4. Modelling for Thermoelastic

The physics of thermoelastic involves both thermal and structural phenomena that require to be handled together. Consequently, thermoelastic analysis has to be considered as an integral process including both related disciplines with close interaction of the models. This interaction imposes an important and often overlooked constraint: Making decisions about the importance of a temperature field with only the knowledge of a temperature field is in general not possible and always requires the computation of the structural thermoelastic response.