The fabrication of a mechanically flexible, piezoelectric nanocomposite material for strain
sensing applications is reported. Nanocomposite material consisting of zinc oxide (ZnO) …

Structural reliability concerns of various electromechanical devices call for a better
understanding of the mechanisms of fracture in piezoelectric ceramics subjected to …

Accurate numerical modeling of multifield piezoelectric materials is challenging because of
the inherent electro-mechanical coupling effect and material anisotropic behaviors. The …

Piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials have gained extensive applications in
electromechanical devices, microelectromechanical systems and smart composite materials …

Cracks and fracture in piezoelectrics Page 135 ADVANCES IN APPLIED MECHANICS,
VOLUME 39 Cracks and Fracture in Piezoelectrics YI-HENG CHENª and TIAN JIAN LUb School …

While the theory and application of finite elements methods can be extended to
incompatible, hybrid, and mixed element methods, important issues, such as determining …

A simplifying macroscopic constitutive law for ferroelectric and ferroelastic hysteresis effects
of piezoceramics is presented. After summarizing the uniaxial formulation motivated …

Crack propagation in a piezoelectric lead–zirconium–titanate (PZT) material under
simultaneous mechanical loading and applied electric fields is studied using the Vickers …

A phase-field model is presented for modeling the fracture of piezoelectric ceramics. The
implementation of several different crack face boundary conditions, including conducting …

A theoretical fracture mechanics for brittle piezoelectric materials is summarized consistent
with standard features of elasticity and dielectricity. The influence of electric field and …