Response due to mechanical and thermal sources in micropolar generalized thermoelastic medium

The eigen value approach, following the Laplace and Fourier transformation, is employed to find the general solution of the field equation in a micropolar generalized thermoelastic medium for a plane strain problem. An application of an infinite space with an impulsive mechanical source and thermal source is taken to illustrate the utility of the approach. The integral transformation is inverted by using a numerical inversion technique to get a result in the physical domain. The result in the form of normal displacement, normal force stress, tangential force stress, tangential couple stress and temperature field components is obtained numerically and illustrated graphically. A special case of a thermoelastic solid also deduced.