Boundary element method for thermoelastic analysis of three-dimensional transversely isotropic solids

Thermal effects are well known to manifest themselves as additional volume integral terms in the direct formulation of the boundary integral equation (BIE) for linear elastic solids when using the boundary element method (BEM). This domain integral has been successfully transformed in an exact manner to surface ones only in isotropy and in 2D anisotropy, thereby restoring the BEM as a truly boundary solution technique. The difficulties with extending it to 3D general anisotropic solids lie in the mathematical complexity of the Green’s function and its derivatives for such materials. These quantities are required items in the BEM formulation. In this paper, the exact, analytical transformation of the volume integral associated with thermal effects to surface ones is achieved for a transversely isotropic material using a similar approach which the authors have previously employed for the same task in BEM for 2D general anisotropy. A numerical scheme, however, needs to be employed to evaluate some of the new terms introduced in the surface integrals that arise from this process here. The mathematical soundness of the formulation is demonstrated by a few examples; the numerical results obtained are checked by alternative means, including those obtained from the commercial FEM code, ANSYS.     

Exponential decay in a thermoelastic mixture of solids

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the initial boundary value problem for a one-dimensional mixture of thermoelastic solids. Our main result is to establish a necessary and sufficient condition over the coefficients of the system to get the exponential stability of the corresponding semigroup. We also prove the impossibility of time localization of solutions.     

On theory of generalized thermoelastic solids with voids and diffusion

Governing equations of thermoelastic diffusion material with voids are modified with the help of Lord and Shulman theory of generalized thermoelasticity. These governing equations are then solved in two-dimension to show the existence of four coupled longitudinal waves and a shear wave. The complex absolute values of the speeds of the coupled longitudinal waves are computed numerically against the frequency for Magnesium material. The reflection of these plane waves from a stress free thermally insulated boundary is also studied, where the dependence of the reflection coefficients on angle of incidence is shown graphically for the incidence of coupled longitudinal wave only. The speeds and reflection coefficients of plane waves are also computed numerically in the absence of voids and diffusion parameters, which are shown graphically to observe the effects of voids and diffusion.     

On shock waves in a special class of thermoelastic solids

This paper describes a thermoelastic model for shock waves in uniaxial strain based on a subclass of the so-called materials of Mie–Grüneisen type. We compare the Hugoniot curve with the isotherms and isentropes for this model, and we construct the shock-wave solution to a simple impact problem.     

Incremental response of thermoelastic solids with initial thermal and mechanical fields

The equations describing the incremental response of a thermoelastic solid under pre-existing mechanical and thermal fields are derived. The associated differential system is shown to be self-adjoint. This property in turn is used to establish the equivalence of linear static and dynamic stability criteria.Received: 10 November 2002, Accepted: 6 January 2003, Published online: 23 April 2003E. Soós: deceased     

Slip/diffusion zone effects at rapidly-loaded cracks in thermoelastic solids

The effect of a zone of slip and diffusion mechanisms that form prior to the onset of plastic yield at the edge of a rapidly-loaded Mode I crack in a fully-coupled thermoelastic material is studied. The resulting initial/mixed boundary value problem is solved exactly in the transform space, despite the existence of poles and branch points that vary with the time transform variable.Crack edge stress singularity relaxation is assumed, and this condition leads to exact expressions for the time transforms of a zone characterization function and the temperature change induced ahead of the crack. Study of their inverses for long, i.e. O(1)s, times after loading shows that a slip/diffusion process that is consistent with rapid crack surface separation can indeed relax elastic stresses, but that high temperature increases may well have to await the development of full plasticity and fracture at the crack edge.     

On the asymptotic spatial behaviour in the theory of mixtures of thermoelastic solids

This paper is concerned with the study of asymptotic spatial behaviour of solutions in a mixture consisting of two thermoelastic solids. A second-order differential inequality for an adequate volumetric measure and the maximum principle for solutions of the one-dimensional heat equation are used to establish a spatial decay estimate of solutions in an unbounded body occupied by the mixture. For a fixed time, the result in question proves that the mechanical and thermal effects are controlled by an exponential decay estimate in terms of the square of the distance from the support of the external given data. The decay constant depends only on the thermal constitutive coefficients of the mixture.     

Weak shock waves and shear bands in compressible,inextensible thermoelastic solids

A study of weak shock waves propagating into a solid, which is compressible but temperature-dependent extensible in a specified direction is presented. The inextensible solid is also considered. The constitutive equations of constrained thermoelastic material are written as the summation of constrained and unconstrained counterparts of the relevant quantities. The equation of motion of weak shock waves, which is recovered by the theory of singular surfaces, reduces to an eigenvalue problem. The solution of this eigenvalue problem yields the speeds of propagation of weak shock waves. In the case of an undeformed solid, the speeds of these waves are explicitly expressed. Additionally, a discussion on the ductility limits of constrained thermoelastic material subjected to the uniaxial and biaxial extensions is presented.     

