Influence of Circular Void on a Crack in a Piezoelectric Material

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In this paper, the influence of circular void on a crack in piezoelectric materials under mechanical and electric loads is investigated by using finite element method code, ANSYS. Both ceramics and piezoelectric materials are compared with stress intensity factor and crack extension force at crack tip on arbitrary located circular void under Mode I loads. It was found that piezoelectric materials's crack extension force is larger than ceramics.