Asymptotic Expansion of Temperature Close to a Singularity of a Plate英文文献资料.docVIP

World Journal of Mechanics, 2011, 1, 109-114 doi:10.4236/wjm.2011.13015 Published Online June 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wjm) Asymptotic Expansion of Temperature Close to a Singularity of a Plate Isabelle Titeux Laboratoire de Génie Civil, Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, Moulin de la Housse, Reims, France E-mail: isabelle.titeux@univ-reims.fr Received March 22, 2011; revised April 21, 2011; accepted May 5, 2011 Abstract The thermal conduction in a thin laminated plate is considered here. The lateral surface of the plate is not regular. Consequently, the boundary of the middle plane admits a geometrical singularity. Close to the origin, the lateral edge forms an angle. We shall prove that the classical bidimensional problem associated with the thin plate problem is not valid. In this paper, using the boundary layer theory, we describe the local behavior of the plate, close to the perturbation. Keywords: Thin Plate, Boundary Layers, Singularities, Asymptotic Expansion 1. Introduction magnitude; the assumption of small thickness with re- spect to the other directions is no more valid. Close to the edge, the body must be considered like a three- dimensional domain, with thickness and distance to the edge of the same order. A thin plate is a three dimensional body, a dimension of which (the thickness) is smaller than the other dimen- sions. Usually, under the assumption of small thickness with respect to the characteristic length of the middle plane, instead of a three-dimensional description, a bi-dimensional one is used. The problem is then posed over the middle plane of the plate. In this way, the nu- merical methods are less expensive in time and in mem- ory. In this paper, we deal with the modelling of the ther- mal behavior of a thin laminated plate. The thermal con- ductivity can be considered as an exemplary problem similar to the elasticity problem. Instea