EN
We study the initial boundary value problem for the system of thermoelasticity in a sequence of perforated cylindrical domains $Q_{T}^{(s)}$, s = 1,2,... We prove that as s → ∞, the solution of the problem converges in appropriate topologies to the solution of a limit initial boundary value problem of the same type but containing some additional terms which are expressed in terms of quantities related to the geometry of $Q_{T}^{(s)}$. We give an explicit construction of that limit problem.