- Author
-
Cooper, L. Y.
- Title
- Response of Long, Unconstrained, Thin-Walled Circular Cylinders to Lateral Time-Dependent Thermal Irradiation.
- Coporate
- Bell Telephone Labs., Inc., Whippany, NJ
- Journal
-
Journal of Applied Mechanics,
Vol. 41,
No. 2,
1-6,
1974
- Report
-
ASME 73-WA/APM-19,
- Book or Conf
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Winter Annual Meeting. November 11-15, 1973,
Detroit, MI,
1974
- Keywords
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irradiation
|
temperature
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heating
|
time
|
equations
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nuclear weapons
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circular cylinders
- Identifiers
- thermal flux; thermal pulse heating
- Abstract
- This work investigates the response of initially uniform temperature, long, unconstrained, thin-walled, circular cylinders to a constant and uniform lateral thermal flux. The results are used to study the response of such cylinders to a time-varying thermal radiation delivery. The particular response variables studied are those of temperature, axial elongation, lateral deflection, and stress. Time histories of these are obtained in a dimensionless form. For the case of an energy delivery which is characteristic of a nuclear weapon burst, these responses are computed and presented for the full range of dimensionless parameter, this being the ration of a characteristic time of thermal flux delivery to a natural time of heat diffusion around a cylinder of interest.