Physics · Thermal Stresses

A brass bar is enclosed inside a steel tube and rigidly fixed at both ends. If the coefficient of thermal expansion of brass is greater than that of steel (αbr > αst), when the temperature of the assembly is increased, the nature of stresses induced in the steel tube and brass bar respectively are:

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Tensile in steel tube and compressive in brass bar

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