e., the distance between the centerline of the micromold cavity and the jet axis) to ensure that the cavitation impact forming zone was located stably in the central region of the micromold.

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Impact zone of cavitation water jet under different incident pressures

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According to Ref. [19], as a measure of the resistance of the flow to cavitation, the cavitation number σ is defined as the ratio of the incident (upstream) pressure P1 to the downstream pressure P2, as shown in Eq. (1):

$$\sigma { = }\frac{{P_{ 2} }}{{P_{ 1} }} ,$$
(1)

where the incident pressure P1 is one of the key parameters in the water-jet cavitation shock microbulging process and was set as 8, 12, 16, and 20 MPa. The downstream pressure P2 was maintained at 0.1 MPa [20]. For testing samples under different incident pressures, the test duration t was set to 1 min.

2.2 Forming Device

The forming device shown in Figure 4 comprised a locking block, mask, seal ring, workpiece, and micromold. First, the TA2 titanium foil was placed on the top surface of the mold to cover the mold openings completely. Next, the mask was placed on the TA2 titanium foil, and the mask and micromold were aligned. Subsequently, a locking block was utilized to prevent the foil material from flowing into the micromold cavity and wrinkling in the blank holding area by exerting a blank holding force of 36 N on the blank holding area. Hence, the foil material in the blank holding area was undeformed, and the 2A12 aluminum foil underwent bulging. Finally, a seal ring was placed between the mask and foil to provide an effective sealing.

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Schematic illustration of forming device

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The designed micromold is shown in Figure 5. It was fabricated via micro-EDM using a 304 stainless steel cylinder and had a diameter of Φ40 mm and a height of 5 mm. In this micromold, the diameter and depth of the cavity were Φ1.2 mm and 3 mm, respectively. After the micromold was processed, it was immersed in an anhydrous alcohol solution, followed by ultrasonic vibration cleaning; subsequently, it was measured using a digital microscope (KEYENCE VHX-1000C). In addition, 304 stainless steel foil was selected as the mask material; the contour of the mask measured Φ40 mm×2 mm, and the diameter of the mask hole was Φ1.2 mm.

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Structure and size diagram of micromold

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Titanium foils (TA2, purity>99.6%) provided by Shenzhen Hongwang Molding Co., Ltd. were selected as the testing foil material. Its compositions and mechanical properties are listed in Tables 1 and 2, respectively. After the titanium foils were cut into square specimens measuring 35 mm×35 mm, cleaning and drying were conducted to prepare the testing samples.

Table 1 Compositions of TA2 titanium foils
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Table 2 Mechanical properties of TA2 titanium foils
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2.3 Surface Observation and Quality Characterization

2.3.1 Surface Topography Measurement

After water-jet cavitation shock microbulging was performed, the bulging profile and forming depth of the bulging parts were characterized using a digital microscope (KEYENCE VHX-1000C) to analyze their forming quality. The surface topography and roughness value of the micromold and TA2 titanium foils were measured using a shape measurement laser microscopy system (VK-X250K) [21].

2.3.2 Measurement of Thickness Thinning Ratio

Considering that localized necking is a sign of fracture failure, the thickness distribution of the bulging parts obtained via water-jet cavitation shock microbulging must be analyzed. The specimens that were cut along the middle line of the bulging parts should be mounted in a plastic mold filled with a low-viscosity epoxy resin such that its cross-sectional thickness can be measured conveniently using a digital microscope and its thickness distribution can be characterized precisely. After the cross section of the mounted specimens was polished well, their thickness was measured using a digital microscope (KEYENCE VHX-1000C). According to the measured thickness of the forming region at measuring points ti (i = 1, 2,…,13) as well as the initial thickness of the TA2 titanium foils t0, the thickness thinning ratio r can be calculated using Eq. (2) [22]. The 13 measuring points were arranged as shown in Figure 6, where the space between two adjacent measurement points was 100(±0.5) µm.

