On an inverse problem for inhomogeneous thermoelastic rod

In recent years, different fields of engineering have been increasingly incorporating functionally graded materials with variable physical properties that significantly improve a quality of elements of designs. The efficiency of practical application of thermoelastic inhomogeneous materials depends on knowledge of exact laws of heterogeneity, and to define them it is necessary to solve coefficient inverse problems of thermoelasticity.In the present research a scheme of solving the inverse problem for an inhomogeneous thermoelastic rod is presented. Two statements of the inverse problem are considered: in the Laplace transform space and in the actual space. The direct problem solving is reduced to a system of the Fredholm integral equations of the 2nd kind in the Laplace transform space and an inversion of the solutions obtained on the basis of the theory of residues. The inverse problem solving is reduced to an iterative procedure, at its each step it is necessary to solve the Fredholm integral equation of the 1st kind; to solve it the Tikhonov method is used. Specific examples of a reconstruction of variable characteristics required are given.