Study of deformation due to thermal shock in porous thermoelastic material with reference temperature dependent properties.

The present study is focused on the numerical investigation in time domain of the deformation in thermoelastic material with one relaxation time (Lord and Shulman theory) with voids under dependence of modulus of elasticity and thermal conductivity on reference temperature. For dependency on reference temperature, we have taken two cases: (i) linear case and (ii) quadratic case. For numerical investigation, the finite element method with eight-/nine-noded isoparametric finite elements has been used. The results demonstrate that finite element method can reliably predict the deformation of the medium. Finite element method has an advantage over Laplace/Fourier transformation as the equations are solved directly in the time domain, but in Laplace/Fourier transformation, numerical inversion is quite complicated with possible errors. The comparison of these two cases has been discussed in result and discussion section for the temperature distribution, the displacement component, volume fraction field and the stresses. A comparison of Newmark method and Galerkin's method for time domain has been given though three-dimensional graphs. An appreciable effect of thermal relaxation times t0 is observed from the various results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]