UDC 536.12:539.377

Rajneesh Kumar and Rajani Rani Gupta

PLANE STRAIN DEFORMATION IN AN ORTHOTROPIC
MICROPOLAR THERMOELASTIC SOLID WITH HEAT SOURCE

The problem of plane strain deformation in an orthotropic 
micropolar generalized thermoelastic half-space subjected to an arbitrary 
point heat source is solved. Closed-form solutions for spatial distributions 
of displacements, stresses, and temperature are derived by using the 
Fourier transform. A numerical inversion technique has been applied 
to obtain the solution in the physical domain. Numerical results are 
obtained and presented graphically along with a comparison of ones 
for concentrated and distributed, as well as mechanical and thermal 
sources.

Department of Mathematics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, 
Haryana, India; email: rajneesh_kuk@rediffmail.com, 
rajani_gupta_83@rediffmail.com. Original article submitted June 8, 2007; 
revision submitted May 2, 2008.