Three-dimensional Green's functions for transversely isotropic thermoporoelastic bimaterials

Abstract

Abstract Green's functions for transversely isotropic thermoporoelastic bimaterials are established in the paper. We first express the compact general solutions of transversely isotropic thermoporoelastic material in terms of harmonic functions and introduce eight new harmonic functions. The three-dimensional Green's function having a concentrated liquid source or a concentrated heat source in steady state is completely solved using these new harmonic functions. The analytical results show some new phenomena of the pore fluid pressure increment, thermal increment and stress distributions at the interface. In the two materials, the pore fluid pressure has the same distribution because of the common fluid permeability, but the situation is different for the thermal increment. Shear failure is most likely at the two sources due to the highly degenerated direction of shear stress contours.