Equations governing thermoelastic loss in vibrating thin plates are derived, generalizing Zener’s theory of thermoelastic loss in beams. The mechanism for the loss of mechanical energy is thermal diffusion caused by inhomogeneous deformation, flexure in thin plates. It is shown that a critical plate thickness, h∗, exists which separates two distinct types of response, which may be called therma...

We investigate three classes of constraints in a thermoelastic body: (i) a deformationtemperature constraint, (ii) a deformation-entropy constraint, and (iii) a deformationenergy constraint. These constraints are obtained as limits of unconstrained thermoelastic materials and we show that constraints (ii) and (iii) are equivalent. By using a limiting procedure, we show that for the constraint (...

Time-resolved photoacoustic spectroscopy has been used to characterize post mortem arterial tissue for the purpose of discriminating between normal and atheromatous areas of tissue. Ultrasonic thermoelastic waves were generated in post mortem human aorta by the absorption of nanosecond laser pulses at 436, 461 and 532 nm produced by a frequency doubled Q-switched Nd:YAG laser in conjunction wit...

-A linear perturbation method is used to examine the stability of a unidirectional solidification problem in which a liquid, initially at the melting temperature, becomes solidified by heat transfer across a pressure-dependent thermal contact resistance to a plane mold. The contact pressure will be influenced by thermal distortion in response to the instantaneous temperature field in the solidi...

We investigate the well-posedness, the exponential stability, or the lack thereof, of thermoelastic systems in materials where, in contrast to classical thermoelastic models for Kirchhoff type plates, two temperatures are involved, related by an elliptic equation. The arising initial boundary value problems for different boundary conditions deal with systems of partial differential equations in...

We show herein the uniform stability of a thermoelastic plate model with no added dissipative mechanism on the boundary (uniform stability of a thermoelastic plate with added boundary dissipation was shown in [J. LAGNESE, Boundary Stabilization of Twin Plates, SIAM Stud. Appl. Math. 10, SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 1989], as was that of the analytic case—where rotational forces are neglected—in [Z. ...

Phase transitions in CsPbCl3 crystals have been explored by photoacoustic (PA) method in a wide temperature range of 150–300 K. The PA signals, induced by ns-pulsed laser excitation of electronic states and detected with a piezoelectric transducer, are thermoelastic ultrasonic waves lasting for hundreds of microseconds. The wavelet analysis of the PA wave has clarified that the thermoelastic wa...

A new theory of two-temperature generalized thermoelasticity is constructed in the context of a new consideration of dual-phase-lag heat conduction with fractional orders. The theory is then adopted to study thermoelastic interaction in an isotropic homogenous semi-infinite generalized thermoelastic solids with variable thermal conductivity whose boundary is subjected to thermal and mechanical ...

The purpose of this research is to study the wave propagation in orthotropic generalized thermoelastic half-space with voids under initial stress. It is found that, for two dimensional model of orthotropic generalized thermoelastic material with voids under initial stress, there exists three quasi-longitudinal waves namely, quasi-longitudinal wave (QP-mode), quasi-longitudinal thermal wave (QPT...

We consider a structural acoustic problem with the flexible wall modeled by a thermoelastic plate, subject to Dirichlet boundary control in the thermal component. We establish sharp regularity results for the traces of the thermal variable on the boundary, in the case the system is supplemented with clamped mechanical boundary conditions. These regularity estimates are most crucial for validity...