Adaptive isogeometric analysis–based phase-field modeling of interfacial fracture in piezoelectric composites

R Kiran, N Nguyen-Thanh, H Yu, K Zhou - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper implements an adaptive phase-field model to investigate the interfacial fracture in
transversely isotropic piezoelectric composites under different electromechanical loadings …

Modeling Kapitza resistance of two-phase composite material

B He, B Mortazavi, X Zhuang, T Rabczuk - Composite structures, 2016 - Elsevier
We predict the thermal conductivity of polymer-matrix composites accounting for the
interface conductance. We also study the influence of different fillers, ie spherical, cylindrical …

Adaptive wavelet-enhanced cohesive zone phase-field FE model for crack evolution in piezoelectric composites

S Dan, P Tarafder, S Ghosh - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
A novel finite deformation FE model is developed in this paper for coupled electro-
mechanical response with crack evolution in heterogeneous piezoelectric composite …

[HTML][HTML] Role of Computational Material Science in Improving the Properties of Piezoelectric Smart Materials: A Review

RC Kamath - Engineering Proceedings, 2023 - mdpi.com
Piezoelectric smart materials have gained significant attention in various technological
applications due to their ability to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and vice …

The strong and weak forms of a general imperfect interface model for linear coupled multifield phenomena

ST Gu, JT Liu, QC He - International Journal of Engineering Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Imperfect interfaces are present in a variety of practical situations in mechanics and physics.
In particular, they play an essential role in determination of mechanical and physical …

New micromechanics approaches for the effective properties of multiferroics composites with spring-type imperfect interfaces

Y Koutsawa - Composite Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
This study proposed two new micromechanics models to predict the effective properties of
multiferroics composites with spring-type imperfect interfaces. The first model is a full field …

[HTML][HTML] Overall properties of piezoelectric composites with spring-type imperfect interfaces using the mechanics of structure genome

Y Koutsawa - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, the mechanics of structure genome has been extended to piezoelasticity
problem of composite materials with spring-type imperfect interfaces model. This full field …

Micromechanical method for effective piezoelectric properties and electromechanical fields in multi-coated long fiber composites

G Chatzigeorgiou, A Javili, F Meraghni - International Journal of Solids and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a micromechanical framework for identifying the macroscopic behavior
of multi-coated long fiber composites, as well as the average electromechanical microscopic …

Mathematical models and finite element approaches for nanosized piezoelectric bodies with uncoulped and coupled surface effects

VA Eremeyev, AV Nasedkin - Wave Dynamics and Composite Mechanics …, 2017 - Springer
In this chapter the dynamic problems for piezoelectric nanosized bodies with account for
coupled dam** and surface effects are considered. For these problems we propose new …

Homogenization of fibrous piezoelectric composites with general imperfect interfaces under anti-plane mechanical and in-plane electrical loadings

ST Gu, QC He, V Pensée - Mechanics of Materials, 2015 - Elsevier
The present paper aims mainly to estimate the size-dependent effective properties of fibrous
piezoelectric composites with general imperfect interfaces. The interface model used states …