Abstract
AbstractWe developed in this paper a variational formulation of heat diffusion equation applicable to the flat shell context and cellular structures. For this purpose, we introduce the average mid‐surface temperature field, through‐the‐thickness gradient and their dual generalized fluxes. Moreover, we introduced radiative heat exchange in the same way, which leads to a non‐linear and unsymmetrical thermal discrete problem. The model performance is illustrated by several numerical examples concerning cellular structures like hollow clay bricks submitted to thermal loading. Thermo‐mechanical coupling for such structure which is well adapted to the shell‐like modelling approach, is presented in the elastic regime with the numerical results concerning temperature field and forces. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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