Transient thermal stresses in a strip with an eccentric hole

A procedure is presented for dealing with the constraint associated with the direction of the thickness of a thin model and for obtaining transient thermal stresses under plane-stress conditions; the stresses are induced by severe thermal loads. Thermal-stress-concentration factor in an unrestrained strip with an eccentric circular hole placed near the thermally loaded edge is obtained. One straight edge of the strip is cooled and the others are insulated. Consequently, two cases for which the hole acts remarkably as a stress raiser are found.