Nucleation and growth of domains near crack tips in single crystal ferroelectrics

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1505-1513

  Li, Wenyuan ^a   Landis, Chad M ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain nucleation and growth; Ferroelectrics; Fracture; J integral; Phase field modeling

Indexed keywords

APPLIED ELECTRIC FIELD; APPLIED STRESS; DOMAIN NUCLEATION; DOMAIN SWITCHINGS; EQUILIBRIUM DOMAIN; FERROELECTRIC SINGLE CRYSTALS; FERROELECTRICS; J INTEGRAL; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; ORDER PARAMETER; PHASE-FIELD APPROACHES; PHASE-FIELD MODELING; POLARIZATION GRADIENTS; STATIONARY CRACK; THEORETICAL MODELING;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUCLEATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLARIZATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CRACK TIPS;

EID: 79954620596     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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