Computational prediction of effective magnetostriction and moduli of multiphase magnetostrictive composites

The effective magnetostriction and moduli are important properties of magnetostrictive composites. The focus of this paper was to develop a micromechanics model to predict the effective magnetostriction and moduli of the multiphase composites containing magnetostrictive phases. The present model was extended from the VAMUCH, a recently developed general purpose micromechanics model. The influences of interphase and constituent properties on the effective magnetostriction were analyzed using VAMUCH as well. VAMUCH provides an efficient way to analyze multiphase magnetostrictive composites.