OOF2: The Manual

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Isotropic thermal expansion makes an additive contribution of

to the Stress, where $C_{ijkl}$ is the Material's elastic modulus, and $T$ is the local Temperature Field.

${\alpha }_{kl}$ is the thermal expansion coefficient, which is a symmetric second rank tensor whose diagonal elements, ${\alpha }_{ii}$, are equal to the parameter alpha, and whose off-diagonal elements are 0.

$T_0$ is equal to the parameter T0. It is the temperature at which the thermal strain vanishes.

See Also

Section 2.3.1