Antiplane mechanical and inplane electric time-dependent load applied to two coplanar cracks in piezoelectric ceramic material

This work is concerned with the dynamic response of two coplanar cracks in a piezoelectric ceramic under antiplane mechanical and inplane electric time-dependent load. The cracks are assumed to act either as an insulator or as a conductor. Laplace and Fourier transforms are used to reduce the mixed boundary value problems to Cauchy-type singular integral equations in Laplace transform domain. A numerical Laplace inversion algorithm is used to determine the dynamic stress and electric displacement factors that depend on time and geometry. A normalized equivalent parameter describing the ratio of the equivalent magnitude of electric load to that of mechanical load is introduced in the numerical computation of the dynamic stress intensity factor (DSIF) which has a similar trend as that for the pure elastic material. The results show that the dynamic electric field will impede or enhance crack propagation in a piezoelectric ceramic material at different stages of the dynamic electromechanical load. Moreover, the electromechanical response is greatly affected by the ratio of the crack length to the ligament between the cracks. The stress and electric displacement intensity factor can be combined by the energy density factor or function to address the fracture of piezoelectric materials under the combined influence of electromechanical loading.     

A crack in a piezoelectric layer bonded to a dissimilar elastic layer under transient load

Summary  A piezoelectric layer bonded to the surface of an elastic structure is considered. The piezoelectric and the elastic layers are infinite along the x-axis and have finite thickness in the y-direction. The polarization direction of the piezoelectric material is along the y-axis. By means of the method of singular integral equations, the solution in a Laplace transform plane is demonstrated. Laplace inversion yields the results in the time domain. Numerical values of the crack tip fields under in-plane transient electromechanical loading are obtained. The influence of layers thickness on stress and electric displacement intensity factors is investigated. Received 16 March 2000; accepted for publication 16 August 2000     

Transient response of a piezoelectric ceramic with two coplanar cracks under electromechanical impact

The transient response of two coplanar cracks in a piezoelectric ceramic under antiplane mechanical and inplane electric impacting loads is investigated in the present paper. Laplace and Fourier transforms are used to reduce the mixed boundary value problems to Cauchy-type singular integral equations in Laplace transform domain, which are solved numerically. The dynamic stress and electric displacement factors are obtained as the functions of time and geometry parameters. The present study shows that the presence of the dynamic electric field will impede or enhance the propagation of the crack in piezoelectric ceramics at different stages of the dynamic electromechanical load. Moreover, the electromechanical response is greatly affected by the ratio of the space of the cracks and the crack length.     

An antisymmetric problem of a penny-shaped crack in a piezoelectric medium

Summary  An exact, three-dimensional analysis is developed for a penny-shaped crack in an infinite transversely isotropic piezoelectric medium. The crack is assumed to be parallel to the plane of isotropy, with its faces subjected to a couple of concentrated normal forces and a couple of point electric charges that are antisymmetric with respect to the crack plane. The fundamental solution of a concentrated force and a point charge acting on the surface of a piezoelectric half-space is employed to derive the integral equations for the general boundary value problem. For the above antisymmetric crack problem, complete expressions for the elastoelectric field are obtained. A numerical calculation is finally performed to show the piezoelectric effect in piezoelectric materials. It is noted here that the present analysis is an extension of Fabrikant's theory for elasticity. Received 30 August 1999; accepted for publication 1 March 2000     

TRANSIENT RESPONSE OF COPLANAR INTERFACIAL CRACKS BETWEEN TWO DISSIMILAR PIEZOELECTRIC STRIPS UNDER ANTI-PLANE MECHANICAL AND IN-PLANE ELECTRICAL IMPACTS

The dynamic response of multiple coplanar interface cracks between two dissimilar piezoelectric strips subjected to mechanical and electrical impacts is investigated. Solutions to two kinds of electric boundary conditions on crack surfaces, i.e. electric impermeable and electric permeable, are obtained. Laplace and Fourier transforms and dislocation density functions are employed to reduce the mixed boundary value problem to Cauchy singular integral equations,which can be solved numerically. The effects of electrical load, geometry criterion of piezoelectric strips, relative location of cracks and material properties on the dynamic energy release rate are examined.     

