Also, experiments are performed on commercially available MFCs under electrical load in various thermal environments to evaluate the coupling constants.
Determination of deformation of a microphone membrane under electrical loads (varying voltage) is of fundamental importance for the design and fabrication of a microphone.
Degradation of the nanocomposite coatings is observed under electrical load, even though they are both much harder than the silver-graphite counter surface.
The microactuator is assumed as a clamped clamped microbeam under electrical load, and it has been assumed that the midplane of the microbeam is stretched when it is deflected.
Our results show that viscoelastic effects delay the onset of instability under monotonic electrical loading and can even suppress instabilities under cyclic loading.
Conducting cracks in ferroelectric ceramics under purely electrical loading are analyzed to investigate the effects of electric fields on fracture behavior.
In the present work, we extend a phase-field model of fracture in ferroelectric single crystals to the simulation of the propagation of conducting cracks under purely electrical loading.
The failure criterion, developed from the charge-free zone model, for conductive cracks in piezoelectric ceramics under mechanical and/or electrical loading has an elliptic shape in terms of the normalized electric intensity factor and the normalized stress intensity factor.
Rational design of smart sensors and actuators that consist of piezoelectric solids requires a thorough understanding of the constitutive behavior of this material under mechanical and electrical loading.
