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NASA NTRS1974

Model for thermal stress resistance of truly elastic materials containing more than one crack

The model was developed upon the physical properties of surface energy and intrinsic modulus of elasticity of a material containing a number of equal sized microcracks which are independent of one another. The effect of these cracks upon the strain energy per unit volume of material necessary to continue simultaneous crack growth as well as the measured physical properties was established, and the thermal stress resistance is developed in terms of this energy. The model is expressed in its final form in terms of the measured physical properties of fracture strength, effective modulus of elasticity, and coefficient of thermal expansion. The model was applied to existent thermal stress data of ceramic materials for which these physical properties had been measured. On the basis of these data it was concluded that the thermal stress resistance of a material may be improved by increasing the fracture strength.

Lineback, L. D.↗
NASA NTRS1987

Thermal stresses of a wind turbine blade made of orthotropic material

This study is to investigate the thermal stress of a wind turbine blade made of wood composite material. First, the governing partial differential equation on heat conduction is stated, then, a finite element procedure using a variational approach is employed for the solution of the governing equation. Thus, the temperature field throughout the blade is determined. Next, based on the temperature field, a finite element procedure using potential energy approach is applied to determine the thermal stress field. A set of results is obtained through the use of a computer, which is considered to be satisfactory.

Fu, Kuan-Chen↗
NASA NTRS1983

Temperature-time distribution and thermal stresses on the RTG fins and shell during water cooling

Radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) packages designed for space missions generally do not require active cooling. However, the heat they generate cannot remain inside of the launch vehicle bay and requires active removal. Therefore, before the Shuttle bay door is closed, the RTG coolant tubes attached to the heat rejection fins must be filled with water, which will circulate and remove most of the heat from the cargo bay. There is concern that charging a system at initial temperature around 200 C with water at 24 C can cause unacceptable thermal stresses in the RTG shell and fins. A computer model is developed to estimate the transient temperature distribution resulting from such charging. The thermal stresses resulting from the temperature gradients do not exceed the elastic deformation limit for the material. Since the simplified mathematical model for thermal stresses tends to overestimate stresses, it is concluded that the RTG can be cooled by introducing water at 24 C to the initially hot fin coolant tubes while the RTG is in the Shuttle cargo bay.

Turner, R. H.↗
NASA NTRS1973

Analysis of thermal stresses and metal movement during welding

The research is reported concerning the development of a system of mathematical solutions and computer programs for one- and two-dimensional analyses for thermal stresses. Reports presented include: the investigation of thermal stress and buckling of tantalum and columbium sheet; and analysis of two dimensional thermal strains and metal movement during welding.

Muraki, T.↗
NASA NTRS1999

Investigation of Thermal Stress Convection in Nonisothermal Gases under Microgravity Conditions

The project has sought to ascertain the veracity of the Burnett relations, as applied to slow moving, highly nonisothermal gases, by comparison of convection and stress predictions with those generated by the DSMC method. The Burnett equations were found to provide reasonable descriptions of the pressure distribution and normal stress in stationary gases with a 1-D temperature gradient. Continuum/Burnett predictions of thermal stress convection in 2-D heated enclosures, however, are not quantitatively supported by DSMC results. For such situations, it appears that thermal creep flows, generated at the boundaries of the enclosure, will be significantly larger than the flows resulting from thermal stress in the gas.

Mackowski, Daniel W.↗
NASA NTRS1987

Effect of element size on the solution accuracies of finite-element heat transfer and thermal stress analyses of space shuttle orbiter

The effect of element size on the solution accuracies of finite-element heat transfer and thermal stress analyses of space shuttle orbiter was investigated. Several structural performance and resizing (SPAR) thermal models and NASA structural analysis (NASTRAN) structural models were set up for the orbiter wing midspan bay 3. The thermal model was found to be the one that determines the limit of finite-element fineness because of the limitation of computational core space required for the radiation view factor calculations. The thermal stresses were found to be extremely sensitive to a slight variation of structural temperature distributions. The minimum degree of element fineness required for the thermal model to yield reasonably accurate solutions was established. The radiation view factor computation time was found to be insignificant compared with the total computer time required for the SPAR transient heat transfer analysis.

Ko, William L.↗
NASA NTRS1991

Thermal stress tectonics on the satellites of Saturn and Uranus

Thermal stress histories of the Saturnian and Uranian satellites are investigated. To this end, the thermal evolution of an icy satellite subjected to accretional and radiogenic heating, thermal conduction, and solid-state convection is modeled, and changes in the internal stress that occur during satellite evolution are examined. Results show that internal temperature changes that occur during normal evolution of many of the satellites of Saturn and Uranus can be expected to generate large extensional stresses in the satellites' outer regions. These stresses arise from three sources: (1) radiogenic warming, causing thermal expansion of materials in the satellite's deep interior; (2) radiogenic warming in larger satellites that can induce a phase transition from ice II to ice I and to produce a volume increase in the deep interior; and (3) accretional heating depositing heat in the satellite'e outer regions.

Hillier, John↗
NASA NTRS1965

Thermal stress in aviation.

Personnel comfort and protection from thermal stress, discussing clothing, environmental temperature, metabolic heat production, solar radiation, etc

VENTILATION↗
NASA NTRS1975

A method for the dynamic and thermal stress analysis of space shuttle surface insulation

The thermal protection system of the space shuttle consists of thousands of separate insulation tiles bonded to the orbiter's surface through a soft strain-isolation layer. The individual tiles are relatively thick and possess nonuniform properties. Therefore, each is idealized by finite-element assemblages containing up to 2500 degrees of freedom. Since the tiles affixed to a given structural panel will, in general, interact with one another, application of the standard direct-stiffness method would require equation systems involving excessive numbers of unknowns. This paper presents a method which overcomes this problem through an efficient iterative procedure which requires treatment of only a single tile at any given time. Results of associated static, dynamic, and thermal stress analyses and sufficient conditions for convergence of the iterative solution method are given.

Ojalvo, I. U.↗
NASA NTRS1987

Nonlinear/linear unified thermal stress formulations - Transfinite element approach

A new unified computational approach for applicability to nonlinear/linear thermal-structural problems is presented. Basic concepts of the approach including applicability to nonlinear and linear thermal structural mechanics are first described via general formulations. Therein, the approach is demonstrated for thermal stress and thermal-structural dynamic applications. The proposed transfinite element approach focuses on providing a viable hybrid computational methodology by combining the modeling versatility of contemporary finite element schemes in conjunction with transform techniques and the classical Bubnov-Galerkin schemes. Comparative samples of numerical test cases highlight the capabilities of the proposed concepts.

Tamma, Kumar K.↗
NASA NTRS1991

Thermal stresses and deflections of cross-ply laminated plates using refined plate theories

Exact analytical solutions of refined plate theories are developed to study the thermal stresses and deflections of cross-ply rectangular plates. The state-space approach in conjunction with the Levy method is used to solve exactly the governing equations of the theories under various boundary conditions. Numerical results of the higher-order theory of Reddy for thermal stresses and deflections are compared with those obtained using the classical and first-order plate theories.

Khdeir, A. A.↗