Transient dynamic response of a coated piezoelectric strip with a vertical crack

In this study, the dynamic response of a coated piezoelectric strip containing a crack vertical to the interfaces under normal impact load is considered. Based on the superposition principle and the integral transform techniques, the solution in the Laplace transformed plane is obtained in terms of a singular integral equation. The order of stress singularity around the tip of the terminated crack is also obtained. The singular integral equation is solved by using the Gauss–Jacobi integration formula, and the numerical Laplace inversion is then carried out to obtain the resulting dynamic stress and electric displacement intensities. The effects of the material properties and the geometric parameters on the dynamic stress intensity factor and the dynamic energy density factors are shown graphically.     

Accurate modelling of piezoelectric plates: single-layered plate

Summary  The paper presents an efficient two-dimensional approach to piezoelectric plates in the framework of linear theory of piezoelectricity. The approximation of the through-the-thickness variations accounts for the shear effects and a refinement of the electric potential. Using a variational formalism, electromechanically coupled plate equations are obtained for the generalized stress resultants as well as for the generalized electric inductions. The latter are deduced from the conservative electric charge equation, which plays a crucial role in the present model. Emphasis is placed on the boundary conditions at the plate faces. The model is used to examine some problems for cylindrical bending of a single simply supported plate. Number of situations are examined for a piezoelectric plate subject to (i) an applied electric potential, (ii) a surface density of force, and (iii) a surface density of electric charge. The through-thickness distributions of electromechanical quantities (displacements, stresses, electric potential and displacement) are obtained, and compared with results provided by finite element simulations and by a simplified plate model without shear effects. A good agreement is observed between the results coming from the present plate model and finite element computations, which ascertains the effectiveness of the proposed approach to piezoelectric plates. Received 17 July 2000; accepted for publication 26 September 2000     

Theoretical transient analysis and wave propagation of piezoelectric bi-materials

The transient response of piezoelectric bi-materials subjected to a dynamic anti-plane concentrated force or electric charge with perfectly bonded interface is examined in the present study. The problem is solved by using the Laplace transform method and the inverse Laplace transform is evaluated by means of Cagniard’s method. Exact transient full-field solutions of the contribution for each wave are expressed in explicit closed forms. The transient behavior of field quantities is examined in detail by numerical calculations. The existence condition of a propagating surface wave along the interface is discussed in detail. A surface wave can be guided by the interface of two semi-infinite materials in contact if one, at least, of these two materials is piezoelectric. The propagation velocity of the surface wave is explicitly expressed and is found to be less than the lower shear wave velocity of the two materials. The existence of the surface wave for piezoelectric–piezoelectric bi-materials is restricted to the situation that the shear waves of the two piezoelectric materials are very close. The possibility for the existence of the surface wave for piezoelectric–elastic bi-materials is much greater than that of the piezoelectric–piezoelectric bi-materials.     

Generalized Bleustein-Gulyaev type waves in layered porous piezoceramic structure

The propagation of a Bleustein-Gulyaev (B-G) type wave in a structure consisting of multiple layers and a half-space of porous piezoelectric materials is theoretically studied. The solutions of the problem in terms of the mechanical displacements and electric potential functions are obtained for each layer and the half-space. The dispersion equation is obtained for electrically open and shorted boundary conditions by use of the transfer matrix method. A peculiar kind of B-G waves is investigated, which can propagate only in the layer over the half-space. The relationship between the piezoelectric constants and the dielectric constants is found for the existence of a peculiar kind of propagation modes. The numerical results in terms of the phase velocity and the electromechanical coupling factor with different thicknesses of the layer stack are presented.     

