铁电陶瓷宏观单轴力电行为的双面模型

铁电陶瓷以其优越的力电耦合性作为新型的智能材料使用. 提出基于弹塑性双面理论的宏观铁电本构模型. 根据铁电陶瓷内部电畴在外电场和机械场作用下的微观运动，在宏观上除引入材料的畴变面外，还首次引入饱和面，并考虑以畴变面与饱和面之间的广义距离来表征铁电陶瓷的非线性行为. 数值计算结果与实验数据的比较表明所提出的初步理论可适当地反映力电加载下铁电陶瓷的宏观非线性行为.     

铁电陶瓷电致疲劳失效的研究进展

铁电陶瓷是具备力电转换功能的典型高技术材料.本文概述铁电陶瓷电致疲劳失效的研究进展.首先介绍电致疲劳的定义和特点,然后讨论电致疲劳失效在不同尺度下的表现行为,包括宏观尺度下裂纹的疲劳扩展;细观尺度下裂纹的萌生;微观尺度下点缺陷在循环电场下的积聚.随即阐述了铁电陶瓷在循环电场下缺陷汇聚的理论分析,运用微结构演化方法计算了单个孔洞随畴界的移动距离,推导了循环电场下铁电陶瓷内点缺陷浓度的演化方程,给出了点缺陷浓度与其汇聚程度之间的定量关系,从而提出了贯通不同尺度的铁电陶瓷电致疲劳失效机理.      

电磁功能材料的多场耦合实验研究进展

将对电磁功能材料多物理场耦合性能检测技术和设备做一综述介绍,介绍如何在多物理场耦合条件下测试电磁滞回线、蝶形曲线、电磁致伸缩、应力应变曲线和磁电效应等物理力学性能,并介绍电磁功能材料在多物理耦合场作用下的新的实验现象,包括铁电材料在多轴电场和双轴力载荷作用下的电滞回线、裂纹尖端的畴变规律、磁致伪弹性、磁致伸缩的"回落"等现象.这对于理解电磁功能材料和结构在耦合场下的变形与断裂机制有重要的意义.     

铁电复合材料的力电耦合行为

对铁电复合材料力电耦合行为的研究进行综述．介绍了铁电复合材料的一些基本特点和线性压电有效性能的研究进展．阐述铁电复合材料中由于铁电相的铁电畴变与铁弹畴变以及基体相的弹性、粘弹性和介电弛豫性质所引起的铁电复合材料的非线性力电耦合行为．介绍了基于细观力学方法对铁电复合材料的本构关系进行研究的一些结果．     

铁电陶瓷PZT53多轴力电耦合下的屈服行为

研究了不同拉-扭与压-扭比例载荷和电场耦合作用下铁电陶瓷PZT53的屈服行为。通过自己设计的力电加载装置,结合材料试验机和电压放大器对PZT53在多轴力电耦合载荷作用下应力-应变行为进行测量,结合陈和卢的理论,得出了极化和未极化的PZT53陶瓷在多轴力载荷下的初始屈服面和破坏面。结果表明初始屈服面类似于Drucker-Prager屈服面,本文提出了一个屈服准则,较好的符合实验结果。实验发现PZT53陶瓷破坏行为符合最大拉应力破坏准则。对于极化的PZT53陶瓷,还研究了偏置电场对应力-应变行为的影响,结果表明偏置电场大于0．6kV／mm时,PZT53陶瓷的屈服现象消失。本文工作为发展铁电陶瓷PZT53的多轴力电耦合唯象本构模型提供了实验基础。     

铁电陶瓷的单电畴力学模型

物理实验证实铁电陶瓷的畴变是一个复杂的物理渐变过程,因此论文中引入了电畴翻转体积分数来表征这一过程,以电畴翻转体积分数为内变量,建立了考虑电畴翻转体积分数的铁电材料本构关系.接着提出了单电畴力学模型,把极化后的铁电试样看作横观各向同性单电畴的均匀材料.利用考虑电畴翻转体积分数的铁电材料本构关系,根据部分实验数据,拟合出电畴翻转驱动力与电畴翻转体积分数之间的强化关系曲线.然后根据标定出的强化关系曲线计算铁电试样在力电载荷下的响应.理论预测与实验结果符合良好.     

