Search for: [Abstract = "The present paper deals with the thermoelastic plane waves due to a thermo\-mechanical shock in the form of pulse at the boundary of a homogeneous, isotropic thermoelastic half\-space. The field equations of the Green\-Naugdhi theory without energy dissipation for an thermoelastic solid in the generalized thermoelasticity theory are written in the form of a vector\-matrix differential equation using Laplace transform techniques and then solved by an eigenvalue approach."]