“…The development of magnetoelectroelastic materials has recently stimulated the studies of some fundamental problems. These investigations include: the existence of surface waves (Alshits et al 1992, Chen et al 2007, Liu et al 2007, wave scattering (Du et al 2004, uniqueness and reciprocity theorems (Li 2003), various Green's function solutions (Chung and Ting 1995, Kirchner and Alshits 1996, Li 2002, Pan 2002, Wang and Shen 2002, Soh et al 2003, Lee and Ma 2007, deformation of multilayered magnetoelectroelastic plates (Pan 2001 and circular tubes or bars (Wang and Zhong 2003), free vibration of simply supported and multilayered magnetoelectroelastic plates (Pan and Heyliger 2002), static fracture problems (Gao et al 2003a, 2003b, Spyropoulos et al 2003, Hu et al 2006, Wang and Mai 2007, and impact problems (Feng et al 2005, Zhou et al 2005. In addition, Soh and Liu (2005) derived eight types of constitutive equation for magnetoelectroelastic solids in which different independent variables were considered.…”