A generalized variational principle and theoretical model for magnetoelastic interaction of ferromagnetic bodies

Abstract

The quantitative analysis shows that no theoretical model for 3-d magnetoelastic bodies, in literatures to date, can commonly simulate two kinds of distinct experimental phenomena on magnetoelastic interaction of ferromagnetic structures. This makes it difficult to effectively discribe the magnetoelastic mechanical behavior of structures with complex geometry, such as shells. Therefore, it is a key step for simulating magnetoelastic mechanical characteristics of structures with complex geometry to establish a 3-d model which also can commonly characterize the two distinct experimental phenomena. A theoretical model for three dimension magnetizable elastic bodies, which is commonly suitable for the two kinds of experimental phenomena on magnetoelastic interaction of ferromagnetic plates, is presented by the variational principle for the total energy functional of the coupling system of the 3-d ferromagnetic bodies. It is found that for the case of linear isotropic magnetic materials, the magnetic forces obtained by this model include not only the body magnetic force which is the same as that got from the magnetic dipole model, but also a distribution of the magnetic traction on the surface of the magnetizable body. And the value of the traction is equal to the jumping one of the Faraday electromagnetic stress on the two sides of the surface, which does not appear in any model, such as magnetic dipole model and axiomatic model.