Near-field shielding and reflection characteristics of anisotropic laminated planar composites

A theoretical model is proposed to study the nearfield shielding and reflection characteristics of anisotropic laminated planar composites, Specifically, the plane-wave spectral representation is used to express the dipole held and the wave-transmission matrix technique is employed to deal with the transmitted and reflected fields. In this study, numerical results for graphite/epoxy (G/E) and boron/epoxy (B/E) composites are presented to discuss, in detail, the effects of varying the observation distance, number of layers, lamina thickness, fiber conductivity, and fiber orientation pattern, Comparison nit-h the measured results and the previous published ones are also included to confirm the accuracy of this proposed model.