Response of Thermoelastic Double Porous Medium Due to Inclined Load

Abstract

The steady state response due to inclined load of arbitrary orientation in a homogeneous, isotropic thermoelastic material with double porosity in context of Lord-Shulman theory of thermoelasticity has been investigated. The inclined load is supposed to be a linear combination of normal load and tangential load. Fourier transform technique has been applied to solve the problem. The normal stress, tangential stress, equilibrated stress components and temperature distribution are obtained in the transformed domain. The results in the physical domain are obtained by using a numerical inversion technique for a particular model. Numerically computed results for these quantities are depicted graphically to show the effect of porosity. Some particular cases are also deduced from the present investigation to show the generalization of the model considered.