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Arrangement of measuring points for measuring thickness distribution of bulging parts

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$$r = \frac{{t_{0} - t_{i} }}{{t_{0} }} \times 100\% .$$
(2)

3 Results and Discussion

3.1 Surface Topography of Bulging Parts

Figure 7a shows the surface topography of the bulging part under an incident pressure of 20 MPa. A relatively good surface quality without evident defects such as mold scratches and cracks was observed. Moreover, wrinkling was not observed in the blank holding area of the bulging part. In addition, the bulging part shown in Figure 7b is a spherical cap-shaped sample, indicating that strong plastic deformation occurred and gradually decreased from the center to the periphery. Figure 7c shows the surface profile of the bulging part. The smooth profile without abrupt change indicates that the foil material flowed into the mold homogeneously during the water-jet cavitation shock microbulging. The maximum forming depth can reach 248.9 µm at the center of the bulging part.

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Surface topography of bulging part

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The mechanism of microbulging based on water-jet cavitation shock is shown in Figure 8. Cavitation bubbles were generated by injecting a high-speed water jet into a water-filled chamber through a nozzle. When the cavitation bubbles approached the surface of the workpiece, a sudden increase in local pressure induced by the significant turbulent pressure pulsation resulted in a concentrated collapse of the cavitation bubbles and hence shock waves [23]. These shock waves formed on the workpiece surface and propagated into the interior of the workpiece owing to the high concentration of energy; consequently, the peak pressure value was in the gigapascal range [24, 25]. Once the peak value of the collapse pressure exceeded the Hugoniot elastic limit of the foil material, yielding and plastic deformation occurred. The plastic deformation of the workpiece increased until the peak stress was less than the dynamic yield strength of the foil material. Because the loading direction was downward and the workpiece was unconstrained on the bottom side, the foil material flowed downward to fill the mold. The forming mechanism was similar to that of laser-induced cavitation forming, but the forming force was derived from the laser-induced single cavitation bubble instead of the water-jet-induced cluster of cavitation bubbles [26].

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Schematic of water-jet cavitation shock microbulging

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3.2 Forming Depth of Bulging Parts under Different Incident Pressures and Their Profiles

Table 3 lists the forming depths of the bulging parts under different incident pressures (i.e., 8, 12, 16, and 20 MPa). For each incident pressure, microbulging tests were performed for eight times, and their average forming depths are listed in Table 3. Figure 9a presents the average surface profile of the bulging parts with different incident pressures. As shown, the forming depth increased with the incident pressure, and its peak value was always located at the center of the bulging part because the cavitation nozzle generated more cavitation bubbles and provided a higher impact load as the incident pressure increased [27]. When the cavitation bubbles approached the surface of the workpiece, their sudden collapse induced a higher shock wave pressure, and they propagated into the workpiece such that the strain energy in the workpiece as well as the forming depth increased. Figure 9b shows the change curve of the average forming depth with incident pressure, from which it can be observed that the plastic deformation of the TA2 titanium foil increased nonlinearly with the incident pressure. More specifically, as the incident pressure increased from 8 to 16 MPa, the forming depth improved at a decreasing rate. As the incident pressure increased from 16 to 20 MPa, the forming depth increased significantly. This can be attributed to the following reasons: (1) The air enclosed in the micromold cavity during water-jet cavitation shock microbulging was compressed gradually because it could not be expelled successfully, as the flow resistance of the foil material increased significantly; (2) The dynamic yield limit of the foil material during water-jet cavitation shock microbulging increased continually owing to the hardened effect and hence a larger force was required for a further deformation; (3) As the water-jet cavitation shock microbulging was conducted under a standoff distance S = 120 mm and an incident pressure less than 16 MPa, most of the cavitation bubbles collapsed before reaching the workpiece surface; therefore, the shock energy was relatively low and the improvement in forming depth was insignificant [18]. However, as the incident pressure increased to 20 MPa, the cavitation bubbles enlarged. They collapsed on the workpiece surface; hence, a greater shock energy was generated and the forming depth increased significantly. Furthermore, as shown in Figure 9a, the peak of most curves for different incident pressures was located near the central axis of the forming parts, as indicated by the dashed blue line, except for the curve under an incident pressure of 20 MPa. The peak of the curve under the incident pressure of 20 MPa shifted slightly toward the right. This phenomenon was likely induced by some uncertain experimental factors or measurement errors, which will be investigated in detail in future studies.