铁电材料的疲劳失效行为

在航空航天、核能发电等重大装备技术领域, 作为高温传感/驱动/能量收集器件的敏感材料——铋层状结构铁电(BLSF)陶瓷在复杂载荷环境下的疲劳失效问题严重限制着器件寿命和可靠性的提高. 本文以BLSF陶瓷的应用需求为背景, 围绕铁电材料的疲劳裂纹扩展与电畴极化翻转及其相互作用机制等关键问题, 综述了铁电材料在热、力、电三种载荷及其耦合作用下疲劳失效行为的研究现状, 并根据当前铁电材料的一些新发展、新应用对其未来研究方向进行了展望, 旨在为高性能、长寿命铁电/压电器件设计提供参考.      

力电耦合载荷作用下铁电陶瓷破坏行为的云纹干涉方法研究

本文介绍了如何用云纹干涉法实时地观察铁电陶瓷在力载荷和电载荷共同作用下裂尖的破坏行为．测量了三点弯试验中由电场和应力集中导致的裂尖的变形场．对变形的云纹图分析表明：当极化方向与裂纹扩展方向一致，且都与电场方向垂直，裂尖附近的正应变随电场的增加而增加，应变集中现象比较突出，电场促进和加速了裂纹的扩展．     

固体电介质中的挠曲电效应

挠曲电效应通常描述为非均匀变形如应变梯度引起的电极化或者电场梯度引起的变形。由于应变梯度能够局部破坏晶体的反演对称从而在材料中诱导电极化,因此挠曲电效应是固体电介质材料中普遍存在的一种力电耦合效应。由于应变梯度和电场梯度均随材料尺寸的减小而迅速增大,在宏观尺度通常被忽略的挠曲电效应在微纳尺度反而起着非常重要的作用,会显著影响材料的物理性能。与压电效应和电致伸缩效应相比,挠曲电效应具有独特的尺寸依赖特征,其不受材料对称性和铁电材料居里相变温度的限制。本文综述了固体电介质中的挠曲电效应,并重点从理论、材料和应用方面综述了固体电介质中挠曲电效应的研究进展,对挠曲电效应的独特性能进行了详细地讨论,最后本文展望了固体电介质中挠曲电效应相关研究的开放性问题和发展方向。     

磁-电-弹性半空间在轴对称热载荷作用下的三维问题研究

考虑力-电-磁-热等多场耦合作用, 基于线性理论给出了磁-电-弹性半空间在表面轴对称温度载荷作用下的热-磁-电-弹性分析, 并得到了问题的解析解. 利用Hankel 积分变换法求解了磁-电-弹性材料中的热传导及控制方程, 讨论了在磁-电-弹性半空间在边界表面上作用局部热载荷时的混合边值问题, 利用积分变换和积分方程技术, 通过在边界表面上施加应力自由及磁-电开路条件, 推导得到了磁-电-弹性半空间中位移、电势及磁势的积分形式的表达式. 获得了磁-电-弹性半空间中温度场的解析表达式并且给出了应力, 电位移和磁通量的解析解. 数值计算结果表明温度载荷对磁-电-弹性场的分布有显著影响. 当温度载荷作用的圆域半径增大时, 最大正应力发生的位置会远离半无限大体的边界; 反之当温度载荷作用的圆域半径减小时, 最大应力发生的位置会靠近半无限大体的边界. 电场和磁场在温度载荷作用的圆域内在边界表面附近有明显的强化, 而磁-电-弹性场强化区域的强化程度跟温度载荷的大小和作用区域大小相关. 本研究的相关结果对智能材料和结构在热载荷作用下的设计和制造具有指导意义.      

