Generalized thermoelastic functionally graded orthotropic hollow sphere under thermal shock with three-phase-lag effect

This problem deals with the determination of thermo-elastic interaction due to step input of temperature on the boundaries of a functionally graded orthotropic hollow sphere in the context of linear theories of generalized thermo-elasticity. Using the Laplace transformation the fundamental equations have been expressed in the form of vector–matrix differential equation which is then solved by eigenvalue approach. The inverse of the transformed solution is carried out by applying a method of Bellman et al. Stresses, displacement and temperature distributions have been computed numerically and presented graphically in a number of figures. A comparison of the results for different theories (TEWOED(GN-II), TEWED(GN-III) and three-phase-lag model) is presented. When the material is homogeneous, isotropic and outer radius of the hollow sphere tends to infinity, the corresponding results agree with that of existing literature for GN-III model.