Abstract:In order to further study the effect of thermal stress for further research on dinosaur fossils with inner crack, six kinds of temperature difference in 10 ℃,20℃,30℃,40℃,50℃ and 60℃ have been simulated. The mechanism of effect on dinosaur fossils between surface temperature and the inner temperature has been revealed by using ABAQUS numerical simulation software. As showed by the experimental results, under the action of different temperature difference, the distribution of thermal stress is mainly concentrated in the upper right corner of dinosaur fossils crack, while there is no obvious thermal stress in the lower right corner. The distribution of thermal stress is uneven, which is easy to induce the crack of dinosaur fossil and accelerate the weathering speed. The thermal stress increases approximately linearly with the increase of temperature difference. Under the condition of same temperature difference and different axial compression, the growth rate of thermal stress value has the trend of declining.The largest growth rate is 93.54%, which is formed in the temperature of 10 ℃ and axial compression changing from 0.04MPa to 0.12MPa. The minimum growth rate is 17.46%, which is formed in the temperature of 60 ℃ and axial compression changing from 0.12MPa to 0.20MPa. Accompanying with the increase of temperature difference, cracking angle will decrease. When the temperature difference is 40 ℃, the maximum cracking angle is 51.5. When the temperature difference continues to increase, the cracking angle shows a decreasing trend. When the temperature difference grows, the limit load of dinosaur fossil will decrease. Among them, when the temperature difference is 10 ℃, the maximum limit load is 2.5MPa. When the temperature difference is 60 ℃, the minimum limit load is 1.5MPa.