On wave propagation in thermoelastic solids whose polarization quadric is an ellipsoid of revolution

Summary The propagation of plane waves of first and second order is considered for a thermoelastic solid characterized by Tolotti's isothermal potential. The variation of their amplitude in the time is also studied. In particular, thermodynamic influences on the behavior of the first order waves as well as the case when these plane waves are material surfaces are examined.

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Sommario Si studia la propagazione di un'onda piana sia del primo che del secondo ordine in solidi termoelastici comprimibili assumendo il potenziale isotermo proposto da C. Tolotti. Si determina inoltre la variazione nel tempo dell'ampiezza delle onde. In particolare per l'onda del primo ordine si esaminano le influenze termodinamiche sul fenomeno e si considera la possibilità che la superficie di discontinuità sia materiale.

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Work performed under the auspices of: Gruppo Nazionale perla Fisica Matematica del CNR presso l'Istituto di Matematiche Applicate U. Dini della Facoltà di Ingegneria dell'Università di Pisa.     

Continuum thermodynamic formulation of models for electromagnetic thermoinelastic solids with application in electromagnetic metal forming

The purpose of this work is the formulation and application of a continuum thermodynamic approach to the phenomenological modeling of a class of engineering materials which can be dynamically formed using strong magnetic fields. This is carried out in the framework of a thermodynamic, internal-variable-based formulation in which the deformation, temperature and magnetic fields are in general coupled. This coupling takes the form of the Lorentz force as an additional supply of momentum, and the electromotive power as an additional supply of energy, in the material. In the current approach, the basic thermomechanical field relations for mass, momentum and moment of momentum are obtained from the total energy balance via invariance, and completed by Maxwells field equations. The constitutive formulation is based on the exploitation of the Müller-Liu entropy principle, here for the case of isotropic thermoelastic, viscoplastic material behaviour. The resulting reduced constitutive and field relations and restrictions are then applied to the modeling and simulation of high-speed electromagnetic forming of metal tubes and sheet metal. In this context, scaling arguments show that, over the relevant length- and timescales of engineering interest, the evolution of the magnetic field is diffusive in nature, and thermal conduction is negligible. Comparison of the simulation and experimental results for the final sheet metal form shows very good agreement.Received: 16 March 2004, Accepted: 6 May 2004, Published online: 17 September 2004PACS: 46.05. + b, 46.25.Hf, 46.35 + z Correspondence to: B. Svendsen     

Path dependency in thermoelastic stress analysis

In this paper we review the basis of the technique for thermoelastic stress analysis and, in particular, we examine the relationship between the theory and the technique in common practice. The theory of thermoelastic stress analysis is based on the thermomechanical behavior of bodies, which takes strain and temperature as state variables that are path-independent, whereas the conventional instrumentation used in thermoelastic stress analysis involves an integration of photon flux derived from a body's surface temperature, and hence is time- and path-dependent. This inconsistency might be negligible for some, or perhaps most, applications. However, in those cases where the waveform of the loading is irregular, experiments have shown that the difference can be significant. The nature of most apparatus for thermoelastic stress analysis implies that this results is important when conducting experiments in which the forcing signal is unknown or not sinusoidal. J.R. Estrada Estrada was a Research Student and E.A. Patterson (SEM Member) was a Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S 3JD, UK.     

Propagation of plane waves at the imperfect boundary of elastic and electro-microstretch generalized thermoelastic solids

The problem of reflection and transmission of plane waves incident on the contact surface of an elastic solid and an electro-microstretch generalized thermoelastic solid is discussed. It is found that there exist five reflected waves, i.e., longitudinal displacement （LD） wave, thermal （T） wave, longitudinal microstretch （LM） wave and two coupled transverse displacement and microrotational （CD（I） and CD（II）） waves in the electro-microstretch generalized thermoelastic solid, and two transmitted waves, i.e., longitudinal （P） and transverse （SV） waves in the elastic solid. The amplitude ratios of different reflected and transmitted waves are obtained for an imperfect boundary and deduced for normal force stiffness, transverse force stiffness, and perfect bonding. The variations of amplitude ratios with incidence angles have been depicted graphically for the LD wave and the CD（I） wave. It is noticed that the amplitude ratios of reflected and transmitted waves are affected by the stiffness, electric field, stretch, and thermal properties of the media. Some particular interest cases have been deduced from the present investigations.     

Fracture dynamics problems of orthotropic solids under anti-plane shear loading

By application of the approaches of the theory of complex functions, fracture dynamics problems of orthotropic solids under anti-plane shear loading were researched. Universal representation of analytical solutions was obtained by means of self-similar functions. The problems dealt with can be facilely transformed into Riemann–Hilbert problems by this technique, and analytical solutions of the stress, the displacement and dynamic stress intensity factor under the actions of moving increasing loads Px ²/t ² and Pt ³/x ² for the edges of asymmetrical mode III crack, respectively, were acquired. In the light of corresponding material properties, the variable rule of dynamic stress intensity factor was illustrated very well.