“…In recent years, research on quasi-static and dynamic fracture of magneto-electro-thermo-elastic solids has drawn considerable attention because of the rapid development of this new kind of multifunctional materials for various engineering applications (e.g., Mai, 2003, 2007;Gao et al, 2003aGao et al, ,b, 2004aIng and Wang, 2004a,b;Yang, 2004;Li and Yang, 2005;Niraula and Wang, 2006;Feng and Su, 2006;Feng et al, 2007a,b). As reviewed by Chen and Lu (2003), invariant integrals are attractive candidates for fracture criteria, but the main difficulty lies in the fundamental discrepancy between theoretical prediction and experimental observation on crack growth in piezoelectric materials.…”