Fracture and fatigue of ferroelectrics under electric and mechanical loading

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1361-1369

  Yang, W ^a   Zhu, T ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Domain switch; Fatigue; Ferroelectrics; Fracture

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COERCIVE FORCE; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON RATIO; POLARIZATION; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

DOMAIN POLARIZATION DIRECTION; ELECTRIC FATIGUE; MECHANICAL LOADING; SMALL SCALE SWITCHING MODEL;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0032201691     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1998.00107.x     Document Type: Article

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