TRANSIENT GENERALIZED MAGNETOTHERMOELASTIC WAVES IN A ROTATING HALF-SPACE

The present paper deals with the investigations of the distribution of deformation, temperature, stresses and magnetic field in a homogeneous isotropic, thermally and electrically conducting, uniformly rotating elastic half-space, in contact with vacuum, due to (i) normal load and (ii) impulsive load, at the plane boundary, in the context of generalised theory of thermoelasticity. The Laplace transform on time has been used to obtain the solutions. Because 'second sound' effects are short-lived, so small time approximations have been considered. The standard results of the previous investigations have also been deduced as particular cases. © 1990.