Thermodynamical interactions in a nonlocal initially stressed fiber-reinforced thermoelastic medium with microtemperatures under GN-II model

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study the thermoelastic interactions in a nonlocal initially stressed fiber-reinforced transversely isotropic half-space with microtemperatures. The formulation is established in the context of Green-Naghdi theory of thermoelasticity without energy dissipation. Normal mode technique is used to obtain the general solution for a set of boundary conditions. The expressions of different physical variables such as displacement distribution, stress distribution, temperature field and microtemperatures are obtained in the physical domain and numerical computations are carried out with the help of MATLAB software. Comparisons are made among the results for different values of nonlocal parameter and time along with the results obtained in the presence and absence of fiber-reinforcement and microtemperature. The outcomes point out a strong impact of the nonlocal parameter, fiber-reinforcement, microtemperatures and time on the field variables. Some particular cases of special interest have also been deduced to show the comparison between the present results and previous investigations.