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Multidomain boundary integral formulation for piezoelectric materials fracture mechanics

Giuseppe Davi, +1 more
- 01 Oct 2001 - 
- Vol. 38, Iss: 40, pp 7065-7078
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In this article, a boundary element method and its numerical implementation for the analysis of piezoelectric materials are presented with the aim to exploit their features in linear electroelastic fracture mechanics.
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This article is published in International Journal of Solids and Structures.The article was published on 2001-10-01. It has received 82 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Boundary element method & Fracture mechanics.

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Anisotropic and piezoelectric materials fracture analysis by BEM

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed boundary element approach for two-dimensional anisotropic and piezoelectric fracture mechanics problems is presented, which is based on displacement and traction integral equations for external and crack boundaries, respectively.
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3-D and 2-D Dynamic Green's functions and time-domain BIEs for piezoelectric solids

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived time-harmonic and Laplace transformed dynamic Green's functions for linear piezoelectric solids by using Radon transform and applied the Fourier and the Laplace transform to the time-domain Green's function.
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Three-step multi-domain BEM solver for nonhomogeneous material problems.

TL;DR: In this article, a three-step solution technique is presented for solving two-dimensional and three-dimensional (3D) nonhomogeneous material problems using the multi-domain boundary element method.
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Fracture Analyses in Continuously Nonhomogeneous Piezoelectric Solids by the MLPG

TL;DR: In this paper, a meshless method based on the local Petrov-Galerkin approach is proposed for crack analysis in two-dimensional and three-dimensional axisymmetric piezoelectric solids with continuously varying material properties.
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Evaluation of fracture parameters in continuously nonhomogeneous piezoelectric solids

TL;DR: In this paper, a meshless method based on the local Petrov-Galerkin approach is applied for computation of physical fields occurring in the contour integral expressions of intensity factors.
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Use of piezoelectric actuators as elements of intelligent structures

TL;DR: In this paper, a scaling analysis is performed to demonstrate that the effectiveness of actuators is independent of the size of the structure and evaluate various piezoelectric materials based on their effectiveness in transmitting strain to the substructure.
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Fracture mechanics for piezoelectric ceramics

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study cracks either in piezoelectrics, or on interfaces between the materials such as metal electrodes or polymer matrices, and derive the macroscopic field regarding the crack tip as a physically structureless point.
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Finite element method for piezoelectric vibration

TL;DR: In this paper, a finite element formulation which includes the piezoelectric or electroelastic effect is given, a strong analogy is exhibited between electric and elastic variables, and a stiffness finite element method is deduced.
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