Fatigue crack growth induced by domain switching under electromechanical load in ferroelectrics

Reliability calls for a better understanding of the failure of ferroelectric ceramics. The fracture and fatigue of ferroelectric ceramics under an electric field or a combined electric and mechanical loading are investigated. The small-scale domain-switching model is modified to analyze failure due to fracture and fatigue. Effects of anisotropy and electromechanical load coupling are taken into account. Analytical expressions are obtained for domain-switching regions near the crack tip such that of 90° domain switching can be distinguished from 180° domain switching in addition to different initial poling directions. The crack tip stress intensity variation of ferroelectric ceramics due to the domain switching is analyzed. A positive electric field tends to enhance the propagation of an insulating crack perpendicular to the poling direction, while a negative field impedes it. Fatigue crack growth under various coupling loads and effects of the stress field and electric field on near field stress intensity variation are analyzed. Predicted crack growth versus cyclic electric field agrees well with experiment.     

Effect of electric displacement saturation on the stress intensity factor for a crack in a ferroelectric ceramic

A crack in a ferroelectric ceramic with perfect saturation under electric loading is analyzed. The boundary of the electric displacement saturation zone ahead of the crack tip is assumed to be ellipse in shape. The shape and size of ferroelectric domain switching zone near a crack tip is determined based on the nonlinear electric theory. The stress intensity factor induced by ferroelectric domain switching under small-scale conditions is numerically obtained as a function of the electric saturation zone parameter and the ratio of the coercive electric field to the yield electric field. It is found that the stress intensity factor increases as the ratio of the semi-axes of the saturation ellipse increases.     

Energy principle of ferroelectric ceramics and single domain mechanical model

Many physical experiments have shown that the domain switching in a ferroelectric material is a complicated evolution process of the domain wall with the variation of stress and electric field. According to this mechanism, the volume fraction of the domain switching is introduced in the constitutive law of ferroelectric ceramic and used to study the nonlinear constitutive behavior of ferroelectric body in this paper. The principle of stationary total energy is put forward in which the basic unknown quantities are the displacement u _i , electric displacement D _i and volume fraction ρ _I of the domain switching for the variant I. Mechanical field equation and a new domain switching criterion are obtained from the principle of stationary total energy. The domain switching criterion proposed in this paper is an expansion and development of the energy criterion. On the basis of the domain switching criterion, a set of linear algebraic equations for the volume fraction ρ _I of domain switching is obtained, in which the coefficients of the linear algebraic equations only contain the unknown strain and electric fields. Then a single domain mechanical model is proposed in this paper. The poled ferroelectric specimen is considered as a transversely isotropic single domain. By using the partial experimental results, the hardening relation between the driving force of domain switching and the volume fraction of domain switching can be calibrated. Then the electromechanical response can be calculated on the basis of the calibrated hardening relation. The results involve the electric butterfly shaped curves of axial strain versus axial electric field, the hysteresis loops of electric displacement versus electric filed and the evolution process of the domain switching in the ferroelectric specimens under uniaxial coupled stress and electric field loading. The present theoretic prediction agrees reasonably with the experimental results given by Lynch. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10572138).     

Effect of electric fields on fracture behavior of ferroelectric ceramics

The asymptotic problem of a semi-infinite crack perpendicular to the poling direction in a ferroelectric ceramic subjected to combined electric and mechanical loading is analyzed to investigate effect of electric fields on fracture behavior. Electromechanical coupling induced by the piezoelectric effect is neglected in this paper. The shape and size of the switching zone is shown to depend strongly on the relative magnitude between the applied electric field and stress field as well as on the ratio of the coercive electric field to the yield electric field. A universal relation between the crack tip stress intensity factor and the applied intensity factors of stress and electric field under small-scale conditions is obtained from the solution of the switching zone. It is found that the ratio of the coercive electric field to the yield electric field plays a significant role in determining the enhancement or reduction of the crack tip stress intensity factor. The fracture toughness variation of ferroelectrics under combined electric and mechanical loading is also discussed.     

