General treatment of mode III interfacial crack problems in piezoelectric materials

Summary  The anti-plane problem of N collinear interfacial cracks between dissimilar transversely isotropic piezoelectric media, which are subjected to piecewise uniform out-of-plane mechanical loading combined with in-plane electric loading at infinity, and also a line loading at an arbitrary point, is addressed by using the complex function method. In comparison with other relevant works, the present study has two features: one is that the analysis is based on the permeable crack model, i.e. the cracks are considered as permeable thin slits, and, thus, both the normal component of electric displacement and the tangential component of electric field are assumed to be continuous across these slits. The other feature is that explicit closed-form solutions are given not only in piezoelectric media, but also inside cracks when the media are subjected to the most general loading. It is shown that the singularities of electric displacement and electric field in the media are always dependent on that of stress for the general case of loading, and all the singularities of field variables are independent of the applied uniform electric loads at infinity. For the interfacial cracks the electric field is square-root singular at the crack tips and shows jumps across the interface, while the normal component of the electric field is linearly variable inside the crack, but the tangential component is square-root singular. However, for a homogeneous medium with collinear cracks, the electric field is always nonsingular in the medium while the electric displacement exhibits square-root singularity. Moreover, in this case, the electric field inside any crack is equal to a constant when uniform loads are applied at infinity. Received 22 November 1999; accepted for publication 20 July 2000     

Exact solutions of two semi-infinite collinear cracks in piezoelectric strip

Using the complex variable function method and the conformal mapping technique,the fracture problem of two semi-infinite collinear cracks in a piezoelectric strip is studied under the anti-plane shear stress and the in-plane electric load on the partial crack surface.Analytic solutions of the field intensity factors and the mechanical strain energy release rate are derived under the assumption that the surfaces of the crack are electrically impermeable.The results can be reduced to the well-known solutio...     

SH 波入射时半空间界面裂纹与圆形衬砌的相互作用

利用复变函数和Green函数法研究了双相介质半空间界面裂纹及界面附近圆形衬砌对SH 波的散射与动应力集中问题。首先,采用映像思想构造满足自由边界条件的散射波表达式,进而求解所需的Green函数;其次,采用裂纹切割技术构造裂纹,并根据连续性条件建立了求解该问题的无穷代数方程组;最后,给出了不同入射波数时界面裂纹与衬砌的相互作用。结果表明,裂纹的存在显著放大了衬砌界面的动应力集中。     

Point forces and point charge applied to a circular crack in a transversely isotropic piezoelectric space

Interaction between an arbitrarily located and oriented point force and point charge with a circular crack is considered. Obtained are the exact expressions for the stress intensity factors (SIFs) k_j (j=1,2,3) and electric displacement intensity factor (EDIF) k_D; they are given in terms of elementary functions. The results are also presented in graphical form.     

Scattering of love waves by an interface crack between a piezoelectric layer and an elastic substrate

The scattering of Love waves by an interface crack between a piezoelectric layer and an elastic substrate is investigated by using the integral transform and singular integral equation techniques. The dynamic stress intensity factors of the left and the right crack tips are determined. It is found from numerical calculation that the dynamic response of the system depends significantly on the crack configuration, the material combination and the propagating direction of the incident wave. It is expected that specifying an appropriate material combination may retard the growth of the crack for a certain crack configuration. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 19891180), the Fundamental Research Foundation of Tsinghua University (JZ 2000.007) and the Fund of the Education Ministry of China.     

Fracture analysis on a layered multiferroic smart structure containing non-periodic interfacial cracks under magnetic/electric and mechanical loadings

The problems of periodic cracks have been widely solved in existing literature of fracture mechanics. Although the assumption of periodicity facilitates the theoretical derivation, practical multiple cracks in most cases are not periodically distributed in materials and structures. The present article performs fracture analysis on a piezoelectric/piezomagnetic/piezoelectric (PE/PM/PE) tri-layered smart structure containing nonperiodic interfacial cracks under magnetic/electric and mechanical loadings. The methods of dislocation simulation, Green's function and Cauchy singular integral equations are employed to solve the problem. Stress intensity factors (SIFs) are numerically calculated, and parametric studies are conducted to demonstrate the variation laws of SIFs versus geometrical parameters. The obtained conclusions may provide references for the optimal design of PE/PM/PE smart structures.     

孔边裂纹对SH波的散射及其动应力强度因子

采用Ｇｒｅｅｎ函数法研究任意有限长度的孔边裂纹对ＳＨ波的散射和裂纹尖端场动应力强度因子的求解．取含有半圆形缺口的弹性半空间水平表面上任意一点承受时间谐和的出平面线源荷载作用时位移函数的基本解作为Ｇｒｅｅｎ函数,采用裂纹“切割”方法并根据连接条件建立起问题的定解积分方程,得到动应力强度因子的封闭解答．最后给出了孔边裂纹动应力强度因子的算例和结果,并讨论了圆孔的存在对动应力强度因子的影响     

Thermal fracture analysis of nonhomogeneous piezoelectric materials using an interaction energy integral method

This paper presents a modified interaction energy integral method to analyze the thermal stress intensity factors (TSIFs) and electric displacement intensity factor (EDIF) in nonhomogeneous piezoelectric materials under thermal loading. This modified method is demonstrated to be domain-independent, even when the nonhomogeneous piezoelectric materials contain interfaces with thermo-electro-mechanical properties. As a result, the method is shown to be convenient for determining the TSIFs and EDIF in nonhomogeneous piezoelectric materials with interfaces. Several examples are shown, and they successfully verify the domain-independence of the present interaction energy integral. The study results also show that the mismatch of material properties can significantly influence the TSIFs and EDIF, particularly when the crack tip is close to the interface. Crack angles and temperature boundary conditions are also shown to significantly influence the TSIFs and EDIF.     

General solutions of plane problem for power function curved cracks

A new exact and universal conformal mapping is proposed. Using Muskhelishvili's complex potential method, the plane elasticity problem of power function curved cracks is investigated with an arbitrary power of a natural number, and the general solutions of the stress intensity factors (SIFs) for mode I and mode II at the crack tip are obtained under the remotely uniform tensile loads. The present results can be reduced to the well-known solutions when the power of the function takes different natural numbers. Numerical examples are conducted to reveal the effects of the coefficient, the power, and the projected length along the x-axis of the power function curved crack on the SIFs for mode I and mode II.