Thermomechanical Behavior of Electrically Conducting Solids Exposed to an External Electromagnetic Field

This paper describes a procedure for the mathematical and numerical modeling of the thermomechanical behavior of electrically conducting solid bodies exposed to an external electromagnetic field. The constitutive equations for the electromagnetic field are the Maxwell equations written for the region of the solid body and the ambient medium. The stress-strain state of the solid is described using the relations for nonisothermal elastoplastic flow. The effects of the electromagnetic field on the heat-transfer and deformation processes are taken into account via heat release and ponderomotive forces, respectively. The relations between the electric and magnetic inductions and the corresponding field strengths are considered nonlinear. All physicomechanical parameters of the body material are temperature dependent.__________Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 14–26, September–October, 2005.