Application of Transfer Matrix Method in Analyzing the Inhomogeneous Initial Stress Problem in Prestressed Layered Piezoelectric Media

Theory of Electroelasticity

“…Experiments show that the distribution of initial stresses along the depth x 1 in the layers is shown in Fig. For a multilayer structure the transfer matrix method is a useful technique (Thomson 1950;Stewart and Yong 1994;Liu et al 2003b;Su et al 2005). The thickness of the substrate is much larger than that of layers and can be treated as a half-space.…”