We analyze the specifics of applying the method of generalized coupling problems to determine and study the temperature fields and the stresses they cause in piecewise-homogeneous bodies under nonideal thermomechanical contact at the interfaces.Piecewise-homogeneous structural elements are subject to various thermal loads during manufacture and use. In particular cases, due to the structural peculiarities, the thermomechanical contact on the interface of such structures cannot be regarded as ideal, since the bonding of the homogeneous components admits sliding, but the friction on the interface comes about due to the presence of thin intermediate layers. The modeling of such piecewisehomogeneous bodies and methods of determining their thermoelastic state has been rather completely described in monographs and survey publications [3,4,11,13,15,17], and the results of corresponding studies published in [1,6,7,10,14,18,20]. We remark that the first thermal conditions on the frictional separation of two bodies under a contact interaction taking account of heat production were stated by F. Ling [17] In what follows the method of generalized coupling problems [5,12,16], which is based on the application of the machinery of distributions, is applied in the thermoelasticity of bodies of piecewise-homogeneous structure in nonideal thermomechanical contact on the interfaces. The basic idea of the method is that a piecewisehomogeneous structure as a unified whole is modeled using unit functions, and to obtain the key equations the procedure of mathematical statement of the generalized coupling problem for the equations of thermoelasticity of homogeneous bodies is applied. In the procedure the required and given functions, and the coefficients of these differential equations of thermoelasticity are extended to the entire region occupied by the piecewise-homogeneous structure using the unit functions just mentioned, and the connections between the generalized and classical derivatives are taken into account along with the conditions of nonideal contact on the coupling surfaces of their homogeneous components. As a consequence of the realization of such a procedure, instead of the system of differential equations of thermoelasticity for each homogeneous component and the conditions of nonideal contact on the interfaces, we obtain corresponding partially degenerate differential equations with discontinuous coefficients taking account of the conditions of contact. To find their solutions we develop a method based on a way of constructing a fundamental system of solutions of the corresponding homogeneous ordinary differential equations of arbitrary order with discontinuous coefficients [9]. The need to solve these equations arises in the application of integral transforms to the key equations, and in the method of reducing such partially degenerate differential equations to boundary integral equations [2].We shall discuss in detail the specifics of applying the method of generalized coupling problems to determine and study the te...