Thermal-mechanical coupling analysis of functionally graded cylindrical shells

Abstract Functionally graded materials is a new material for thermal protection in the aerospace field. It is extremely important to study the temperature and stress changes in the thermal environment to ensure the normal operation of the spacecraft and the safety of crews. In this paper, ABAQUS is used to perform sequential thermal coupling and full thermal coupling analysis. The temperature variation and mechanical properties of functionally graded cylindrical shells in thermal environment under temperature and force field and temperature field interacts with force field are studied. Based on the first law of thermoelasticity and thermodynamics, the three-dimensional stress and energy equations of functionally graded cylindrical shells in thermal environment are derived. The example shows that the temperature variation law and mechanical characteristics of the two types of thermo-mechanical coupling analysis are almost the same. The temperature value results of the sequential thermal-mechanical coupling analysis are the same as the results of the full thermal coupling, but the stress value results are lower than the results of the full thermal coupling.