Strength and fractography of piezoceramic multilayer stacks

Key Engineering Materials

Volumn 290, Issue , 2005, Pages 46-53

  Supancic, P ^a,b   Wang, Z ^a   Harrer, W ^a   Reichmann, K ^c   Danzer, R ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT FÜR STRUKTUR UND FUNKTIONSKERAMIK   (Austria)

^b MATERIALS CENTER LEOBEN FORSCHUNG GMBH   (Austria)

^c EPCOS OHG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fractography; Microstructure; Piezoceramics; Strength

Indexed keywords

FRACTOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURE; MULTILAYERS; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSILE TESTING;

ELECTROMECHANICAL CONVERTER; FRACTURE SURFACES; METALLIC ELECTRODES;

PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS;

EID: 34249748757     PISSN: 10139826     EISSN: 16629795     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/0-87849-973-3.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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