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The Bueckner work conjugate integral for cracked piezoelectric materials is studied. The analysis is based on the permeable crack model to avoid the unphysically impermeable crack assumption. It is proved that the values of the Bueckner integrals are dependent on the normal electric displacement component on the crack surfaces and the coordinates of the starting point and the end point of the integral contour on the lower and upper crack faces, respectively. This means that, strictly speaking, the Bueckner integral for the permeable crack model is path-dependent unless a special condition is satisfied, i.e., the horizontal coordinates of the starting point and the end points of the integral contour are the same. The present conclusions are quite different from those derived from the impermeable crack model, where the Bueckner integral is strictly path-independent. The universal relation between the Bueckner integral and the J-integral existing in the impermeable crack model is also proved not to be always valid for the present permeable model unless the special integral contour is taken. This implies that the crack electric boundary condition in piezoelectric materials yields some significant influence on the properties of the Bueckner work conjugate integral.
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Li, Q., Chen, Y.H. The Bueckner work conjugate integral for a permeable crack in piezoelectric materials. Acta Mechanica 190, 237–243 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-006-0410-z
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