Fatigue crack growth law for ferroelectrics under cyclic electrical and combined electromechanical loading

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2485-2494

  Westram, Ilona ^a   Ricoeur, Andreas ^b   Emrich, Andreas ^b   Rödel, Jürgen ^a   Kuna, Meinhard ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cracking; Fatigue; Mechanical properties; Piezoelectric properties; PZT

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; CYCLIC LOADS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LOADS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

DIELECTRIC CRACK CLOSURE EFFECT; LEAD-ZIRCONATE-TITANATE; POWER LAW RELATIONSHIP;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; CYCLIC LOADS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LOADS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33846352858     PISSN: 09552219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2006.09.010     Document Type: Article

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