Transient piezothermoelastic problem for a laminated composite strip composed of angle-ply and piezoelectric laminae

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the theoretical treatment of transient piezothermoelastic problem which is developed for a laminated composite strip composed of angle-ply laminae and a piezoelectric material of crystal class mm2, subject to nonuniform heat supply in the width direction. We obtain the exact solution for the two-dimensional temperature change in a transient state and the transient piezothermoelastic response of a simple supported composite strip under the state of generalized plane deformation. As an example, numerical calculations are carried out for a angle-ply laminated composite strip made of an alumina fiber reinforced aluminum composite, associated with a piezoelectric layer of a cadmium selenide solid. Some numerical results for temperature change, displacement, stress and electric potential distributions in a transient state are shown in figures. Furthermore, the influence of the thickness of the piezoelectric layer on the thermal stress or electric field is investigated.