Effective properties of coated fibrous piezoelectric composites with spring-type interfaces under anti-plane mechanical and in-plane electrical loads

In this paper, we investigate the effective properties of three-phase (matrix/coating/fiber) cylindrical piezoelectric composites with imperfect interfaces under anti-plane mechanical and in-plane electrical loads. By using the electromechanically coupling spring-type interface model and the generalized self-consistent method (GSM), we analytically derived the effective electroelastic moduli. The present solutions include as special cases the three-phase cylindrical piezoelectric composites with perfect interfaces as well as the two-phase (matrix/fiber) case with imperfect or perfect interfaces. Selected calculations are graphically shown to demonstrate dependence of the effective moduli on the interfacial properties. The particular size-dependent characteristic due to the interfacial imperfection is also discussed.