Accretion-Ablation Mechanics

TL;DR

This paper develops a geometric nonlinear theory for bodies undergoing simultaneous accretion and ablation, analyzing large deformations and stresses with a novel time-dependent configuration framework.

Contribution

It introduces a new geometric framework for accretion-ablation mechanics, including a dynamic reference configuration and detailed kinematic and constitutive laws.

Findings

Analyzed a thick hollow cylinder under finite extension with boundary accretion and ablation.

Computed deformation and stress states during the process.

Determined residual stress and stretch after accretion-ablation.

Abstract

In this paper we formulate a geometric nonlinear theory of the mechanics of accreting-ablating bodies. This is a generalization of the theory of accretion mechanics of Sozio and Yavari (2019). More specifically, we are interested in large deformation analysis of bodies that undergo a continuous and simultaneous accretion and ablation on their boundaries while under external loads. In this formulation the natural configuration of an accreting-ablating body is a time-dependent Riemannian 3-manifold with a metric that is an unknown a priori and is determined after solving the accretion-ablation initial-boundary-value problem. In addition to the time of attachment map, we introduce a time of detachment map that along with the time of attachment map, and the accretion and ablation velocities describes the time-dependent reference configuration of the body. The kinematics, material manifold, material metric, constitutive equations, and the balance laws are discussed in detail. As a concrete example and application of the geometric theory, we analyze a thick hollow circular cylinder made of an arbitrary incompressible isotropic material that is under a finite time-dependent extension while undergoing continuous ablation on its inner cylinder boundary and accretion on its outer cylinder boundary. The state of deformation and stress during the accretion-ablation process, and the residual stretch and stress after the completion of the accretion-ablation process are computed.