Analytical Solution for Thermoelastic Stress Wave Propagation in an Orthotropic Hollow Cylinder

Abstract

The problem of thermoelastic stress wave propagation in an orthotropic hollow cylinder is investigated using analytical methods. The fully coupled classical theory of thermoelasticity is used to extract the equations for an orthotropic cylinder. To solve the boundary value problem, heat conduction equation and equation of motion are divided into two different sets of equations, the first set consists of uncoupled equations with considering boundary conditions and the second set comprises coupled ones with initial conditions. Finite Hankel transform (Fourier-Bessel expansion) is utilized to solve the problem with respect to radial variable. Two different cases, pure mechanical load and pure thermal load, were studied numerically to show the effect of considering the thermomechanical coupling term in the heat conduction equation. To show the effect of considering the coupling term in the heat conduction equation, the temperature history is plotted for the pure mechanical load case, where the temperature rises without applying any thermal load. By applying boundary conditions on the inner surface of the cylinder, initiation of the stress waves from the inner surface of the cylinder, propagation through the thickness in the radial direction and reflection from the outer surface were observed in the plotted figures.