Thermomechanical dynamic behavior of a disk subject to an impulsive thermal load at the center

The dynamic coupled thermoelastic problem formulation and the thermodynamically consistent theory of inelastic behavior of materials are used to solve an axisymmetric problem for a steel disk subject to a heat pulse at the center. The temperature dependence of the physical and mechanical properties of the disk is taken into account. The problem is solved by the FEM. The evolution in time and features of the strain-stress and thermal states of the disk and the dynamic effects accompanying the processes of heating and gradual cooling are studied __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 45–57, May 2008.