Interfacial waves in a piezoelectric/piezomagnetic/piezoelectric structure with magneto-electro-mechanical imperfect interfaces

Abstract

In this paper, we study the propagation of Shear Horizontal (SH) waves in the interfaces of a piezoelectric/piezomagnetic/piezoelectric (PiezoE/ PiezoM/ PiezoE) structure with a magnetical, imperfect magnetic, electric, and mechanical condition at interfaces. The inclusion of magnetical imperfections produced several new results, such as a general dispersion relation and expressions for some limit cases, which were not reported previously in the literature, predicting the existence of interfacial waves. Employing numerical calculations, dispersion curves for this kind of structure are presented for the first time. It can be shown that the magnetical imperfection interface influences the dispersion curves. Our results show that especially magnetic imperfections have a significant influence on the dispersion curves.