Thermal Effects in Anisotropic Porous Elastic Rods

This research is concerned with the thermoelastic deformation of a porous anisotropic right cylinder subjected to a thermal field independent of the axial coordinate. The case of a material with a plane of elastic symmetry which contains the axis of cylinder is considered. The solution of the problem is expressed in terms of solutions of some generalized plane strain problems. It is shown that the temperature field produces extension, torsion, and a plane strain. For this kind of anisotropy, an infinitesimal twist produces a variation of volume fraction field. The method is used to study the deformation of an inhomogeneous circular cylinder.