Stress state of a piezoelectric elastic medium with an arbitrarily oriented triaxial ellipsoidal inclusion

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 406-412
Author(s):  
I. Yu. Babich ◽  
V. S. Kirilyuk

A rigid ellipsoidal inclusion is embedded at arbitrary orientation in a homogeneous, arbitrarily anisotropic, elastic matrix and is translated infinitesimally by an externally imposed force. We find directly the relation between the force and translation vectors, and the stress, strain and rotation concentrations over the ellipsoidal surface, without having to solve the equations of equilibrium in the matrix, or the fundamental ones of a point force. We refer particularly then to a spheroid aligned along the axis of symmetry of a transversely isotropic matrix, and subsequently to the full elastic field of a general ellipsoid in an isotropic matrix.


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