On the thermal stresses in anisotropic porous cylinders

In this paper we study the deformation of right porous cylinders subjected to a prescribed thermal field. We assume that the cylinder is filled by an inhomogeneous anisotropic porous material. In the first part of the paper we study the problem of extension-bending-torsion, when the thermal field is independent of the axial coordinate and then we study the problem of extension-bending-torsion-flexure when the thermal field is considered linear in the axial coordinate. The considered problems are reduced to some generalized plane strain problems in the cross-section of the cylinder. Our analysis shows how the considered thermal fields influence the deformation of the porous cylinders.