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The Extended Ritz Method Applied to Transient, Coupled Thermoelastic Boundary-Value Problems

Nickell, Robert E.; Sackman, Jerome L.

UCB/SESM-1967/03, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1967-02, 94 pages (500/C23/67/03)

An extension of the Ritz method for obtaining approximate solutions to initial boundary value problems in the linear theory of coupled thermoelasticity is developed and applied to problems of (1) rapid heating of a half-space through a thermally conducting boundary layer, and (2) gradual heating of the boundary surface of a half-space.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-67-03.pdf (7 MB)