Extended Stroh formalism for plane problems of thermoelasticity of quasicrystals with applications to Green’s functions and fracture mechanics

Abstract

The paper proposes a transparent and compact form of constitutive and equilibrium relations for the plane thermoelasticity of quasicrystal solids. The symmetry and positive definiteness of the obtained extended tensors of material constants are studied. An extension of the Stroh formalism is proposed for solving plane problems of thermoelasticity for quasicrystals. It is proved that the eigenvalues of the Stroh eigenvalue problem in the most general case of 3D quasicrystal materials do are purely complex. The relations between the matrices and vectors of phonon–phason elastic and thermoelastic coefficients of the proposed extended Stroh formalism are obtained. A fundamental solution to the plane problem of thermoelasticity of a quasicrystal medium is derived. The asymptotic behavior of physical and mechanical fields near the vertices of objects whose geometry can be modeled by a discontinuity line (cracks, thin inclusions) is studied, and the concepts of the corresponding generalized field (heat flux and phonon–phason stress) intensity factors are introduced. Examples of the influence of heat sources and sinks on an infinite quasicrystal medium containing a rectilinear heated crack are considered.