The governing equations of bending analysis of a sandwich microbeam are derived in this article. The sandwich microbeam includes an elastic micro-core and two piezoelectric micro face-sheets. The microbeam is subjected to transverse loads and two-dimensional electric potential. Higher-order sinusoidal shear deformation beam theory is used for description of displacement field. To account for size dependency in governing equations of bending, strain gradient theory is used to mention higher-order stress and strains. An analytical approach for simply supported sandwich microbeam with short-circuited electric potential is proposed. The numerical results indicate that various types of parameters such as foundation, material and loads parameters have significant effect on the bending results. Comparison of valid references is performed to validate our numerical results. The numerical results indicate that maximum displacement and electric potential are approximately insensitive to applied voltage unlike to beam rotation and beam higher-order rotation of sandwich microbeam that are changed with applied voltage.
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