In this paper, general relations between the overall properties of piezoelectric composites and the properties of their constituents are derived. Based on the solution for an ellipsoidal inclusion in a piezoelectric material developed by Wang [1,2], it is found that the coupled elastic and electric field inside a spheroidal inclusion in a transversely isotropic, piezoelectric matrix can be expressed in terms of a system of the linear algebraic equations which contains only some simple integrals. These internal fields are then used to obtain the effective constants of a piezoelectric composite.
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