Mixed Electrical Conditions on Interface Inclusion in a Piezoelectric Bimaterial under Antiplane Mechanical and Inplane Electric Loadings

Abstract EN

An absolutely rigid interface inclusion in a bimaterial piezoelectric space under the action of antiplane mechanical and in-plane electric loadings is analyzed.

One zone of the inclusion is electrically insulated while the other part is electrically permeable.

This problem is important for engineering application, but it has not been solved earlier in an analytical way.

Presenting all electromechanical quantities via sectionally analytic vector functions, the combined Dirichlet-Riemann boundary value problem is formulated.

An exact analytical solution of this problem is obtained.

Closed form analytical expressions for electromechanical quantities at the interface are derived.

Some of these values are also presented graphically along the corresponding parts of the material interface.

Singular points of the shear strain and the electric displacement are found and the corresponding intensity factors are determined as well.