Axially symmetric stress-strain state of a body with plane sheet of heat sources

Abstract

The problem of determination of the stationary temperature field in a body with plane sheet of heat sources is reduced to the solution of an integral equation of the first kind. A method for the determination of the set of solutions to this equation is proposed. The components of the vector of elastic displacements and the components of the tensor of temperature stresses are found according to the known temperature field by using the equations of thermoelasticity. We study the distributions of thermal displacements and stresses for any axially symmetric distribution of temperature in a circular domain. Numerous elements of contemporary engineering constructions operate under conditions of nonuniform heating that promote the formation of temperature gradients and thermal stresses. For the comprehensive analysis of the strength of structures, it is necessary to know the levels of thermal stresses and the character of their action. The investigation of the thermoelastic state of heat-generating elements is of high importance for practical purposes [9]. The presence of thin heat-generating inclusions in a body leads to the formation of tensile or compressive stresses. In the first case, the action of these stresses, together with the action of the other factors, may lead to crack initiation and propagation. In the second case, the action of stresses may decrease the intensity of stresses in the vicinity of the existing crack under force loading and promote the formation of conditions inhibiting the process of crack growth [10]. In the investigation of the stressed state of a body with thermally active cracks (with temperature or heat fluxes given on these cracks), the determination of stresses acting at the sites of the cracks is an intermediate stage and then the stresses acting upon the crack surfaces are removed. The major part of investigations of the stress-strain state of bodies with circular thermally active or heatinsulated cracks are performed for axially symmetric problems by the method of integral Hankel transformation and dual integral equations [11–16]. In [3], a method of two-dimensional boundary integral equations based on the theory of the Newton potential is developed for the solution of three-dimensional problems of stationary heat conduction and thermoelasticity for bodies with cracks. According to this method, the densities of potentials in the problem of heat conduction are the intensities of heat sources at the sites of the cracks determined, for given temperatures on the cracks, from the integral equations with polar kernels. The temperature field and stressed state of a body with given temperature or heat flow in a circular domain described by polynomials of the third degree are investigated in [4]. In the axially symmetric case, for polynomials of any degree, this problem is studied in [5]. According to the classic statement of the problems of stationary heat conduction with thermally active inclusions [4, 5], the presence of heat sources is postulated solely in the domain of the inclusion, which leads to singular distributions of the heat flows on its edges.