Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. (2016) 73: 30901
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2016150359

Regular Article

Multiphysics modeling of multiferroic artificial materials by the finite element method^*

Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, UR2, L2E, 75005 Paris, France

^a e-mail: hakeim.talleb@upmc.fr

Received: 16 July 2015
Revised: 19 October 2015
Accepted: 5 February 2016
Published online: 9 March 2016

Abstract

This paper proposes an investigation of the magnetoelectric (ME) effect of multiferroic artificial ME composite combining a piezoelectric matrix medium incrusted of magnetostrictive particles. The modeling has been performed on a 0-3 type multiferroic artificial ME composite in using a multiphysics code based on the finite element method. The simulation results show the variability of the magnetoelectric coefficient when the random dissemination of the magnetostrictive particles is applied.