HAMILTONIAN APPROACH TO ANALYTICAL THERMAL STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS-PART 1: THERMAL INTENSITY FACTOR

An analytic method to determine the thermal intensity factors of finite domains in two-dimensional heat conduction in the vicinity of a crack is introduced. The method first separates the variables of the heat conduction equations in polar coordinates using the Hamiltonian formalism and finds the symplectic eigenfunctions analytically. The coefficients of the symplectic series are determined from the boundary conditions. The thermal intensity factor is given by the first coefficient of the antisymmetric part of the series and no post-processing is required.