Generalized thermoelastic waves in spherical curved plates without energy dissipation

In this article, the propagation of thermoelastic waves in orthotropic spherical curved plates subjected to stress-free, isothermal boundary conditions is investigated in the context of the Green–Naghdi (GN) generalized thermoelastic theory (without energy dissipation). The theoretical formulation is based on the linear GN thermoelastic theory. The coupled wave equation and heat conduction equation expressed by the displacement and temperature are obtained. By the Legendre orthogonal polynomial series expansion approach, the coupled controlling equations are solved. The convergence of the method is demonstrated through a numerical example. The dispersion curves of thermal modes and elastic modes are illustrated simultaneously. Dispersion curves of the corresponding purely elastic spherical plate are also shown to analyze the influence of thermoelasticity on elastic modes. The displacement, temperature and stress distributions of both elastic modes and thermal modes are calculated to show their differences. A thermoelastic spherical plate with a different ratio of radius to thickness is considered to show the influence of the ratio on the characteristics of thermoelastic waves.