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The transient response of two coplanar cracks in a piezoelectric ceramic under antiplane mechanical and inplane electric impacting loads is investigated in the present paper. Laplace and Fourier transforms are used to reduce the mixed boundary value problems to Cauchy-type singular integral equations in Laplace transform domain, which are solved numerically. The dynamic stress and electric displacement factors are obtained as the functions of time and geometry parameters. The present study shows that the presence of the dynamic electric field will impede or enhance the propagation of the crack in piezoelectric ceramics at different stages of the dynamic electromechanical load. Moreover, the electromechanical response is greatly affected by the ratio of the space of the cracks and the crack length.
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Zengtao, C., Shouwen, Y. Transient response of a piezoelectric ceramic with two coplanar cracks under electromechanical impact. Acta Mech Sinica 15, 325–333 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02487930
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02487930