Table 3 Forming depth of bulging parts under different incident pressures
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Average profile and forming depth of bulging parts under different incident pressures

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3.3 Surface Morphology of Bulging Parts

For the bulging parts formed by the water-jet cavitation shock microbulging process, their surface roughness on the center area was between 1.579 and 1.922 µm under an incident pressure of 20 MPa, and the difference was moderate. The surface morphology of the micromold, original sample, and bottom area of the bulging parts under different incident pressures are presented in Figure 10a, b, and c–f, respectively. As shown in Figure 10c–f, no cracks appeared on the bulging parts; however, surface rolling marks were observed at low incident pressures, and they vanished gradually as the incident pressure increased. When the incident pressure reached 20 MPa, a surface morphology resembling orange peel waves appeared.

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Surface morphology of micromold and samples

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To assess the surface roughness of the bulging parts using a shape measurement laser microscopy system (VK-X250K), the bottom portion of the formed parts was selected as the measurement region because it was difficult to focus on the side of the forming area for the larger forming depth. Subsequently, the sample surface was scanned along three lines denoted as “a” “b” and “c” to obtain the roughness value (Ra), as shown in Figure 11a. Figure 11b shows the Ra of line “a” within the length of H = 100 µm and the corresponding roughness profile. The measured surface roughnesses are summarized in Table 4 in addition to the Ra values of the original sample (0.288 µm) and micromold (0.934 µm).

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Measurement of surface roughness for bulging part

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Table 4 Summary of roughness measurement results
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To better understand the effect of the incident pressure on the surface quality of the bulging parts, Figure 12 shows the average surface roughness value of the center area of the bulging parts under different incident pressures. As shown, the Ra value of the bulging parts increased with the incident pressure within the range of 8 to 20 MPa. This might be attributed to the following reasons: (1) As the incident pressure increased, the mechanical pressure exerted on the workpiece surface increased and caused the foil material to generate a larger plastic deformation by forcing it to flow into the cavity of the rigid micromold. Therefore, a larger friction force and hence a larger surface roughness value of the workpiece were obtained. (2) The shock waves generated by the water-jet cavitation shock microbulging formed micropits on the workpiece surface [28]. The depth of these micropits increased with the incident pressure such that the surface roughness of the workpiece increased significantly. (3) For the surface grains with a lower constraint, the strain incompatibility between neighboring grains was more significant at large deformations; hence, they tended to move or rotate owing to the roughening of intergrains [29].

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Surface roughness of center area of bulging parts under different incident pressures

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3.4 Thickness Thinning Ratio

The thickness measurement of the bulging parts is illustrated in Figure 13. It was evident that the thinning of the thickness occurred in the entire bulging region. This is because the foil material during forming was subjected to stress stretching and became thinner under the clamping force from the locking block and micromold, the pressure from the micro-mold corner at the entrance, and the flow resistance. In particular, under an incident pressure of 20 MPa, the maximum thickness thinning ratio exceeded 16% in the fillet region (i.e., locations 1 and 13).

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Thickness measurement of bulging parts

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The effect of the incident pressure on the thickness thinning ratio is shown in Figure 14. As shown, the maximum thickness thinning ratio appeared in the fillet region of the bulging part under different incident pressures. Some fluctuations were observed, such as the 10th point under the 16 MPa incident pressure and the 6th point under the 20 MPa incident pressure. They were likely induced by the turbulent pressure pulsation of the high-pressure pump. Moreover, the thinning ratio of the bulging parts under different incident pressures decreased from the fillet region to the transition region. This is because the foil material far away from the fillet region was constrained by the micromold and had a lower stress value. However, an irregular thickness distribution was observed from the transition region to the bottom region of the bulging parts. This can be attributed to the inhomogeneous deformation induced by the randomness of the cavitation bubble size and their distributions. When the incident pressure was 20 MPa, the thinning ratio of the bulging parts increased gradually from the transition region to the bottom region. This is because the cavitation bubbles under this incident pressure can enlarge before collapsing, such that a greater impact load is achieved as the cavitation bubbles collapsed [18]. In this case, the compressive stress exerted on the center of the bulging parts was more pronounced as a result of the significant thinning of the bottom region.

