A generalized method for photoelastic studies of transient thermal stresses

This paper describes the apparatus and experimental method which was developed for generalized studies of transient thermal stresses in photoelastic models of many different shapes under a variety of steady-state or transient temperature conditions. It explains how the desired temperature gradients are established in the models and how rapidly changing temperature and stress profiles are monitored during a test. The experimental method is used to study the stresses in a three-dimensional photothermoelastic model subjected to three different temperature sequences. These are: symmetrical cooling of both faces of a thick plate initially at a uniform temperature; heating of one face only of a thick plate initially at a uniform temperature; and heating of only the cold face of a thick plate with an initial linear temperature gradient through its thickness. The last sequence generated temperature profiles which relate to conditions where internal heating is present. The resultant temperature and stress histories for each case are presented graphically and similarity scales are applied to give correct time-stress relations for a typical steel prototype. The magnitude and time of occurrence of the peak stresses on the boundary, as well as in the interior of the plate are found. These stresses are very high and occur comparatively late in each test, at a time when the temperature of the central plane has already started to respond to the changing conditions at the surface. The model was of the sandwich-type construction used by previous investigators, which has a built-in polariscope to isolate a transverse plane for viewing.     

Coherent gradient sensing method for measuring thermal stress field of thermal barrier coating structures

Coherent gradient sensing(CGS)method can be used to measure the slope of a reflective surface,and has the merits of full-field,non-contact,and real-time measurement.In this study,the thermal stress field of thermal barrier coating(TBC)structures is measured by CGS method.Two kinds of powders were sprayed onto Ni-based alloy using a plasma spraying method to obtain two groups of film–substrate specimens.The specimens were then heated with an oxy-acetylene flame.The resulting thermal mismatch between the film and substrate led to out-of-plane deformation of the specimen.The deformation was measured by the reflective CGS method and the thermal stress field of the structure was obtained through calibration with the help of finite element analysis.Both the experiment and numerical results showed that the thermal stress field of TBC structures can be successfully measured by CGS method.     

轴对称热冲击SIF过渡过程分析的热权函数法

热权函数法利用温度与热权函数的乘积的积分来直接计算热冲击过程中裂纹尖端的应力强度因子过渡过程。热权函数与时间τ无关,由于免除了对每一时刻τ所需作的有限元或边界元分析,计算过程大大简化,计算效率得到极大提高,本文将热权函数与有限元法直接耦合,给出了基于刚度阵导数法的轴对称问题的热权函数计算格式,实例计算表明,本文给出的热权函数计算格式具有满意的计算精度。     

冲击载荷下瞬态温度的实时测量方法

将红外瞬态测温装置引入SHPB冲击实验,确定了不同材料试件的温度标定曲线,并实时测量了冲击下Al合金和伪弹性TiNi合金试样的表面温度。结果表明,2种试样温度变化都经历了加载过程的温度升高,主要不同在于卸载过程,Al合金卸载过程中温度保持最大加载温度不变,而TiNi合金试样卸载过程中温度降低,这反映了2种材料不同的物理变形过程和温度变化机制。直接红外测温的实验结果与根据能量守恒理论计算的温度较好吻合,说明采用的红外测温方法实时测量冲击瞬态温度是可行的。

     

Stochastic transient analysis of thermal stresses in solids by explicit time-domain method

Stochastic heat conduction and thermal stress analysis of structures has received considerable attention in recent years. The propagation of uncertain thermal environments will lead to stochastic variations in temperature fields and thermal stresses. Therefore, it is reasonable to consider the variability of thermal environments while conducting thermal analysis. However, for ambient thermal excitations, only stationary random processes have been investigated thus far. In this study, the highly efficient explicit time-domain method(ETDM) is proposed for the analysis of non-stationary stochastic transient heat conduction and thermal stress problems. The explicit time-domain expressions of thermal responses are first constructed for a thermoelastic body. Then the statistical moments of thermal displacements and stresses can be directly obtained based on the explicit expressions of thermal responses. A numerical example involving non-stationary stochastic internal heat generation rate is investigated. The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method are validated by comparison with the Monte-Carlo simulation.     

A simple method for measuring surface strains around cracks

A simple system has been developed to measure surface strains that occur during in situ deformation of mechanical test specimens. The system uses photolithographically deposited displacement markers and computer image recognition routines to determine in-plane displacements and strains from digital images. The strain calculating routines are integrated into a simple mouse-driven software package that facilitates the transformation from digital images to useful strain field information. Additional routines have been developed to determine crack tip stress fields and J integrals. Crack tip stress intensities have been calculated from strain maps obtained for traction-free cracks in stainless steel. The J integrals were found to be independent of contour and consistent with applied stress intensities. Crack tip stress intensities were calculated for bridged cracks in lamellar TiAl. The toughening effect of the bridging zones was determined by including the bridged region in the contours. Resistance curves generated from strain maps were consistent with those measured during mechanical testing.     

