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

This paper reviews the historical investigation and state-of-the-art developments of the M-
integral and corresponding applications, from five key perspectives. Firstly, the origin of the …

Piezoelectric Fiber Composites were previously introduced as an alternative to monolithic
piezoceramic wafers for structural actuation applications. This manuscript was an …

To obtain a better understanding of the effects of electric fields on the fatigue lifetime of PZT
materials, specimens of poled and unpoled PZT-8 were either pre-indented to generate a …

The effects of crack face boundary conditions on the fracture mechanics of piezoelectric
solids are studied. In previous works the assumption that in addition to being traction free, a …

The problem of a piezoelectric body with an elliptic cavity is revisited within the frame-work
of two-dimensional electro-elasticity. In contrast to our previous formulation, the present …

The present paper extends Eshelby's tensors for elastic isotropic inclusions to the
piezoelectric cases. By utilizing the eigenstrain formulation and Cauchy's residue theorem, a …

The two-dimensional problem of an elliptic hole in a solid of anisotropic piezoelectric
material is studied. The Stroh formalism is adopted here. Real form solutions are obtained …

An analysis is performed for the transient response of a semi-infinite, anti-plane crack
propagating in a hexagonal piezoelectric medium. The mixed boundary value problem is …

An elliptical inclusion embedded in an infinite 1D hexagonal piezoelectric quasicrystal
matrix is analysed in the framework of linear piezoelasticity of quasicrystals. Using the …