A general plane-stress solution in cylindrical coordinates for a piezothermoelastic plate (Q5939396)

This work treats a plate made of a linear piezothermoelastic material as a plane stress problem in cylindrical coordinates. The material has a hexagonal symmetry of class 6mm. The stress vector acting on an arbitrary plane element which is perpendicular to the \(z\)-axis lying along the thickness of the plate is assumed to vanish, so that the resulting state of stress is a plane stress. The resulting field equations are such that the temperature field is solely specified by classical Fourier's equation. By introducing appropriate potential functions, the authors obtain rather simple set of equations with sources depending on a given temperature distribution to determine displacements, stresses and electric field vectors in the plate depending on three coordinates under various boundary conditions. Some examples associated with circular plates subjected to an axisymmetric heating on the upper face and the zero temperature on the lower face are solved, and results are depicted in graphs.