Estimate of the transient conduction of heat in materials with linear thermal properties based on the solution for constant properties

A method of analysis is described which yields quasianalytical solutions for one and multidimensional unsteady heat conduction problems with linearly dependent thermal properties, such as thermal conductivity and volumetric specific heat. The method accomodates rather general thermal boundary conditions including arbitrary variations in surface temperature or in surface heat flux or a convective exchange with a fluid having even varying temperature. Once the solution for the identical problem but with constant properties has been developed, its practical realization is rather direct, being facilitated by a reduced number of iterations. The four applied examples given in this work show that a wide variety of nonlinear heat conduction problems can be tackled by this procedure without much difficulty. These simple solutions compare favorably with more laborious results reported in the archival heat transfer literature.

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Berechnung nichtstationärer Wärmeleitvorgänge mit linear temperaturabhängigen Stoffwerten aus der Lösung für konstante Stoffwerte

Zusammenfassung Es werden quasi-analytische Lösungen für ein- und mehrdimensionale nichtstationäre Wärmeleitprobleme mit linear temperaturabhängigen Stoffwerten, wie Wärmeleitfähigkeit und volumetrische Wärmekapazität, mitgeteilt. Die Methode gilt für recht allgemeine Randbedingungen wie beliebige Veränderungen der Oberflächentemperatur, der Wärmestromdichte oder auch konvektiven Wärmeaustausch mit veränderlicher Fluidtemperatur. Ist die Lösung für das identische Problem mit konstanten Stoffwerten bekannt, kann die Methode direkt mit einer begrenzten Zahl von Iterationen angewandt werden. Die vier hier mitgeteilten Beispiele zeigen, daß eine große Zahl nichtlinearer Wärmeleitprobleme auf diese Weise ohne Schwierigkeit angepackt werden können. Die einfachen Lösungen stimmen befriedigend mit komplizierteren Ergebnissen aus der Literatur überein.

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Nomenclature a side of square bar - B _i0 reference Biot number,hR/k₀ - B _i0 ^T transformed Biot number, equation (16) - c geometric parameter, equation (8) - h convective coefficient - k thermal conductivity - k ₀ value ofk atT ₀ - K dimensionless thermal conductivity,k/k ₀ - K _i value ofK at _i - K _i+1 value ofK at _i+1 - m _k slope of theK- line, equation (3) - m _s slope of theS- line, equation (4) - R characteristic length - s volumetric specific heat - s ₀ value of s at T₀ - S dimensionless volumetric specific heat, s/s₀ - S _i value ofS at _i - S _i+1 value of S at _i+1 - t time - T temperature - T ₀ reference temperature - x, y cartesian coordinates - X, Y dimensionless cartesian coordinates,x/a andy/a - thermal diffusivity - _k transformed time, equation (11) - _s transformed time, equation (37) - _k dimensionless time for variable conductivity, equation (8) - _s dimensionless time for variable specific heat, equation (34) - dimensionless temperature,T/T ₀ - dimensionless coordinate,r/R - ₀ value of at T₀ - _i lower value of the interval (_i, _i+1) - _i+1 upper value of the interval (_i, _i+1     

A simple method for measuring local buckling of thin plates

A simple computer-interfaced optical system for measuring the dynamic-local-buckling deformation of thin-walled metal structural-plate elements is described in this paper with two sets of experimental results. The major advantage of this system is its simplicity and economy as well as its speedy automated process for data scanning, acquisition, and analyses by using a microcomputer.Paper was presented at the 1986 SEM Spring Conference on Experimental Mechanics held in New Orleans, LA on June 8–13.     

Nonlinear transient thermal stress analysis of thick-walled FGM cylinder with temperature-dependent material properties

In this paper, the problem of generalized thermoelasticity in a thick-walled FGM cylinder with one relaxation time is presented. The material properties are taking as function of temperature and graded in the radial. Due to the nonlinearity of the governing equations, finite element method is adopted to solve such problem. Both the inner and outer curved surfaces of the cylinder are stress free while the inner surface is subjected to thermal shock, while the outer surface is thermally isolated. The effects of temperature-dependent properties, volume fraction parameter and the thermal relaxation time on the physical quantities behavior are evaluated. Results confirm the efficiency of the present algorithm and reveal the significant effects of the temperature-dependent of the material properties.     

A high accurate time-domain-advance integration method for transient elastodynamic problems

All step-by-step integration methods available at present for structural dynamic analysis use the displacement, velocity, and acceleration vectors computed at a previous interval for evaluating those at an advanced time step. Hence, an accumulated error will be definitely introduced after such integration. This paper presents a novel time-domain-advance integration method for transient elastodynamic problems in which the exact initial conditions are strictly satisfied for the solutions for each time step. In this way, the accumulated error can be eliminated and the approximate solutions will converge to the exact ones uniformly on the whole time domain. Therefore, the new method is more accurate. When applying to a structural dynamic problem, the present mehtod does not have to use the initial acceleration as is required by most other algorithms and the corresponding computation can be avoided. The present method is simple in representation, easy to be programmed, and especially suitable for accurate analyses of long-time problems. The comparison of numerical results with exact ones shows that the present method is much more accurate than some most widely used algorithms.