“…Nevertheless, the main difficulty lies in the fundamental discrepancy between theoretical prediction and experimental observation on the conventional (insulating, unelectroded) crack behavior in piezoelectric materials, as reviewed by Zhang et al (2002), Chen and Lu (2003) and Zhang and Gao (2004). Numerous attempts at reconciling theoretical models with experimental data have been made (e.g., Park and Sun, 1995a,b;Zhang and Tong, 1996;Gao et al, 1997;Fulton and Gao, 2001;McMeeking, 2001McMeeking, , 2004Li, 2003;Gao et al, 2004;Zhang et al, 2005;Haug and McMeeking, 2006;Gao et al, 2008;Zhao and Fan, 2008;Li et al, 2008). Chen (2009a) recently proposed a new formation of the energy flux integral and the energy-momentum tensor for studying the crack driving force in electro-elastodynamic fracture and showed that the dynamic energy release rate thus obtained has an odd dependence on the electric displacement intensity factor, which is in agreement with experimental evidence.…”