Residual Stress and Opening-Mode Fracture Analysis of Multilayered Structures Subjected to Thermal Loading
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 145, Issue 3
Abstract
Temperature change after formation commonly results in thermal residual stress in multilayered structures due to the different thermal and mechanical properties of each layer. In this paper, a three-dimensional (3D) elastic model is developed to study the residual stress and opening-mode fractures (OMFs) in a multilayered structure consisting of arbitrary number of layers under temperature change. The general solution of displacement field in the multilayered structure is derived by solving the elastic boundary value problem. In order to verify the proposed model, the elastic field in the advanced polymeric solar reflectors that consist of four layers is solved by applying the present model and compared with the finite-element (FE) simulation. In addition, parametric studies are conducted to investigate the effect of the thickness ratio between each layer on the accuracy of the developed model. Based on the obtained elastic field, the fracture energy release rate (ERR) in the surface layer of the advanced polymeric reflector is obtained and used to study the fracture initiation, infilling, and saturation successfully.
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Acknowledgments
This study was supported by the US Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC36-08-GO28308 with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory through the DOE SETP program and the US National Science Foundation under award No. 1738802 with the Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems through NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center Program. The US Government retains, and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this study, or allow others to do so, for US Government purposes.
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Received: Apr 9, 2018
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