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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MECHANICS A-SOLIDS
Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 455-466Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.euromechsol.2003.12.005
Keywords
piezoelectricity; constitutive relation; rotation gradient; size effect; couple stress
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Some recent experiments evidenced that the piezoelectric coefficients of such piezoelectric materials as PZT and BiTiO3 have an evident dependence on the grain size. With respect to the success of strain gradient theories in interpreting size effect phenomena of conventional (non-piezoelectric) solids and the dependence of piezoelectricity on rotation of polar clusters, a new piezoelectric theory with rotation gradient effects is formulated in the present paper to elucidate the size effect problems of piezoelectric solids. The constitutive relations of materials with different symmetries are specialized, and their corresponding independent material constants are discussed. For the typical 6 mm class of piezoelectric crystalline materials, a potential function method is presented for plane problems. The analytical solution of a thin piezoelectric film bonded on a rigid substrate illustrates the size-dependent prediction of the present theory. (C) 2004 Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.
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