Instability of a Longitudinal Movement along the Cylindrical Surface for a Thermoelastic Web Simulated by Stretched and Heated String

On the basis of classical methods for mathematical physics and mechanics, the stability problem of a thermoelastic web moving at a constant speed without friction along a cylindrical surface is investigated. The web is modeled by a stretched and heated string. At a sufficiently high speed and heating of a string, a loss ofmotion stability and the stringmovement in a direction normal to the cylindrical surface occur. To study the instability, a static method based on the consideration of stationary nontrivial modes of stability loss, that is, on the study of the problem for bifurcation of solutions (eigenvalue problem) for the corresponding differential equations is used. The case of the web motion along the circular cylinder is separately considered and an expression for the critical velocity leading to the instability is found.