Taking vibration converter of intelligent damper for drill strings as the study object, this paper analyzes the influential factors of motion state of the ball and conducts an explicit dynamics simulation by establishing a mechanics model of vibration converter. The study basis is Newton’s laws of motion, d’alembert’s principle and hertz contact theory. and we use world coordinate system, rotating coordinate system and Frenet coordinate system to deduce kinematics equations of vibration converter. The ultimate result demonstrates that the axial velocity and maximum contact stress change with the increment of ball diameter and helix angle.It also proves the validity of our derived kinematics and mechanical models and provides a good consultant value for the design and theoretical arithmetic of vibration converter for intelligent damper of drill strings.

The fundamentally changing nature of fracture in brittle coatings on compliant substrates with diminishing coating thickness is examined. Attention is focused on cracking induced by concentrated loading with a spherical indenter at the top surface. It is shown that the fracture mode undergoes transitions, from top-surface ring cracking around the contact (“thick-coating” region) to bottom-surface radial cracking at the lower ceramic surface (“intermediate” region) and, finally, back to surface ring cracking (“thin-coating” region). These transitions reflect a progressively changing stress field in the layer structures and highlight the differences in failure mechanism that may be anticipated at the large- and small-scale levels. Simple fracture relations are derived for each mode, expressing critical loads in terms of coating thickness relative to contact or sphere radius, coating strength and coating/substrate modulus mismatch. Data from finite element simulations and contact experiments on model ceramic/polymer bilayer systems are used to validate the basic elements of the analytical relations and to quantify deviations. Implications of the transitional behavior in relation to the strength of brittle coating/film systems are discussed.