“…To the author's best knowledge, only a few authors have presented the exact two-dimensional solution of the generalized thermoelastic beam problem up to present time. Downloaded by [RMIT University Library] at 23: 12 29 June 2016 Many investigators have used different forms of the normal mode analysis to obtain the exact analytical solutions of various thermoelastic problems [1,8,9,10,11,19,21,22,23,28]. Most of these publications have used the Laplace transformation to eliminate the time parameter.…”