This paper presents a new strategy of using the radial integration boundary element method (RIBEM) to solve non-homogeneous heat conduction and thermoelasticity problems. In the method, the evaluation of the radial ...This paper presents a new strategy of using the radial integration boundary element method (RIBEM) to solve non-homogeneous heat conduction and thermoelasticity problems. In the method, the evaluation of the radial in-tegral which is used to transform domain integrals to equivalent boundary integrals is carried out on the basis of elemental nodes. As a result, the computational time spent in evaluating domain integrals can be saved considerably in comparison with the conventional RIBEM. Three numerical examples are given to demonstrate the correctness and computational efficiency of the proposed approach.展开更多
This paper studies the effective properties of multi-phase thermoelastic composites. Based on the Helmholtz free energy and the Gibbs free energy of individual phases, the effective elastic tensor, thermal-expansion t...This paper studies the effective properties of multi-phase thermoelastic composites. Based on the Helmholtz free energy and the Gibbs free energy of individual phases, the effective elastic tensor, thermal-expansion tensor, and specific heats of the multi-phase composites are derived by means of the volume average of free-energies of these phases. Particular emphasis is placed on the derivation of new analytical expressions of effective specific heats at constant-strain and constant-stress situations, in which a modified Eshelby's micromechanics theory is developed and the interaction between inclusions is considered. As an illustrative example, the analytical expression of the effective specific heat for a three-phase thermoelastic composite is presented.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10872050, 11172055)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Centred Universities (DUT11ZD(G)01)
文摘This paper presents a new strategy of using the radial integration boundary element method (RIBEM) to solve non-homogeneous heat conduction and thermoelasticity problems. In the method, the evaluation of the radial in-tegral which is used to transform domain integrals to equivalent boundary integrals is carried out on the basis of elemental nodes. As a result, the computational time spent in evaluating domain integrals can be saved considerably in comparison with the conventional RIBEM. Three numerical examples are given to demonstrate the correctness and computational efficiency of the proposed approach.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 10602002 and 10932001)the Major State Basic Research Development Program (No. 2010CB731503)
文摘This paper studies the effective properties of multi-phase thermoelastic composites. Based on the Helmholtz free energy and the Gibbs free energy of individual phases, the effective elastic tensor, thermal-expansion tensor, and specific heats of the multi-phase composites are derived by means of the volume average of free-energies of these phases. Particular emphasis is placed on the derivation of new analytical expressions of effective specific heats at constant-strain and constant-stress situations, in which a modified Eshelby's micromechanics theory is developed and the interaction between inclusions is considered. As an illustrative example, the analytical expression of the effective specific heat for a three-phase thermoelastic composite is presented.