Ferroelectrics have a spontaneous electrical polarization that is arranged into domains and
can be reversed by an externally-applied field. This high versatility makes them useful in …

Publisher Summary Piezoelectric ceramics can sense and actuate by rapidly converting
mechanical and thermal signals into electrical ones, the reverse also being true. The …

Hard magnetorheological elastomers (h-MREs) are essentially two phase composites
comprising permanently magnetizable metallic inclusions suspended in a soft elastomeric …

Writing a book on smart materials bears a certain semblance to purchasing a high-end
laptop—due to rapid advances in the field, it is tempting to postpone the decision every six …

Three-dimensional x-ray diffraction (3DXRD) microscopy is a novel experimental method for
structural characterisation of polycrystalline materials. The position, morphology, phase …

This paper deals with the constitutive modeling of ferroelectric and ferroelastic
piezoceramics which are of gaining importance for modern sensing and actuation …

Polarization switching in a ferroelectric subjected to an electric field or a stress field is
simulated using a phase-field model based on the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau …

We introduce provably unconditionally stable mixed variational methods for phase-field
models. Our formulation is based on a mixed finite element method for space discretization …

This paper is devoted to the numerical simulation of the Navier–Stokes–Korteweg
equations, a phase-field model for water/water-vapor two-phase flows. We develop a …

A continuum thermodynamics framework is devised to model the evolution of ferroelectric
domain structures. The theory falls into the class of phase-field or diffuse-interface modeling …