Deformation due to Mechanical and Thermal Sources in a Thermoelastic Body with Voids under Axi-symmetric Distributions

The Laplace and Hankel transforms have been employed to find the general solution of a homogeneous, isotropic, thermoelastic half-space with voids for a plane axi-symmetric problem. The application of a thermoelastic half-space with voids subjected to a normal force and a thermal source acting at the origin has been considered to show the utility of the solution obtained. To obtain the solution in a physical form, a numerical inversion technique has been applied. The results in the form of displacements, stresses, temperature distribution, and change in volume fraction field are computed numerically and illustrated graphically for a magnesium crystal-like material to depict the effects of voids in the theory of coupled thermoelasticity (CT) and uncoupled thermoelasticity (UCT) for an insulated boundary and a temperature gradient boundary