Thermomechanical Deformation in an Orthotropic Micropolar Thermoelastic Solid

The thermomechanical deformation in an orthotropic micropolar generalized thermoelastic half-space is investigated. Descarte's method, along with the irreducible case of Cardon's method, is used to obtain the roots of an eight-degree equation. Laplace and Fourier transform techniques are used to obtain the general solution for the set of boundary value problems. Particular types of boundary conditions have been taken to illustrate the utility of the approach. The transformed components of the stresses and temperature distribution have been obtained. A numerical inversion technique is employed to invert the integral transform, and the resulting quantities are presented graphically.