Fracture resistance of a doped PZT ceramic for multilayer piezoelectric actuators: Effect of mechanical load and temperature

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 705-712

  Bermejo, Raul ^a   Grünbichler, Hannes ^a,b   Kreith, Josef ^a,b   Auer, Christoph ^c  

^a INSTITUT FÜR STRUKTUR UND FUNKTIONSKERAMIK   (Austria)

^b MATERIALS CENTER LEOBEN FORSCHUNG GMBH   (Austria)

^c EPCOS OHG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Actuators; Fracture; PZT; Thermo mechanical compression test; Toughness and toughening

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY EFFECT; DEPOLARISATION; DOMAIN SWITCHINGS; FRACTURE RESISTANCE; INDENTATION METHOD; LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE CERAMICS; MECHANICAL LOADING; MECHANICAL LOADS; MULTI-LAYERED; MULTILAYER ACTUATORS; MULTILAYER PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR; PIEZOCERAMIC; PZT; PZT CERAMICS; PZT MATERIALS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRESS-INDUCED; THERMO-MECHANICAL; THERMO-MECHANICAL LOADING; TOUGHNESS AND TOUGHENING;

CERAMIC CAPACITORS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPRESSION TESTING; DEPOLARIZATION; FRACTURE; MULTILAYERS; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 70449697929     PISSN: 09552219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2009.08.013     Document Type: Article

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