Thermal Stresses in a Nonhomogeneous Thick Plate Under Steady Distribution of Temperature

This paper is concerned with a method for calculating the thermal-stress distribution in a nonhomogeneous medium whose shear modulus and coefficient of thermal expansion are assumed to be functions of z. The solution of the problem is determined by using displacement functions. A solution is then derived for the thermal-stress distribution in a nonhomogeneous, thick elastic plate under steady distribution of the surface temperature. Numerical results are presented.