Two-dimensional piezoelectricity. II: General solution, Green's function and interface cracks (Q2500553)

This paper is devoted to the investigation of the general solution of 2-D piezoelectricity by using Green's function. The complete solution space of a piezoelectric material is the sum of several orthogonal eigenspaces one for each distinct eigenvalue. First, it is established the orthogonality of the eigenvectors associated with distinct eigenvalues. Then, the separability of the eigenspaces of abnormal and superabnormal eigenvalues is considered. The present theorems to being spectral ones describe the spectral decomposition of the eight-dimensional complex vector space into orthogonal eigenspaces associated with distinct eigenvalues. The intrinsic geometrical structure of the space is determined by the pseudometrics, but the pseudometrics are not unique and cannot be made unique by normalization, because the complex space has no length or distance measure. Then, based on the classification of piezoelectric materials in 2-D, there are stated 14 different classes of piezoelectrics, each of which has a distinct form of the general solution expressed via eigenvectors of the zeroth and higher orders and a kernel matrix containing analytic functions. Choosing the analytic functions in the kernel matrix to be the logarithmic function, one obtains Green's function of the infinite space as a single \(8 \times 8\) matrix function with line loads, dislocations and line charge at the origin. This expression is valid for all piezoelectric materials regardless of degeneracy. From the Green's function, it may be obtained a derived result for a half space with traction-free boundary condition except for concentrated line loads or dislocation at a boundary point, which is taken to be the origin of the polar coordinates. This last solution is obtained by using an appropriate choice of the parameters. The eigenvalues and eigensolutions are also stated for the biomaterial interface crack problem in which two piezoelectric materials are perfectly bounded along the positive \(x\)-axis and separated by a traction-free and charge-free crack along the negative \(x\)-axis. As a main result of the paper, it is shown that the theories of 2-D anisotropic elasticity, piezoelasticity and coupled anisotropic laminates demonstrate important common features in their essential mathematical structures leading to formally analogous expressions of the eigensolutions, the general solution, the intrinsic matrices and Green's function. For Part I, see Int. J. Solids Struct. 42, No. 9--10, 2645--2668 (2005; Zbl 1165.74320).