Temperature and stress analysis of an elastic circular cylinder in contact with heated rigid stamps (Q5944655)

The author considers a plane strain problem of transient thermoelasticity for a circular cylinder which is in partial contact with two heated rigid stamps, in the case where the contact surface of the cylinder is different from the traction-free surface. By means of finite difference method applied to the time variable and by using Airy's stress function, the thermoelastic field is obtained numerically. The stress singularity coefficient are calculated for some combinations of geometric and thermomechanical parameters, and numerical results are presented in graphs.