On the crack-tip stress singularity of interfacial cracks in transversely isotropic piezoelectric bimaterials (Q1434697)

The authors study interface crack-tip stress fields and electric displacement fields in transversely isotropic piezoelectric bimaterials. They prove, within the framework of the generalized Stroh formalism for piezoelectric bimaterials, that there is no coexistence of the parameters \(\varepsilon\) (oscillating) and \(\kappa\) (non-oscillating) in the interface crack-tip generalized stress field for all transversely isotropic bimaterials. Numerical results for some practical piezoelectrical bimaterials are given to show that there still exist four linear independent associate eigenvectors with some values of \(\varepsilon\) and \(\kappa\).