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Heat Expansion of an Aluminium Ring with hole

I have a question of how aluminium will behave when heated ( I made a drawing below to explain the question)

We have a ring of aluminium and a hole (green in drawing), if we heat the ring it will expand.

The outer diameter will expand in the direction of the arrows, the inner diameter will also expand outwards. But what about the hole? Will the expansion of the hole (green) ever meet the expanding inner diameter(red)?

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MotorMan
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