Ritz solutions for axisymmetric temperature and stress fields in finite elastic cylinders

Abstract

AbstractVariational formulations are given for the stationary heat conduction and thermodelasticity problems of an orthotropic, non‐homogeneous, finite length, cylinder. It is demonstrated that a single‐element approach based upon Ritz approximations and the method of Lagrange multipliers offers and efficient means for computing the temperature and thermal stress distributions.