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Distribution of thickness thinning ratio under different incident pressures

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Furthermore, according to the results in Section 3.2, under incident pressures of 8, 12, 16 and 20 MPa, the corresponding average forming depths were 80.1, 137.1, 162.7, and 217.7 µm, respectively, whereas the corresponding maximum thickness thinning ratios were 10.8%, 12.9%, 14.62%, and 16.76%, respectively. This indicates that the higher the incident pressure, the stronger is the shock wave induced by the collapse of the cavitation bubbles. Hence, the deformation was deeper and the thinning ratio was larger under the incident pressure of 20 MPa than those under other incident pressures. In other words, as the incident pressure increased from 8 MPa to 20 MPa, the maximum thickness thinning ratio of the formed components increased from 10.8% to 16.76%. It is noteworthy that the thickness thinning ratio was below 10% for most of the bulging parts except their fillet regions. Consequently, the uniformity of the water-jet cavitation shock microbulging parts was significantly better than those of the laser shock microforming parts because the spatial profile of the laser beam was non-uniform over the entire area of the spot and the shock wave pressure obeyed the Gaussian spatial distribution [30, 31]. This implies that the water-jet cavitation shock microbulging process can provide a more uniform thickness distribution owing to the relatively uniform force.

Figure 15 presents the force exerted on the metal foil during the water-jet cavitation shock microbulging. Because it was difficult for the partial foil material to be clamped firmly between the locking block and the micromold surface, workpiece forming was realized via a reduction in thickness and an elongation along the in-plane direction. This resulted in a decrease in the overall thickness of the bulging parts. Moreover, the foil material located in the fillet region assumed the pressure from the corner of the micromold, thereby generating an extensive plastic deformation. In addition, the maximum thickness thinning ratio tended to appear in this region. Accordingly, it can be inferred that cracking will occur in this region if the incident pressure is extremely high.

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Force acting on metal foil during water-jet cavitation shock microbulging

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4 Conclusions

A novel water-jet cavitation shock microbulging process was proposed, and the effect of the incident pressure on the forming depth and profile of the bugling parts was investigated in addition to their surface topography and thickness distribution. The main conclusions are as follows.

  1. (1)

    The water-jet cavitation shock microbulging process can be used for the plastic forming of TA2 titanium foil successfully.

  2. (2)

    The incident pressure is an important parameter in the process of water-jet cavitation shock microbulging. The plastic deformation of TA2 titanium foil increased nonlinearly with the incident pressure.

  3. (3)

    A spherical cap can be obtained using water-jet cavitation shock microbulging. When the incident pressure was 20 MPa, the height of the cap exceeded 240 µm.

  4. (4)

    As the incident pressure increased, the surface roughness of the center area of the bulging parts increased gradually.

  5. (5)

    The thickness thinning ratio was generally below 10% for most of the bulging parts except their fillet regions. This indicates that the forming area of the bulging parts exhibited a considerably uniform thickness distribution.

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The authors sincerely thank Professor Li of Jiangsu University for his critical discussion and reading during manuscript preparation.

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Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51575245, 51679112), Jiangsu Province Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. BE2016161), Jiangsu Province “Six Talents Peak” Project of China (Grant No. XNYQC-002).

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FL and HF were in charge of the whole trial; FL and YW wrote the manuscript; and other authors assisted with sampling and laboratory analyses. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

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Fuzhu Li born in 1971, is currently an associate professor at Jiangsu University, China. He received his PhD degree from Jiangsu University, China, in 2009. His research interests include mechanical electro-hydraulic systems and cavitation of hydraulic systems.

Haiyang Fan born in 1994, is currently a master candidate at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University, China.

Yun Wang born in 1975, is currently a professor at Jiangsu University, China. He received his PhD degree from Yanshan University, China, in 2003. His research interests include laser micromachining, surface engineering, and non-traditional machining processes.

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Li, F., Fan, H., Guo, Y. et al. Water-Jet Cavitation Shock Bulging as Novel Microforming Technique. Chin. J. Mech. Eng. 34, 4 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s10033-020-00518-3

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