TRANSIENT THERMAL-STRESS ANALYSIS OF THICK-WALLED CYLINDERS

The study of thermal stresses on pressure vessels has a great signific ance from the theoretical and practical point of view due to their imp ortance in many applications. This paper presents a complete analysis of thermal stresses within a thick-walled cylinder under dynamic inter nal temperature gradient. A complete evaluation of temperature and str ess distributions, in a non-steady state, is obtained using a numerica l model. In this model the temperature of the inside surface of the th ick-walled cylinder is considered to change according to certain bound ary conditions. The harmonic and periodic loading conditions are also studied.