Thermal Elastic Constitutive Equation of Orthotropic Materials
In the finite deformation range, the numbers of orthotropic 2n order elastic constants are studied on the basis of tensor function and of its representation theorem. On the basis of elastic constant research, the elastic orthotropic constitutive equation is derived by using the tensor method. Based on orthotropic elastic constitutive equations an in-depth study on the constitutive theory of orthotropic nonlinear thermal elasticity is carried out, and by considering the deformation produced by the coupling of temperature and load, nonlinear orthotropic thermoelastic constitutive equation is further derived with representation of the tensor invariant and scalar invariant. The constitutive equations could be used very convenient to the application in reality.