Modelling the in-plane thermoelectric properties of fibre-reinforced multi-directional laminates

Analytical models are developed for the first time in this work for assessing the in-plane electric, thermal and thermoelectric properties of multi-directional composite laminates based on the lay-up and the ply orthotropic properties. In particular, both the apparent laminate Seebeck coefficients along two orthogonal in-plane directions and the complete coupled thermoelectric constitutive law are obtained.