Solution Methods for Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Materials

Abstract

In the previous two chapters Saint-Venant decay and penny-shaped crack problems were discussed. The material properties of the piezoelectric materials considered there were homogeneous or piecewise homogeneous. This chapter presents solution methods for piezoelectric materials with continuously varying properties. It focuses on problems of an angularly graded piezoelectric wedge, solutions for FGPM beams, problems of parallel cracks in an FGPM strip, and mode cracks in a two-bonded FGPM.