Mixed Electromagnetic Crack-Face Conditions in a Piezoelectric/Piezomagnetic Bimaterial under Antiplane Mechanical Loading and In-Plane Electric Fields

An interface crack between two semi-infinite piezoelectric/piezomagnetic media under out-of-plane mechanical load and in-plane electric and magnetic fields parallel to the crack faces is examined. A portion of the faces is electrically conducting and kept at a uniform magnetic potential, while the remaining portion is electrically and magnetically permeable. The coupled fields are represented by functions analytic in the plane outside the crack. With these representations, the mixed crack-face conditions lead to a combined Dirichlet–Riemann and Hilbert boundary-value problem, which is solved in closed form for arbitrary conductive versus permeable segment lengths. The solution yields explicit expressions for stresses, electric and magnetic fields, and the crack-face sliding (displacement jump). The singular behavior at both crack tips and at the transition between conducting and permeable zones is characterized, and intensity factors are defined accordingly. Parametric results illustrate how applied electric and magnetic fields modulate the fracture driving force; in particular, suitable magnetic loading can markedly reduce the mechanical stress intensity at the permeable tip. The formulas supply benchmark data for verification and enable design guidelines for tailoring electrode coverage and field application to mitigate interface fracture. The approach provides an analytic framework for mixed electromagnetic conditions in magnetoelectroelastic interface fracture.