A generalized thermoelastic medium subjected to pulsed laser heating via a two-temperature model

This article investigates stress and induced temperature in an isotropic, homogeneous, thermoelastic half-space using a two-temperature generalized thermoelasticity model. The bounding plane surface of the present half-space continuum is subjected to a non-Gaussian laser pulse. Laplace’s transform space is considered to deduce a closed-form solution to the problem. In addition, the inversions of Laplace’s transformations have been carried numerically to obtain field quantities in the transient state. The effects of parameters of two-temperature, laser-pulse and laser intensity are investigated. A concluding remark for the graphical forms of the derived expressions is presented.