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A crack with an electric displacement saturation zone in an electrostrictive material under purely electric loading is analyzed. A strip saturation model is here employed to investigate the effect of the electrical polarization saturation on electric fields and elastic fields. A closed form solution of electric fields and elastic fields for the crack with the strip saturation zone is obtained by using the complex function theory. It is found that the K I -dominant region is very small compared to the strip saturation zone. The generalized Dugdale zone model is also employed in order to investigate the effect of the saturation zone shape on the stress intensity factor. Using the body force analogy, the stress intensity factor for the asymptotic problem of a crack with an elliptical saturation zone is evaluated numerically.
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Beom, H.G., Kim, Y.H., Cho, C. et al. A Crack with an Electric Displacement Saturation Zone in an Electrostrictive Material. Arch Appl Mech 76, 19–31 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00419-006-0002-3
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