Phase field simulations of a permeable crack parallel to the original polarization direction in a ferroelectric mono-domain

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 75, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4886-4897

  Wang, Jie ^a   Zhang, Tong Yi ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CRACK TIPS; FERROELECTRICITY; OPTICAL SWITCHES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

APPLIED LOADING; J INTEGRALS; MECHANICAL LOADS; MONO-DOMAIN; PHASE-FIELD SIMULATIONS; POLARIZATION DIRECTIONS; POLARIZATION SWITCHING; SIMULATION RESULTS; TIME-DEPENDENT GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATIONS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 52749098652     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2008.06.025     Document Type: Article

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