Internal stress associated with an oriented microstructure of defects are taken into ac count in the thermoelastic balance of martensitic phase transition. From this analysis a macros copic flow rule is determined for the TWME by using a phenomenological approach based on a yield criterion derived from Gibb's free energy expression. Experiments perfor med on a Cu-Zn-A1 polycrystalline alloy tra...

Abstract The reflection and refraction due to generalized thermoelastic incident Pand SVwaves at a plane interface between two dissimilar half spaces of visco-thermoelasitic materials have been investigated. Magnitude of coefficient ratios for both the cases of Pand SVwaves have been found out. Several graphs have been drawn to study the nature of variation of the amplitude ratios when the angl...

We study dispersive mixed-order systems of pseudodifferential operators in the setting of Lp-Sobolev spaces. Under the weak condition of quasihyperbolicity, these operators generate a semigroup in the space of tempered distributions. However, if the basic space is a tuple of Lp-Sobolev spaces, a strongly continuous semigroup is in many cases only generated if p = 2 or n = 1. The results are app...

The governing equations of an initially stressed, rotating and transversely isotropic thermoelastic solid permeated with magnetic field are solved for surface wave solutions. The appropriate particular solutions in the half-space satisfy the required boundary conditions at a thermally insulated stress free surface. A velocity equation is obtained for wave speed of thermo-elastic Rayleigh wave. ...

We consider the Cauchy problem for a coupled system generalizing the thermoelastic plate equations. First we prove resolvent estimates for the stationary operator and conclude the analyticity of the associated semigroup in Lp-spaces, 1 < p < ∞, for certain values of the parameters of the system; here the Newton polygon method is used. Then we prove decay rates of the Lq(Rn)-norms of solutions, ...

We study a model for the semiconductor problem that consists of a system of dynamic thermoelasticity equations of displacement and semiconductor equations. This problem arises from the observation that semiconductor devices are too often cracked and broken because of the thermal stresses. Since the heat source generated by Joule heating is quadratic in the gradient of the electrical potential, ...

An analysis of the propogation of thermoelastic waves in a homogeneous, anisotropic, thermally conducting plate has been presented in the context of the generalized Lord-Shulman theory of thermoelasticity. Three different methods are used in this analysis: two of them are exact and the third is a semianalytic finite element method (SAFE). In our exact analysis, two different approaches are used...

The proteoglycan and collagen constituents of cartilage serve distinct mechanical roles. Changes to the mechanical loading conditions during cartilage growth lead to changes in the concentrations of these molecules and, consequently, the mechanical properties. The main aim of this paper is to present a theory that can describe the mechanical aspects of cartilage growth. The model for cartilage ...