Micromechanical modeling of switching effects in piezoelectric materials - A robust coupled finite element approach

Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 983-999

  Arockiarajan, Arunachalakasi ^a   Menzel, Andreas ^a   Delibas, Buelent ^a   Seemann, Wolfgang ^b  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

coupled problems; domain switching; ferroelasticity; ferroelectricity; finite elements; intergranular effects; piezoelectricity

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BARRIERS; FERROELECTRICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROMECHANICS; ROBUST CONTROL;

COUPLED PROBLEMS; DOMAIN SWITCHING; FERROELASTICITY; INTERGRANULAR EFFECTS;

PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 34548162629     PISSN: 1045389X     EISSN: 15308138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1045389X06074117     Document Type: Article

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