Nonlocal effects in a functionally graded thermoelastic layer due to volumetric absorption laser.

The primary focus of the present contribution is to develop a new system of differential equations describing the nonlocal thermoelasticity theory. The problem deals with the thermoelastic interaction in a nonhomogeneous thermoelastic layer induced by absorbing penetrating laser radiation throughout its volume. The heat conduction equation has been formulated in the context of memory dependent three-phase lag model. The surfaces of the layer are thermally insulated and free of traction. Employing the integral Laplace transform technique, the solutions of the field quantities have been achieved in the transformed domain. The corresponding solutions in the space–time domain have been derived using the numerical inversion of the Laplace transform by Riemann-sum approximation technique. The numerical estimates of the field quantities have been depicted graphically to address the effects of nonlocality and memory effects on the temperature profile, displacement and stress components. The effect of the delay time, nonhomogeneity and various choices of linear and nonlinear kernel functions in the heat transport law have also been reported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]