“…Besides, the EMI model with respect to the sliding-type interfacial defect has also been developed, in which the plane-stress problem is taken into account, and hence, only the two-dimensional equations of elasticity are employed (Yan et al, 2009). In this article, a laminated orthotropic rectangular plate with either surface-bonded (Bois et al, 2007;Yan et al, 2009Yan et al, , 2011b or embedded piezoelectric layer (Annamdas and Soh, 2006) is investigated based on the state space formulations (Alibeigloo, 2015;Parand and Alibeigloo, 2017;Yan et al, 2014), in which the threedimensional constitute relations are adopted without any assumption. In order to establish the global transfer matrix of the smart laminate, a matrix reduction technique (Yan et al, 2011b) is utilized to reconstruct the transfer relations between the piezoelectric layer and the elastic strips.…”