A. A. Abdulrazeg¹, J. Noorzaei^1,2, P. Khanehzaei¹, M. S. Jaafar¹, T. A. Mohammed¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.68, No.3, pp. 239-268, 2010, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2010.068.239

Abstract Development of temperature rise in massive concrete structure such as a roller compacted concrete dam is attributed to hydration of concrete and environmental boundary conditions. These thermal changes in the material affect the elastic, creep properties of the material, and in turn, the stress fields within the structure. Therefore, the effects of temperature on the properties of RCC materials( elastic, creep) has to be taken into account in order to determine the risk of the thermally induced cracking in these dams. In the present work an attempt has been made to consider the effect of temperature on the elastic and… More >

Baoyu Ma¹, Guansuo Dui¹, Shengyou Yang², Libiao Xin¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.109-110, No.6, pp. 537-554, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2015.109.537

Abstract This article focuses on the analytical solution for uniform heating of a FGM hollow sphere made of two phase of different materials. It is assumed that the volume fraction of one phase is a function f1=(rn-an)/(bn-an) varied in the radial direction. Based on the Voigt constant strain approximation, analytical solutions of stresses, displacements and the effective coefficient of thermal expansion are obtained. The effects of the volume fraction, Poisson’s ratio, Young’s moduli and coefficients of thermal expansion on the solutions are studied. Two special cases, constant elastic modulus and constant coefficient of thermal expansion, are finally discussed. More >

Yoshihiro Ochiai¹, Vladimir Sladek², Jan Sladek²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.87, No.1, pp. 41-54, 2012, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2012.087.041

Abstract The conventional boundary element method (BEM) requires a domain integral in unsteady thermal stress analysis with heat generation or an initial temperature distribution. In this paper it is shown that the three-dimensional unsteady thermal stress problem can be solved effectively using the triple-reciprocity boundary element method without internal cells. In this method, the distributions of heat generation and initial temperature are interpolated using integral equations and time-dependent fundamental solutions are used. A new computer program was developed and applied to solving several problems. More >

Yoshihiro OCHIAI¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.79, No.2, pp. 83-102, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2011.079.083

Abstract In general, internal cells are required to solve unsteady thermo-elasto -plastic problems using a conventional boundary element method (BEM). However, in this case, the merit of BEM, which is the easy preparation of data, is lost. The conventional multiple-reciprocity boundary element method (MRBEM) cannot be used to solve thermo-elastoplastic problems, because the distribution of initial stress cannot be determined analytically. In this paper, it is shown that two-dimensional unsteady thermo-elastoplastic problems can be solved without the use of internal cells by using the triple-reciprocity BEM and a thin plate spline. The initial stress formulation is adopted and the initial stress… More >

Yueting Zhou¹, Xing Li², Dehao Yu¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.43, No.3, pp. 191-222, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.043.191

Abstract The transient response of an orthotropic functionally graded strip with a partially insulated crack under convective heat transfer supply is considered. It is modeled there exists thermal resistant in the heat conduction through the crack region. The mixed boundary value problems of the temperature field and displacement field are reduced to a system of singular integral equations in Laplace domain. The expressions with high order asymptotic terms for the singular integral kernel are considered to improve the accuracy and efficiency. The numerical results present the effect of the material nonhomogeneous parameters, the orthotropic parameters and dimensionless thermal resistant on the… More >

Xiaolin Chen, Yijun Liu¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.2, No.3, pp. 337-350, 2001, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2001.002.337

Abstract An advanced boundary element method (BEM) is developed in this paper for analyzing thin layered structures, such as thin films and coatings, under the thermal loading. The boundary integral equation (BIE) formulation for steady-state thermoelasticity is reviewed and a special case, that is, the BIE for a uniform distribution of the temperature change, is presented. The new nearly-singular integrals arising from the applications of the BIE/BEM to thin layered structures under thermal loading are treated in the same way as developed earlier for thin structures under the mechanical loading. Three 2-D test problems involving layered thin films and coatings on… More >

N. Miyazaki¹, T. Tamura², K. Yamamoto¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 99-106, 2000, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2000.001.099

Abstract Quantitative estimation of the failure of a gadolinium orthosilicate (Gd₂SiO₅, hereafter abbreviated as GSO) single crystal induced by thermal stress was investigated. A GSO cylindrical test specimen was heated in a silicone oil bath, then subjected to large thermal stress by room temperature silicone oil. Cracking occurred during cooling. The transient heat conduction analysis was performed to obtain temperature distribution in the test specimen at the time of cracking, using the surface temperatures measured in the test. Then the thermal stress was calculated using the temperature profile of the test specimen obtained from the heat conduction analysis. It is found… More >

Chein-Shan Liu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.8, No.1, pp. 1-16, 2008, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2008.008.001

Abstract In the present work we study numerical computations of inverse thermal stress problems. The unknown boundary conditions of an elastically deformable heat conducting rod are not given a priori and are not allowed to measure directly, because the boundary may be not accessible to measure. However, an internal measurement of temperature is available. We treat this inverse problem by using a semi-discretization technique, of which the time domain is divided into many sub-intervals and the physical quantities are discretized at these node points of discrete times. Then the resulting ordinary differential equations in the discretized space are numerically integrated towards… More >