This paper investigates the transient disturbances created by an internal line heat source that suddenly starts moving uniformly inside a visco-elastic half-space. The generalised theory of thermo-elasticity with relaxation time proposed by Lord-Shulman (1967) is applied. The material of the semi-infinite medium is isotropic visco-elastic solid of Kelvin-Voight type. Applying the Fourier and Laplace transform technique, expressions for displacement components in the transformed domain are found out. These expressions prove the existence of three waves - a modified thermal wave, a visco-elastic wave of defused nature and a transverse visco-elastic wave. Surface displacement components are evaluated on the boundary for small time only. Numerical results are given and illustrated graphically to highlight the variations of surface displacement components with distance for different values of time, source depth and velocity of the source.
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