Green’s functions for extended displacement discontinuity in a three-dimensional
two-phase transversely isotropic magnetoelectroelastic medium are obtained by using
the integral equation method. Based on the obtained Green’s functions, an extended
displacement discontinuity method is developed for analysis of planar cracks of arbitrary
shape in three-dimensional two-phase magnetoelectroelastic media. A rectangular
interior crack parallel to the interface under the electrically and magnetically
impermeable boundary condition is analyzed, and the extended intensity factors are
calculated by the proposed method. The magnetoelectroelastic medium is made with
BaTiO as the inclusion and
CoFeO
as the matrix. The influences of the interface and the material properties on the
extended intensity factors are studied. Numerical results show that the three
normalized extended intensity factors, that is, the stress intensity factor, the electric
displacement intensity factor, and the magnetic induction intensity factor, are
different both from each other and from the case of a crack in a homogeneous
medium.