A unified generalized thermoelasticity solution for the transient thermal shock problem in the context of three different generalized theories of the coupled thermoelasticity, namely: the extended thermoelasticity, the temperature-rate-dependent thermoelasticity and the thermoelasticity without energy dissipation is proposed in this paper. First, a unified form of the governing equations is presented by introducing the unifier parameters. Second, the unified equations are derived for the thermoelastic problem of the isotropic and homogeneous materials subjected to a transient thermal shock. The Laplace transform and inverse transform are used to solve these equations, and the unified analytical solutions in the transform domain and the short-time approximated solutions in the time domain of displacement, temperature and stresses are obtained. Finally, the numerical results for copper material are displayed in graphical forms to compare the characteristic features of the above three generalized theories for dealing with the transient thermal shock problem.

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The inertia effect induced by the motion of heat flow will have a significant impact on the heat transfer, when the heat pulse duration or the device structure has micro-scale characteristics. Based on the thermomass theory, the thermal wave equation is introduced to describe the motion of thermomass, and the generalized thermoelastic dynamic model involved in the thermal inertia is established by combining the constitutive relation of isotropic material. By taking into account the micro-scale characteristics for the transient heat transfer, the one-dimensional problem for the semi-infinite solid with the boundary subject to thermal impact is investigated by an analytic method, where the asymptotic solutions for thermoelastic response are obtained. With these solutions, the propagation of the thermal wave and thermal elastic wave and the distribution of the temperature, displacement and stresses are studied. By comparison with the same predictions of the L-S generalized thermoelasticity, the effect of thermal inertia on the thermal behaviors is revealed. The results show that the spatial thermal inertia induced by the motion of heat flux has an impact on the thermal behaviors, except for the temporal thermal inertia. All the velocities and wavefront locations of thermal wave and thermal elastic wave, and the time of each physical field begin to establish, the peak values of jumps and the intervals of two jumps are influenced by the spatial thermal inertia.