The transient responses of piezoelectric hollow cylinders for axisymmetric plane strain problems

By virtue of the separation of variables technique. the axisymmetric plane strain electroelastic dynamic problem of hollow cylinder is transferred to an integral equation about a function with respect to time, which can be solved successfully by means of the interpolation method. Then the solution of the displacements, stresses, electric displacements and electric potentials are finally obtained. The present method is suitable for the hollow cylinder with arbitrary thickness subjected to arbitrary mechanical and electrical loads. Numerical results are also presented. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.