Abstract
The simple and refined Lord-Shulman theories, the simple and refined Green-Lindsay theories as well as the coupled thermoelasticity theory were all employed to investigate the deformation of a rotating thermoelastic half-space. The present medium is subjected to initial pressure, bounded by hydrostatic initial stress and rotation. A unified heat conduction equation is presented. The normal mode strategy is applied to get all analytical expressions of temperature, stresses, and displacements. Some outcomes are tabulated to validate the present refined theories with the simple and classical thermoelasticity theories. The effect of hydrostatic initial stress was investigated on all field quantities of the rotating thermoelastic half-space with and without initial pressure. Two- and three-dimensional plots are illustrated in the context of refined theories to discuss the behaviors of all variables through the coordinate axes. Some particular cases of special interest have been deduced from the present investigation.