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In this work, an elegant method is proposed to derive the thermoelastic field induced by thermomechanical loadings in a decagonal quasicrystalline composite composed of an infinite matrix reinforced by an elliptical inclusion. The thermomechanical loadings include a uniform temperature change, remote uniform in-plane heat fluxes and remote uniform in-plane stresses. The corresponding boundary value problem is ultimately reduced to the solution of two independent sets of four coupled linear algebraic equations, each of which involves four complex constants characterizing the internal stress field. The solution demonstrates that a uniform temperature change and remote uniform stresses will induce an internal uniform stress field, and that uniform heat fluxes will result in a linearly distributed internal stress field within the elliptical inclusion. The induced uniform rigid body rotation within the inclusion is given explicitly.
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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( No. 11272121), Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, China (No. 12ZZ058) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Wang, X., Schiavone, P. Decagonal quasicrystalline elliptical inclusions under thermomechanical loading. Acta Mech. Solida Sin. 27, 518–530 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0894-9166(14)60060-4
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