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ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS
Volume 71, Issue 18, Pages 2567-2587Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2004.03.003
Keywords
piezoelectric fracture; permeable cracks; finite element method; capacitor analogy; crack weight function; DCB specimen
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The focus of this paper is not the well-known and examined behavior of electrically impermeable and fully permeable cracks but the analysis of limited permeable cracks, i.e. the influence of a dielectric medium inside the crack. The boundary conditions of the impermeable or the fully permeable crack can be considered as simple approximations representing upper and lower bounds for the electrical energy penetrating the crack. In this paper, the accuracy of a known theoretical approach capacitor analogy for analyzing limited permeable cracks in piezoelectric ceramics is verified by means of numerical methods and analytical estimations. Different crack configurations in 2D and 3D are analyzed. The cracks are subjected to combined electrical and mechanical loads, which lead to a mixed Mode loading in Mode-I and Mode-IV. The influence of errors committed by the capacitor analogy approaching the crack tip is investigated using piezoelectric crack weight functions and special finite element techniques meshing the medium inside the crack. The numerical results of stress intensity factors, obtained by the crack tip element method which is valid for loaded crack faces, are presented. Finally, the theory is applied to the evaluation of a fracture experiment with a DCB specimen. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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