Effect of uniform heat flux on stress distribution around a triangular hole in anisotropic infinite plates

The presence of a hole in an anisotropic plate under uniform heat flux causes thermal stress around the hole. In this study, on the basis of two-dimensional thermoelastic theory and using Lekhnitskii’s complex variable technique, the stress analysis of an anisotropic infinite plate with a circular hole under a uniform heat flux is developed to the plate containing a triangular hole. For this purpose, an infinite plate containing a triangular hole is mapped to the outside of a unit circle using a conformal mapping function. Stress and displacement distributions around the triangular holes in an anisotropic infinite plate are investigated in thermal steady-state condition. The plate is under uniform heat flux at infinity and Neumann boundary conditions and thermal-insulated condition on the hole boundary are considered. The rotation angle of the hole, fiber angle, the angle of heat flux, bluntness, and the aspect ratio of hole size are investigated in the present study. The accuracy of the analytical results is also confirmed by finite element analysis.