Magneto–thermo–electro–elastic transient response in a piezoelectric hollow cylinder subjected to complex loadings

The article presents an analytical solution for magneto–thermo–electro–elastic problems of a piezoelectric hollow cylinder placed in an axial magnetic field subjected to arbitrary thermal shock, mechanical load and transient electric excitation. Using an interpolation method solves the Volterra integral equation of the second kind caused by interaction among magnetic, thermal, electric and mechanical fields, the electric displacement is determined. Thus, the exact expressions for the transient responses of displacement, stresses, electric displacement, electric potential and perturbation of the magnetic field vector in the piezoelectric hollow cylinder are obtained by means of Hankel transforms, Laplace transforms, and inverse Laplace transforms. From sample numerical calculations, it is seen that the present method is suitable for a piezoelectric hollow cylinder subjected to arbitrary thermal shock, mechanical load and transient electric excitation, and the result carried out may be used as a reference to solve other transient coupled problems of magneto–thermo–electro–elasticity.     

On diffraction of acoustic and electric waves in piezoelectric medium by an absorbent half-plane electrode

Diffraction of incident acoustic and incident electric waves in a transversally isotropic piezoelectric medium at the boundary of a half-plane absorbent electrode is systematically investigated using the quasi-hyperbolic approximation. The electrode is assumed to be very thin so that its thickness and stiffness can be neglected. By exact inversion, the explicit expressions for the scattering waves are obtained. A closed form solution is obtained by applying Laplace transformations and the Wiener–Hopf technique. By means of the Cagniard–de Hoop method a detailed investigation of the structure of the electro-acoustic wave is conducted. The mode conversion between electric and acoustic waves, the effect of electro-acoustic head wave, the Bleustein–Gulyaev surface wave and the structure of the wave in terms of the type of the incident wave (acoustic or electric) and its angle of incidence are analyzed in detail. It is shown that in piezoelectric materials, absorbent electrodes are neither completely opaque nor completely transparent to electric and acoustic waves. The dynamic field intensity factors at the tip of the electrode are functions of the angle of incidence and time; they are derived explicitly and discussed through a detailed numerical analysis.     

Inclined circular flat punch on a transversely isotropic piezoelectric half-space

Summary Utilizing the general solution of transversely isotropic piezoelectricity, the paper analyzes the problem of an inclined rigid circular flat punch indenting a transversely isotropic piezoelectric half-space. The potential theory method is employed and generalized to take into account the effect of the electric field in piezoelectric materials. Assuming that the punch is maintained at a constant electric potential, exact expressions for the elastoelectric field are derived in terms of elementary functions. It is noted that the solution corresponding to a flat circular punch centrally loaded by a concentrated force can be obtained as a special case. Received 15 December 1998; accepted for publication 9 March 1999     

半空间饱和土中圆柱形衬砌内荷载引起的动力响应解答

地下衬砌结构经常会受到内部动荷载的作用,内荷载引起的衬砌结构的动应力集中备受关注。采用Laplace变换和波函数展开法,对半空间饱和土中均布突加荷载作用下圆柱形衬砌结构的动力响应进行了研究。对以大半径凸圆弧来近似半空间表面,将半空间饱和土中的波动方程展开成无穷级数的形式,应用Graff加法公式进行坐标变换,根据连续条件和边界条件,确定波函数展开式中的未知系数,求得了半空间饱和土中均布突加荷载作用下圆柱形衬砌的动力响应解答,讨论了衬砌埋深对圆柱形衬砌动力响应的影响。该问题的求解,为地下结构的动力分析提供了一种有效方法。     

Griffith crack moving in a piezoelectric strip

Summary  The dynamic problem of an impermeable crack of constant length 2a propagating along a piezoelectric ceramic strip is considered under the action of uniform anti-plane shear stress and uniform electric field. The integral transform technique is employed to reduce the mixed-boundary-value problem to a singular integral equation. For the case of a crack moving in the mid-plane, explicit analytic expressions for the electroelastic field and the field intensity factors are obtained, while for an eccentric crack moving along a piezoelectric strip, numerical results are determined via the Lobatto–Chebyshev collocation method for solving a resulting singular integral equation. The results reveal that the electric-displacement intensity factor is independent of the crack velocity, while other field intensity factors depend on the crack velocity when referred to the moving coordinate system. If the crack velocity vanishes, the present results reduce to those for a stationary crack in a piezoelectric strip. In contrast to the results for a stationary crack, applied stress gives rise to a singular electric field and applied electric field results in a singular stress for a moving crack in a piezoelectric strip. Received 14 August 2001; accepted for publication 24 September 2002 The author is indebted to the AAM Reviewers for their helpful suggestions for improving this paper. The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 70272043.     

