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Thermal buckling of a thin uniform circular disk: a comparison of predictions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2016

K. A. Seffen
K. A. Seffen*
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
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Abstract

The conditions for thermally-induced buckling of an unloaded thin, circular disk are compared from two well-known but unconnected studies: an approximate solution by Freund for a constant thickness disk, which must neglect the free edge condition, and an exact solution by Mansfield but only for a disk whose thickness tapers to zero in a particular manner. It is shown that buckling occurs at slightly higher values compared to a finite element analysis of a constant thickness disk but that the case of variable thickness seems to offer a closer result, which suggests that it better models the boundary layer behaviour near the free edge.

Type
Technical Note
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 110 , Issue 1112 , October 2006 , pp. 691 - 693
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2006 

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