This paper is concerned with the effective piezoelectric moduli of a special class of dispersions called matrix laminates composites that are known to possess extremal elastic and dielectric moduli. It is assumed that the matrix material is an isotropic dielectric, and the inclusions and composites are transversely isotropic piezoelectrics that share the same axis of symmetry. The exact express...

We develop a new 3D wavefield-extrapolation method for a transversely isotropic (TI) medium with a symmetry axis. The wavefield extrapolation is done by an implicit isotropic extrapolation operator with an explicit correction operator. The explicit correction is a 2D convolution operator in the space domain, whose coefficients are estimated by a weighted least-squares method in the Fourier doma...

The objective of this paper is to provide guidance for the design of the thick-walled cylinder made up of transversely isotropic material so that collapse of cylinder due to influence of internal and external pressure can be avoided. The concept of transition theory based on Lebesgue strain measure has been used to simplify the constitutive equations. Results have been analyzed theoretically an...

biomechanical properties of soft tissue, such as liver, are important in modeling computer aided surgical procedures. experimental evidences show that liver tissue is transversely isotropic. in this article, considering the liver tissue as an incompressible fiber-reinforced composite with one family of fibers, an exponential strain energy function (sef) is proposed. the proposed sef is based on...

by virtue of a complete set of two displacement potentials, an analytical derivation of the elastostatic green’s functions of an exponentially graded transversely isotropic bi-material full-space was presented. three-dimensional point-load green’s functions for stresses and displacements were given in line-integral representations. the formulation included a complete set of transformed stress-p...