Effect of magnetic field on the thermo-elastic response of a rotating FGM Circular disk with non-uniform thickness

Abstract

In this study, the effect of the magnetic field on the thermo-elastic response of a rotating non-uniform circular disk of functionally graded material (FGM) is investigated for both steady and transient states of temperature. A single second-order ordinary differential equation of motion was developed for an FGM disk and solved along with the boundary conditions using the finite-difference method (FDM). The steady-state and transient heat conduction equations were also solved using the finite-difference method. Numerical results were presented and discussed for an Al/Al2O3 FGM disk of exponentially varying material properties keeping Poisson’s ratio and magnetic permeability uniform. Displacement and stress components were analyzed by increasing the intensity of the magnetic field for different cases of steady and transient states of temperature. The analysis suggests that the magnetic field has a remarkable effect on the displacement and stress distributions. It is also found that, high intensity of the magnetic field changes the nature and location of maximum stress. The transient analysis of magneto-thermo-elastic field suggests that the increase in the intensity of magnetic field results in the increase in stress intensity near the outer region of the disk and maximum radial stress always exceeds maximum circumferential stress. The effects of inner and outer surface radius, thermal gradient between inner and outer surface, and the outer surface thickness were also analyzed in detail. It was found that, with the decrease in outer surface radius and thermal gradient between inner and outer surface, maximum circumferential stress becomes higher than the maximum radial stress. In addition, the soundness and accuracy of the solutions were verified with the results from the standard computational method and analytical solution.