A common threat to thick-walled vessels and pipes is thermal shock from operational steady state or transient thermoelastic stresses. As such, boundary conditions must be known or determined in order to reveal the underlying thermal state. For direct problems where all boundary conditions (temperature or flux) are known, the procedure is relatively straightforward and mathematically tractable as shown by many studies. Although more practical from a measurement standpoint, the inverse problem where the boundary conditions must be determined from remotely determined temperature and/or flux data is ill-posed and inherently sensitive to errors in the data. As a result, the inverse route is rarely used to determine thermal stresses. Moreover, most analytical solutions to the inverse problem rely on a host of assumptions that usually restrict their utility to time frames before the thermal wave reaches the natural boundaries of the structure. To help offset these limitations and at the same time solve for the useful case of a thick-walled cylinder exposed to thermal loading on the internal surface, the inverse problem was solved using a least-squares determination of polynomial coefficients based on a generalized direct solution to the heat equation. Once the inverse problem was solved in this fashion and the unknown boundary condition on the internal surface determined, the resulting polynomial was used with the generalized direct solution to determine the internal temperature and stress distributions as a function of time and radial position. For a thick-walled cylinder under an internal transient with external convection, excellent agreement was seen with known temperature histories. Given the versatility of the polynomial solutions advocated, the method appears well suited for many thermal scenarios provided the analysis is restricted to the time interval used to determine the polynomial and the thermophysical properties that do not vary with temperature.
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November 2006
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Thermoelastic Stresses in Thick-Walled Vessels Under Thermal Transients via the Inverse Route
A. E. Segall
A. E. Segall
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e-mail: aesegall@psu.edu
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A. E. Segall
Member ASME
Engineering Science and Mechanics,
The Pennsylvania State University
, 212 EES Building, University Park, PA 16803e-mail: aesegall@psu.edu
J. Pressure Vessel Technol. Nov 2006, 128(4): 599-604 (6 pages)
Published Online: January 19, 2006
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July 24, 2005
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January 19, 2006
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Segall, A. E. (January 19, 2006). "Thermoelastic Stresses in Thick-Walled Vessels Under Thermal Transients via the Inverse Route." ASME. J. Pressure Vessel Technol. November 2006; 128(4): 599–604. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2349573
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