Electroelastic State of a Piezoelectric Half-Space with Holes and Cracks Under an Electric Field

International Applied Mechanics - The two-dimensional problem of electroelasticity for a piezoelectric half-space with cylindrical cavities and plane cracks under a distant electric field is...     

Dynamic interaction of multiple arbitrarily oriented planar cracks in a piezoelectric space: A semi-analytic solution

The problem of determining the electro-elastic fields around arbitrarily oriented planar cracks in an infinite piezoelectric space is considered. The cracks which are acted upon by a transient load are either electrically impermeable or permeable. A semi-analytic method based on the theory of exponential Fourier transformation is proposed for solving the problem in the Laplace transform domain. The Laplace transforms of the jumps in the displacements and electric potential across opposite crack faces are determined by solving a system of hypersingular integral equations. Once these displacement and electric potential jumps are obtained, the displacements and electric potential and other physical quantities of interest, such as the crack tip stress and electric displacement intensity factors, can be computed with the help of a suitable algorithm for inverting Laplace transforms. The stress and electric displacement intensity factors are computed for some specific cases of the problem.     

Two-temperature theory in generalized magneto-thermoelasticity with two relaxation times

The model of one-dimensional equations of the two-temperature generalized magneto-thermoelasticity theory with two relaxation times in a perfect electric conducting medium is established. The state space approach developed in Ezzat (Can J. Phys. Rev. 86(11):1241–1250, 2008) is adopted for the solution of one-dimensional problems. The resulting formulation together with the Laplace transform techniques are applied to a specific problem of a half-space subjected to thermal shock and traction-free surface. The inversion of the Laplace transforms is carried out using a numerical approach. Some comparisons have been shown in figures to estimate the effects of the temperature discrepancy and the applied magnetic field.     

The contact problem of electroelasticity for a flat punch with parabolic cross-section

The solution of the problem of a rigid punch with a parabolic cross-section and flat base that is forced into an elastic piezoelectric ceramic half-space is derived in explicit form. The punch is somewhat displaced, being parallel to the isotropy plane that coincides with the boundary surface of the half-space. The symmetry axis coincides with the direction of the force lines of the field with the previous polarization. Formulas are derived to determine the stresses on the surface of the half-space under the punch and the components of the conjugate electric field for certain boundary conditions on the contact area. S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 35, No. 11, pp. 20–26, November, 1999.     

Thermo-electro-elastic transient responses in piezoelectric hollow structures

The paper presents an analytical method to solve thermo-electro-elastic transient response in piezoelectric hollow structures subjected to arbitrary thermal shock, sudden mechanical load and electric excitation. Volterra integral equation of the second kind caused by interaction between elastic deformation and electric field is solved by using an interpolation method. Thus, the exact expressions for the transient responses of displacement, stresses, electric displacement and electric potential in the piezoelectric hollow structures are obtained by means of Hankel transform, Laplace transform, and their inverse transforms. In Section 2, based on spherical coordinates, the governing equation of thermo-electro-elastic transient responses in a piezoelectric hollow sphere is found and the associated numerical results are carried out. In Section 3, based on cylindrical coordinates, the governing equation of thermo-electro-elastic transient responses in a non-homogeneous piezoelectric hollow cylinder is found and the corresponding numerical results are carried out. The results carried out may be used as a reference to solve other transient coupled problems of thermo-electro-elasticity in piezoelectric structures.     

压电材料反平面裂纹自相似扩展分析

通过对耦合的波动方程和方程解耦,用自模拟方法研究了压电材料中反平面裂纹的自相似扩展问题。研究表明：对反平面问题,介质内的耦合场与裂纹扩展速度有关,在裂纹尖端有r^-1/2阶的奇异性;动态应力强度因子与电位称载荷有关,与静态结论不同;电位移强度因子与机械载 荷无关,与静态结果的表达形式一致。