This paper investigates the functionally graded coating bonded to an elastic strip with a crack under thermal- mechanical loading. Considering some new boundary conditions, it is assumed that the temperature drop across the crack surface is the result of the thermal conductivity index which controls heat conduction through the crack region. By the Fourier transforms, the thermal-elastic mixed boundary value problems are reduced to a system of singular integral equations which can be approximately solved by applying the Chebyshev polynomials. The numerical computation methods for the temperature, the displacement field and the thermal stress intensity factors (TSIFs) are presented. The normal temperature distributions (NTD) with different parameters along the crack surface are analyzed by numerical examples. The influence of the crack position and the thermal-elastic non- homogeneous parameters on the TSIFs of modes I and 11 at the crack tip is presented. Results show that the variation of the thickness of the graded coating has a significant effect on the temperature jump across the crack surfaces when keeping the thickness of the substrate constant, and the thickness of functionally graded material (FGM) coating has a significant effect on the crack in the substrate. The results can be expected to be used for the purpose of gaining better understanding of the thermal-mechanical behavior of graded coatings.
In this paper,two kinds of contact problems in 2-D dodecagonal quasicrystals were discussed using the complex variable function method:one is the finite frictional contact problem,the other is the adhesive contact problem.The analytic expressions of contact stresses in the phonon and phason fields were obtained for a flat rigid punch,which showed that:(1) for the finite frictional contact problem,the contact stress exhibited power-type singularities at the edge of the contact zone;(2) for the adhesive contact problem,the contact stress exhibited oscillatory singularities at the edge of the contact zone.The distribution regulation of contact stress under punch was illustrated;and the low friction property of quasicrystals was verified graphically.