...K. Y. Volokh Permittivity of electroactive elastomers alters during deformation. The influence of the permittivity alterations on the electrostriction of elastomers is studied in the present work. Particularly, acrylic elastomer VHB 4910 is considered. A polarization–electric field constitutive...

... found by means of the extrapolation method. In addition, a crack parallel to the poling direction in a four-point bend specimen subjected to both an applied load and an electric field was analyzed and different electric permittivity values in the crack gap were assumed. It is seen that the electric...

...Q. Li; Y. H. Chen A semi-permeable interface crack in infinite elastic dielectric/piezoelectric bimaterials under combined electric and mechanical loading is studied by using the Stroh complex variable theory. Attention is focused on the influence induced from the permittivity of the medium inside...

...Q. Li; Y. H. Chen A semi-permeable interface crack in dissimilar piezoelectric materials is studied in detail. Attention is focused on the influence induced from the permittivity of the medium inside the crack gap on the near-tip singularity and the crack tip energy release rate (ERR). The Stroh...

...Chun-Ron Chiang; George J. Weng By means of the Hankel transform and dual-integral equations, the nonlinear response of a penny-shaped dielectric crack with a permittivity κ 0 in a transversely isotropic piezoelectric ceramic is solved under the applied tensile stress σ z A and electric...

... field inside the crack are determined, and the results are in exact agreement with those in the literature if the two constituents of the bimaterial media are identical. The effects from mechanical and electro-magnetic property mismatches, such as differences in the stiffness, electric permittivity...

... 32 , d 36 , d 33 is piezoelectric coefficient, and D z and κ 33 ε   κ 33 σ are the electric displacement and the permittivity coefficient in the transverse direction, respectively. The average thickness strain can...

... front and field intensity factors are determined. Numerical results for a cracked PZT-5H ceramic are evaluated to examine the influence of the dielectric permittivity of the crack interior on the field intensity factors, indicating that the electric boundary conditions at the crack surfaces play...

... of a finite crack in a strip of a functionally graded piezoelectric material is studied. It is assumed that the variations of the elastic stiffness, piezoelectric constant, and dielectric permittivity be continuously varying along the thickness of the strip and the strip is under antiplane mechanical loading...

...T.-H. Hao In this paper, the displacement boundary value problem of a piezoelectric material plane with an elliptic hole is studied. As the permittivity of the medium in the hole is far less than that of the piezoelectric material, the electric induction of the medium is negligible. An exact...