Thermoelasticity of multilayered cylinders

Thermoelasticity of multilayered cylinders subjected to known temperatures at traction-free boundaries are considered. Laplace transform and finite di fference methods are used to analyze problems Using the Laplace transform w ith respect to time, the general solutions of the governing equations are o btained in transform domain. The solution is obtained using the matrix simi larity transformation and inverse Laplace transform. We obtained solutions for the temperature and thermal stress distributions in a transient state. Moreover, the computational procedures established in this article can solv e the generalized thermoelasticity problem for a multilayered composite cyl inder with nonhomogeneous materials.