Abstract
The stress investigation for a circular piezoelectric fiber sensor embedded in a non-piezoelectric elastic material has been carried out. During the formulation procedure, the inhomogeneity problem is partially decoupled into an elastic problem and a dielectric inhomogeneity problem connected via some eigenstrain and eigen-electric field. The stress field inside the piezoelectric fiber sensor (the inhomogeneity) is evaluated based on Eshelby's equivalent inclusion method. While the explicit close-form solution for the stress distribution outside the inhomogeneity is obtained through Tanak-Mura's superposition process. The analytical solutions presented in this paper have been checked and confirmed by finite element analysis results.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 945-959 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | International Journal of Engineering Science |
Volume | 37 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 1999 |