DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL GENERALIZED THERMOELASTIC COUPLING PROBLEM SUBJECTED TO A MOVING HEAT SOURCE

Based on the Lord and Shulman generalized thermoelasticity theory with one relaxation time, an isotropic semi-infinite plate subjected to a moving heat source has been studied by employing the finite element method directly in time domain, whose distributions of nondimensional temperature, displacement and stress are illustrated graphically. The results show that the present method is an effective and exact numerical one for solving the thermoelastic coupling problem and is capable of overcoming the defects of traditional integrated transformation and inverse integrated transformation methods. At the same time, the temperature step of the thermal wave front is obtained exactly in contrast with conventional numerical transformation methods.