Magnetoelectric (ME) materials have presented themselves appealing towards sensing and energy harvestingapplications. Comprehensive studies under linear and nonlinear material behavior have been performed onsymmetric ME laminates subjected to homogeneous deformations. However, studies on unsymmetric laminatesworking under bending action are sparse, despite their advantages like low resonant frequencies. A finite element(FE) model is thus developed in this work based on Mindlin plate theory to quantify the ME coupling under anapplied magnetic loading in quasi-static and resonant conditions. Due emphasis has been given to the materialnonlinearity of the ferromagnetic phase and the resulting ME coupling in bending and axial as well as torsionalmodes has been studied. The influence of the frequency of applied AC magnetic field, the magnitude of the biasfield and their orientation relative to the plate axes and the effect of plate width are explored for free-free andcantilever conditions. The developed model is also validated against data available in literature. The resultsillustrate that the cantilever configuration offers a two-fold advantage of high ME coupling and low resonantfrequency.
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