The article is concerned with a new nonlocal model based on Eringen’s nonlocal elasticity and generalized thermoelasticity. A study is made of the magneto-thermoelastic waves in an isotropic conducting thermoelastic finite rod subjected to moving heat sources permeated by a primary uniform magnetic field and rotating with a uniform angular velocity. The Laplace transform technique with respect ...

A finite-element model is used to analyze the mechanical behavior of the left ventricle. The ventricle is treated as a heterogeneous, linearly elastic, thickwalled solid of revolution. The inner third of the ventricular wall is assumed to be transversely isotropic with a longitudinal Young's modulus, transverse modulus, and shear modulus of 60 g/cm, 30 g/cm, and 15.5 g/cm, respectively. In the ...

INTRODUCTION Biot’s theory of poroelastic solids [1] describes the behavior of fluids in porous materials and provides the biophysical basis for loadinduced fluid flow in bone. Applying this theory to bone, compression of the matrix causes an instantaneous increase in pore pressure within the matrix; to equilibrate this pore pressure gradient, fluid moves out of the pore spaces of the matrix un...

The general solution of the equations for a homogeneous isotropic microstretch thermo elastic medium with mass diffusion for two dimensional problems is obtained due to normal and tangential forces. The Integral transform technique is used to obtain the components of displacements, microrotation, stress and mass concentration, temperature change and mass concentration. A particular case of inte...

Response of a transversely isotropic 3-D half-space subjected to a surface time-harmonic excitation is presented in analytical form. The derivation of the fundamental solutions expressed in terms of displacements is based on the prefect series of displacement potential functions that have been obtained in the companion paper by the authors. First the governing equations are uncoupled in the cyl...

A first step towards the development of a model for the Scanning Laser Source technique is presented, which entails an analytical formulation for the transient response of an isotropic, homogeneous, linearly elastic half-space submitted to a pulsed laser line source operating in the thermoelastic regime. The formulation takes into account optical penetration into the material and thermal diffus...

In this paper, we model and compute flow-induced mechanical properties of nematic polymer nanocomposites, consisting of transversely isotropic rigid spheroids in an isotropic matrix. Our goal is to fill a gap in the theoretical literature between random and perfectly aligned spheroidal composites (Odegard et al. in Compos. Sci. Technol. 63, 1671–1687, 2003; Gusev et al. in Adv. Eng. Mater. 4(12...