Approximate Green's functions and a boundary element method for electro-elastic analyses of active materials

Computers and Structures

Volumn 66, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 289-299

  Khutoryansky, Naum ^a   Sosa, Horacio ^a   Zu, Wenhong ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active materials; Boundary element method; Green's functions; Piezoelectric ceramics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CERAMIC MATERIALS; ELASTICITY; ELECTRODYNAMICS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; RELIABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ACTIVE MATERIALS; ELECTROELASTICITY;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031625702     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(97)00055-2     Document Type: Article

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