This paper is concerned with the electro-elastic analysis of a conducting rigid line inclusion at the interface of two bonded piezoelectric materials. By combining the analytic function theory and the Stroh formalism, we were able to obtain closed-form expressions for the field variables. Both the mechanical stresses and the electric displacement are shown to have at least one of the following behaviors: (i) traditional square root singularity; (ii) nonsquare root singularity; and (iii) oscillatory singularity, which depend upon the electro-elastic mismatch at the interface. By using the static equilibrium conditions, the rigid rotation vector of the inclusion is determined and the extended stress singularity factors (ESSF) are evaluated.

Issue Section:
Technical Papers
Topics:
Piezoelectric materials, Displacement, Equilibrium (Physics), Rotation, Stress, Stress singularity
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