Magneto-thermo-visco-elastic waves in an initially stressed conducting layer

The aim of this paper is to investigate magneto-thermo-viscoelastic surface waves in electrically and thermally conducting layers involving time rates of strain and stress of ordern, the media being under an initial stress in the nature of hydrostatic tension or compression. The theory of magneto-thermo-visco-elastic surface waves in the conducting medium involving strain rate and stress rate ofnth order is derived under initial stress. This theory is then employed to obtain wave velocity equations in specific cases. Results obtained in the above cases reduce to well-known classical results when additional fields are absent.