ABLATION AND THERMAL EFFECTS IN A VISCOELASTIC CYLINDER

This paper considers the problem of a hollow viscoelastic cylinder in plane strain whose outer boundary is confined in an elastic casing and whose inner boundary is subject to a prescribed pressure, set for convenience equal to zero. The material is thermorheologically simple and is assumed to be in a temperature field which is rotationally symmetric but otherwise arbitrary. The problems is reduced to a system of Volterra-type integral equations whose solution is represented in a Neumann expansion. © 1969 Springer-Verlag.