Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
7169875 | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2014 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
Subsurface crack problems in a cubic piezoelectric material are considered. The problems are formulated as singular integral equations and solved by a direct numerical method. Among normal and parallel cracks, only the parallel cracks with constant electric potential boundary condition imposed on the half-space that permeable and impermeable cracks need to be differentiated. The numerical accuracy of the present results is confirmed by comparing them with known exact solutions. The influence of material properties on the dimensionless electromechanical field intensity factors is found to be through an electromechanical coupling factor introduced in the text.
Related Topics
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Authors
Chun-Ron Chiang,