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A Micromechanical Method for the Analysis of Three-Dimensional Smart Composites

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The aim of this paper is to develop a micromechanical method based on a proper representative volume element to investigate the effective coefficients and fully coupled electromagnetoelastic responses for three-dimensional smart composites. Relations between the particulate volume fraction, effective moduli, piezoelectric coefficients, and dielectric coefficients are investigated for the composites. Their effective responses, with account of electric, magnetic, and displacement fields, are analyzed. The numerical results obtained indicate that the overall strains of piezoelectric-piezomagnetic composites strongly depend on variations of the electric and magnetic fields.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51675397, 51505364) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JB150402).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Electronic Equipment Structure Design, **dian University, **’an, 710071, China

    J. J. Ye & Y. Y. Qiu

  2. Research Center for Applied Mechanics, **dian University, **’an, 710071, China

    J. J. Ye, Ch. Ch. Chu, Y. K. Wang & B. Q. Shi

  3. State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, **’an Jiaotong University, **’an, 710049, China

    Z. Zhai

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Russian translation published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 37-50, January-February, 2017.

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Ye, J.J., Chu, C.C., Wang, Y.K. et al. A Micromechanical Method for the Analysis of Three-Dimensional Smart Composites. Mech Compos Mater 54, 23–32 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11029-018-9714-z

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