Finite volume method for thermo-elasto-plastic stress analysis (Q1912196)

A numerical method for prediction of stresses and displacements in thermo-elasto-plastic material is presented. The method is based on the direct solution of the governing equations for thermal energy and momentum balance, expressed in terms of temperature and displacements (as dependent variables) via corresponding constitutive relations, and discretized by the finite volume technique. As a result, the unsteady fields of temperature, displacements and stresses, as well as residual stresses in a solid body subjected to a non-uniform temperature and/or external loads are obtained. The method has been applied to a number of test cases, and the results are compared with analytical solutions.