In this paper, we study the well-posedness and asymptotic behaviour of solutions to a laminated beam in thermoelasticity of type III. We first give the well-posedness of the system by using the semigroup method. Then, we show that the system is exponentially stable under the assumption of equal wave speeds. Furthermore, it is proved that the system is lack of exponential stability for case of n...

Considering importance of stress concentration around holes and notches of arbitrary shape in a given elastic medium for modern engineering, a two dimensional model for a thermoelastic problem in an hexagon region with an elliptic hole is established. The expressions for the temperature distribution and thermal stresses which have their importance in nuclear engineering are obtained for the mod...

The theory of generalized thermoelastic diffusion, based on the theory of Lord and Shulman, is used to study the thermoelastic-diffusion interactions in an infinitely long solid cylinder subjected to a thermal shock on its surface which is in contact with a permeating substance. By means of the Laplace transform and numerical Laplace inversion the problem is solved. Numerical results predict fi...

Rayleigh waves in a half-space exhibiting microplar transversely isotropic generalized thermoelastic properties based on the Lord-Shulman (L-S), Green and Lindsay (G-L) and Coupled thermoelasticty (C-T) theories are discussed. The phase velocity and attenuation coefficient in the previous three different theories have been obtained. A comparison is carried out of the phase velocity, attenuation...

A new meshless method for solving stationary thermoelastic boundary value problems is proposed in the present paper. The moving least square (MLS) method is used for the approximation of physical quantities in the local boundary integral equations (LBIE). In stationary thermoelasticity, the temperature and displacement fields are uncoupled. In the first step, the temperature field, described by...

We determine the L p-L q-estimate of the linear equations of thermoelasticity for rhom-bic media in R 2. For this purpose we will transform the equations to an evolution equation showing that this equation has a unique solution with the help of the semigroup theory. In order to obtain the L p-L q-estimate, we will first apply the Fourier transformation to the evolution equation, thus determinin...

1. Introduction. In the linear range a general theory of thermoelasticity based on irreversible thermodynamics was developed and discussed extensively in some earlier work ([3], [4], [9]). It was assumed that the elastic solid is initially in a stress-free equilibrium state at uniform temperature. Completely linearized perturbations in the vicinity of this equilibrium state are then analyzed as...

It is shown that the canonical balance of momentum of continuum mechanics can be formulated in a general way, but not independently of the usual balance of linear momentum, even in the absence of specified constitutive equations. A parallel construct can be made for the accompanying time-like canonical energy equation. On specifying the energy, previous particular cases can be deduced including...

One of the obstacles to the industrial use of metal matrix composite materials is the damage they rapidly undergo when they are subjected to cyclic thermal loadings; local thermal stresses of high level can develop, sometimes nearby or over the elastic limit, due to the mismatch of elastic and thermal coefficients between the fibers and the matrix. For the same reasons, early cracks can appear ...