Introduction to Coupled Thermo-Mechanical Modeling
This tutorial provides an introduction to setting up models that combine models of heat transfer and mechanical deformation, including contact. This builds on the material in the Introduction to Heat Conduction, Introduction to Tensor Mechanics, and Introduction to Contact tutorials, the completion of which is recommended prior to this tutorial.
There are three parts to this tutorial, which build in complexity.
Basic thermal/mechanical coupling
This is a basic problem that solves a coupled system of equations for the thermal and mechanical response of a single block. This builds on the single-block problems in the Introduction to Heat Conduction and Introduction to Tensor Mechanics tutorials.
Thermal/mechanical contact
This problem shows how a coupled thermal/mechanical simulation on two blocks that interact through both thermal and mechanical contact is defined.
More advanced thermal/mechanical contact
This problem adds complexity to the previous problem by adding an additional body with contact interactions.