Abstract: “In recent years, smart composite materials have been employed in various science and engineering applications such as aerospace structures, nondestructive testing devices, medical devices, and sensing and actuating applications. One of the most popular classes is a 1-3 piezocomposite that composes of homogeneous transversely isotropic piezoelectric cylinders embedded in an isotropic elastic material. The 1-3 piezocomposites can produce higher electro-mechanical coupling effects, more conformable and less brittle than pure piezoelectric materials. For optimal design of these composites to meet high requirements in practical science and engineering applications, it is essential to know the effective properties that couple electromechanical properties of the composites. This paper is concerned with the development of an efficient methodology to determine the effective properties of smart composite materials with special emphasis on 1-3 piezocomposites. A micromechanics theory based on a p”

Keywords: Smart materials, Piezocomposites, Effective properties, Micromechanics, Boundary element method, Periodic microfield