Thermal Stresses in a Cylindrical Shell under a Moving Hot Spot

Abstract

In this paper, the temperature distribution and the associated thermal stresses caused in a cylindrical shell subjected to a hot spot moving along a circumference with a constant speed, taking into consideration the cooling effect of the surrounding media and taking no such assumption as "quasi-stationary" or "shallow", are obtained by the general thermoelastic theory of a cylindrical shell introduced by the present author applying the Fourier transforms and the convolution theorem.