Thermally Induced Stress Waves in a Laminated Composite.

Abstract

A solution is presented for the response of a periodically laminated elastic half plane subjected to rapid internal heating. The assumed temperature distribution has been used in previous investigations of electromagnetic absorption problems where thermal diffusion may be neglected. The laminations are perpendicular to the free surface of the half plane, and the incident flux is absorbed in each layer according to an exponential decay with depth. Since heat conduction is neglected on this time scale, the temperature distribution is discontinuous at the lamination interfaces. A microstructured continuum theory provides the dispersive model, and a solution is obtained for the composite stress in the far field. Limiting forms of the solution are included for the cases when the radiation is absorbed in the alternate layers only or when dispersion can be neglected. Several numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effect of dispersion. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 15, 1970
Accession Number
AD0715896

Entities

People

  • Charles Sve

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Composite Materials
  • Diffusion
  • Dispersions
  • Far Field
  • Lepidoptera
  • Radiation
  • Stress Waves
  • Stresses
  • Thermal Diffusion
  • Waves

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.