Variable properties reconstruction for functionally graded thermoelectroelastic cylinder

In this research, we present an approach to identify variable characteristics of an inhomogeneous thermoelectroelastic radially polarized elongated hollow cylinder. The cylinder’s thermomechanical characteristics depend on the radial coordinate. We consider two loading types for the cylinder—the mechanical and the thermal ones. The radial displacement is considered as the additional data collected on the outer cylinder’s surface under the first type load, while the temperature measured over a certain time interval is considered for the second type load. The direct problem after non-dimensioning and applying the Laplace transform is solved by jointly applying the shooting method and the transform inversion based on expanding the actual space in terms of the shifted Legendre polynomials. The effect of the laws of change in variable characteristics on the input data values taken in the experiment is analyzed. A nonlinear inverse problem on the reconstruction of the cylinder’s variable properties is formulated and solved on the basis of an iterative technique. The initial approximation is set in the class of positive bounded linear functions whose coefficients are determined from the condition of minimizing the residual functional. To find the corrections at each stage of the iterative process, the Fredholm integral equations of the first kind are solved by means of the Tikhonov method. A series of computational experiments on recovering one and two variable characteristics is conducted. The effect of coupling parameters and input noise on the reconstruction results is revealed.