Electroelastic intensification and domain switching near a plane strain crack in a rectangular piezoelectric material

Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1525-1540

  Shindo, Yasuhide ^a   Narita, Fumio ^a   Saito, Fumitoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crack; Elasticity; Energy release rate; Finite element method; Piezoelectric material; Polarization switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349138419     PISSN: 15593959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/jomms.2007.2.1525     Document Type: Article

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