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In this work, the effective electro-elastic properties of piezoelectric composites are computed using the Maxwell homogenization method (MHM). The composites are made by several families of spheroidal inhomogeneities embedded in a homogeneous infinite medium (matrix). Each family of spheroidal inhomogeneities is made of the same material, and all the inhomogeneities have identical size and shape and are randomly oriented. The inhomogeneities and matrix materials exhibit piezoelectric transversely isotropic symmetry. It is shown that the shape of the “effective inclusion” substantially affects the effective piezoelectric properties. A new and simple form to calculate the aspect ratio of effective inclusion is presented. The effect on the overall piezoelectric properties due to the orientation of the inhomogeneities and different families of piezoelectric inhomogeneities is discussed. The MHM approach is applied in two examples, material with inhomogeneities having scatter orientation and composites with two different families of spheroidal inhomogeneities.
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The funding of Proyecto Nacional de Ciencias Básicas 2013-2015 (Project No. 7515) is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks to the Mathematics and Mechanics Department at IIMAS-UNAM and FENOMEC for their support and to Ramiro Chávez Tovar and Ana Pérez Arteaga for computational assistance. The authors would like to thank the project PHC Carlos J. Finlay 2018 Project No. 39142TA (France–Cuba) and the French embassy in Havana for their support on travel expenses of PhD students in 2018. The author Rodríguez-Ramos would like to thank MyM-IIMAS-UNAM and PREI-DGAPA-UNAM for the financial support provided.
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Appendices
Appendix A. \({\mathbf {T}}\), \({\mathbf {U}}\), \({\mathbf {t}}\) tensor bases representation
The electro-elastic properties of a piezoelectric transversely isotropic material can be represented in the form
where \(C_{11}\), \(C_{12}\), \(C_{13}\), \(C_{33}\), \(C_{44}\) are five independent elastic moduli of the transversely isotropic medium, \(e_{31}\), \(e_{15}\), \(e_{33}\) are three piezoelectric constants, and \(\epsilon _{33}\), \(\epsilon _{11}\) are two permittivities. The quantities \({\mathbf {T}}^{i}(\phi ,\theta )\), \({\mathbf {U}}^{i}(\phi ,\theta )\), \({\mathbf {t}}^{i}(\phi ,\theta )\) are the elements of the tensor basis defined in Ref. [38] as follows:
where \(m_{i}(\phi ,\varphi ) = (\cos \theta \sin \phi ,\sin \theta \sin \phi ,\cos \phi )\) is the unit vector along the symmetry axis of the material and is defined by Eq. (3.9).
The average electro-elastic properties of a composite in which the inhomogeneities have arbitrary orientations are given by integrating over the different orientations,
after taking into account Eqs. (A.1) and (3.10). The functions \(P_{\lambda }(\phi )\) and \(P_{\sigma }(\phi )\) described in Eqs. (3.6) and (3.7), respectively, are represented by the function \(P_{p}(\phi )\). The components of \({\mathbf {C}}^{p}\), \({\mathbf {e}}^{p}\), and \({\varvec{\epsilon }}^{p}\) are given by
When \(p = \lambda \), the functions \(g_{i}(\lambda )\) are defined as
For \(p = \sigma \), the functions \(g_{i}(\sigma )\) are defined as follows:
Taking the limit of parallel orientations \(p\rightarrow \infty \), the components of \(\mathbf{C }^{(p)}\), \(\mathbf{e }^{(p)}\), \({\varvec{\epsilon }}^{(p)}\) have the following form:
after substitution of \(g_{i}(\lambda )\) or \(g_{i}(\sigma )\) into Eq. (A.4). The limits in Eq. (A.7) are in agreement with the representation of a transversely isotropic medium \(\mathbf{C }(0,\theta )\), \(\mathbf{e }(0,\theta )\), \({\varvec{\epsilon }}(0,\theta )\) in the tensor basis given by Eq. (A.2).
Appendix B. Components of the tensors \(\bar{{\mathbf {S}}}^{(r)}_{x}\), \(\bar{{\mathbf {M}}}^{(r)}_{x}\), \(\bar{{\mathbf {S}}}^{(r)}_{,x}\), and \(\bar{{\mathbf {M}}}^{(r)}_{,x}\).
The tensor \({\mathbf {S}}^{(r)}_{x}\) is given by Eq. (2.5). Due to the \(\varphi \) and u dependence in Eq. (2.5), the only non-vanishing components of \(S^{(r)}_{x(klij)}\) are \(S^{(r)}_{x(1111)} = S^{(r)}_{x(2222)}\), \(S^{(r)}_{x(1122)} = S^{(r)}_{x(2211)}\), \(S^{(r)}_{x(3333)}\), \(S^{(r)}_{x(1133)} = S^{(r)}_{x(2233)} = S^{(r)}_{x(3311)} = S^{(r)}_{x(3322)}\), \(S^{(r)}_{x(2323)} = S^{(r)}_{x(2332)} = S^{(r)}_{x(3223)} = S^{(r)}_{x(3232)} = S^{(r)}_{x(1313)} =S^{(r)}_{x(1331)} = S^{(r)}_{x(3113)} = S^{(r)}_{x(3131)}\) and \(S^{(r)}_{x(1212)} = S^{(r)}_{x(1221)} = S^{(r)}_{x(2112)} = S^{(r)}_{x(2121)}\). Then, using the Voigt two-index notation,
Here, the determinant \(|{\bar{\Gamma }}_{li}|\) of \({\bar{\Gamma }}_{li}\) is given by
where \(\Lambda _{a}({\varvec{\zeta }})\), \(\Lambda _{ab}({\varvec{\zeta }})\), \(\Lambda _{ac}({\varvec{\zeta }})\), \(\Lambda _{c}({\varvec{\zeta }})\), \(\Gamma _{a}({\varvec{\zeta }})\), \(\Gamma _{b}({\varvec{\zeta }})\), \(\Gamma _{c}({\varvec{\zeta }})\), \(\Gamma _{ab}({\varvec{\zeta }})\), \(\Gamma _{ac}({\varvec{\zeta }})\), \(\gamma _{a}({\varvec{\zeta }})\), \(\gamma _{c}({\varvec{\zeta }})\), and \(\epsilon ({\varvec{\zeta }})\) are given by
The tensor \({\mathbf {S}}^{(r)}_{,x}\) is obtained from Eq. (2.6). The only nonzero components of \(S^{(r)}_{,x(k4ij)}\) are \(S^{(r)}_{,x(1413)} = S^{(r)}_{,x(2423)} = S^{(r)}_{,x(1431)} = S^{(r)}_{,x(2432)}\), \(S^{(r)}_{,x(3411)} = S^{(r)}_{x(3422)}\), and \(S^{(r)}_{,x(3433)}\), due to the \(\varphi \) and u dependence in Eq. (2.6). Then, in Voigt’s notation,
The tensor \({\mathbf {M}}^{(r)}_{,x}\) is given by Eq. (2.7). Due to the \(\varphi \) and u dependence in Eq. (2.7), the only nonzero components of \(M^{(r)}_{,x(k44j)}\) are \(M^{(r)}_{,x(1441)} = M^{(r)}_{,x(2442)}\) and \(M^{(r)}_{,x(3443)}\). Then
Here, the determinant \(|\Gamma _{li}|\) of \(\Gamma _{li}\) is written as
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Rodríguez-Ramos, R., Gandarilla-Pérez, C.A., Lau-Alfonso, L. et al. Maxwell homogenization scheme for piezoelectric composites with arbitrarily-oriented spheroidal inhomogeneities. Acta Mech 230, 3613–3632 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-019-02481-0
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