Thermoelasticity problem with FEM in MATLAB

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The discussion focuses on a user seeking assistance with a thermoelasticity problem involving temperature and stress distribution in a cylinder under specific conditions. The user has implemented a MATLAB code using linear elements but encounters issues at the boundaries, described as "shock." Respondents emphasize the need for a more detailed explanation, including a clear problem description, boundary conditions, and a well-commented code. They request visual aids and specifics about the results to provide effective help. Clarity and thoroughness in the user's inquiry are essential for receiving constructive feedback.
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I want to find distribution of temperature, and stress in cylinder with inner and outer temperature and pressure.
Hello I want to find distribution of temperature, and stress in cylinder with inner and outer temperature and pressure , I used linear elements with 3 nodes and wrote matlab code, moreover I want to solve that coupled but I have problem in first and last point because those have something like shock. please help me.

My Matlab code
 
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Your description is very very short and your code hardly has any comments. This means we would need to do a lot of work to understand your problem. If you want help you need to explain a lot more about what you are actually trying to do. Please:

- Provide a drawing with the problem you are trying to solve with a cylinder and all boundary conditions, initial conditions, material assumptions etc etc, all there is to know about your problem
- Please provide a description of the finite element model you are trying to solve, where you apply what boundary conditions (yes, again!) etc.
- Please clean up your code and add in comments where you do what.
- Please describe exactly what you see in your results that doesn't seem to be right and why you think that. What do you expect? 'something like a shock' is not nearly good enough...

In other words, please make it as easy as possible for us to help you.
 
I ran your code and the results were a couple of plots without definition of the axis and no legend. Please don't make me guess and fix that as well.
 
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