On the interaction between a generalized screw dislocation and circular-arc interfacial rigid lines in magnetoelectroelastic solids

The interaction of a generalized screw dislocation, which is located inside either the inclusion or the matrix, with circular-arc interfacial rigid lines under remote antiplane shear stresses, in-plane electric and magnetic loads in linear magnetoelectroelastic materials is dealt with. By using the complex variable method, the general solutions of the physical problem are presented in this paper. The closed-form solutions for stresses, electric displacement fields and magnetic induction fields are derived explicitly for the interface with a finite rigid line. The image forces acting on the generalized screw dislocation are then calculated by using the generalized Peach-Koehler formula. The influence of the length and the location of the rigid line as well as the material mismatch on the image force is evaluated. Numerical computations and discussions show that, when the length or the position of the interfacial rigid line achieves a critical value, the image force on the dislocation changes its direction due to the existence of the rigid line. In addition, the soft inclusion can repel the dislocation in magnetoelectroelastic materials owing to their intrinsic magnetoelectromechanical coupling behavior.