Revised analysis of the thermal stresses in a shallow spherical shell with a foreign inclusion (Q677976)

We present a revised analysis of the thermally stressed state in the contact zone of a shell. First, from the theory of shells we determine the thermally stressed state of a shell containing a round inclusion. On the basis of a parametric analysis of this solution we identify a contact zone of the shell that can be replaced by an annular plate without any significant distortion of the contact stresses. Then, using the revised theory of plates, which makes it possible to determine all the components of the stress tensor, we determine the stressed state of a circular plate with a foreign inclusion; the boundary conditions for this problem are formulated by applying the solution obtained from shell theory.