Symmetric Thermo-Electro-Elastic Response of Piezoelectric Hollow Cylinder Under Thermal Shock Using Lord–Shulman Theory

The response of a long hollow cylindrical vessel made from a piezoelectric material is considered in the present investigation. The piezoelectric vessel is subjected to a thermal shock on one surface. The generalized piezo-thermo-elasticity formulation of Lord and Shulman is adopted which contains a single relaxation time to consider the finite speed of temperature wave propagation. The response of the cylinder is assumed to be axi-symmetric. Three coupled equations are established as the governing equations, which are the equation of motion, the energy equation and the Maxwell equation. These equations are transformed into the dimensionless ones. With the aid of the generalized differential quadrature method, these equations are discretized in the radial direction. After that, with the aid of the Newmark time marching scheme, the temporal evolutions of the thermo-electro-elastic parameters are obtained. Novel numerical results are presented to obtain the response of the cylinder subjected to a thermal shock using the Lord and Shulman theory of thermoelasticity.