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In the present work, transient response of sandwich cylindrical panel with functionally graded material (FGM) core under thermal shock was studied employing generalized coupled thermoelasticity in the framework of the Lord–Shulman formulation. Using Fourier series solution along the axial and circumferential coordinates along with state space formulation for space domain and applying Laplace transform for time domain results in state space first order differential equations that can be solved analytically. Solutions are then changed to time domain via employing inverse Laplace transform. In numerical illustration, influence of relaxation time constant, amount of thermal shock, stacking sequence and mid radius to thickness ratio on transient behavior of sandwich cylindrical panel under thermal shock are examined.