An I-integral method for crack-tip intensity factor variation due to domain switching in ferroelectric single-crystals

In the present study, an I-integral method is established for solving the crack-tip intensity factors of ferroelectric single-crystals. The I-integral combined with the phase field model is successfully used to investigate crack-tip intensity factor variations due to domain switching in ferroelectricity subjected to electromechanical loadings, which exhibits several advantages over previous methods based on small-scale switching. First, the shape of the switching zone around a crack tip is predicted by the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau equation, which does not require preset energy-based switching criterion. Second, the I-integral can directly solve the crack-tip intensity factors and decouple the crack-tip intensity factors of different modes based on superimposing an auxiliary state onto an actual state. Third, the I-integral is area-independent, namely, the I-integral is not affected by the integral area size, the polarization distributions, or domain walls. This makes the I-integral applicable to large-scale domain switching. To this end, the electro-elastic field intensity factors of an impermeable crack in PbTiO₃ ferroelectric single crystals are evaluated under electrical, mechanical, and combined loading. The intensity factors obtained by the I-integral agree well with those obtained by the extrapolation technique. From numerical results, the following conclusions can be drawn with respect to fracture behavior of ferroelectrics under large-scale switching. Under displacement controlled mechanical loading, the stress intensity factors (SIFs) decrease monotonically due to the domain switching process, which means a crack tip shielding or effective switching-induced toughening occurs. If an external electric field is applied, the electric displacement intensity factor (EDIF) increases in all cases, i.e., the formed domain patterns enhance the electric crack tip loading. The energy release rate, expressed by the crack-tip J-integral, is reduced by the domain switching in all examples, which underlines the switching-induced-toughening effect. In contrast, under stress controlled load, the SIF evolves due to large-scale switching to a stable value, which is higher than the non-switching initial value, i.e., fracture is promoted in this case.     

Tuning of non-uniform switch toughening in ferroelectric composites by an electric field

This paper deals with a mode III interfacial crack subject to anti-plane stress and in-plane electric fields. The analysis concentrates on the tuning of fracture toughness from non-uniform ferroelectric-ferroelastic domain switch-ing by an electric field. The electric loading changes the size of the asymmetric switching zone. Employing the weight function method, we obtain the electrically-dependent switch toughening for stationary and quasi-static growing interfacial cracks, respectively. Multi-domain solutions are derived for non-poled and fully-poled ferroelectric composites. Numer-ical results are presented on the electric field tuning of the critical applied stress intensity factor. The research provides ways to optimize fracture properties of ferroelectric compos-ites by altering the electric field.     

Three dimensional dynamic electromechanical constitutive relations for ferroelectric materials

We propose, in this paper, three dimensional constitutive relations suitable for describing the dynamic electromechanical responses of ferroelectric materials. Our approach is phenomenological and is based on the assumptions that the macroscopic electrical properties can be represented by electric dipoles whose magnitude and direction can be altered by external stimuli. The constitutive relations for the stress and the electric displacement take into account the transient and instantaneous responses of the dipole moments and the transient response of domain switching. A specific respesentation of the theory is also derived; this representation is suitable for studying the responses of ferroelectic materials to dynamic mechanical loading and rapidly applied electric field.     

A SIMPLE CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR FERROELECTRIC CERAMICS UNDER ELECTRICAL/MECHANICAL LOADING

A simple phenomenological model is developed for describing the macroscopic constitutive response of ferroelectric materials based on consideration of the fact that domain switching is a progressive evolution process with loading. The volume fraction of domain switching is taken as an internal variable, which is derived from the domain nucleation theory. The proposed theory can simulate the dielectric hysteresis, reversed butterfly hysteresis, nonlinear strain-stress hysteresis, as well as electric displacement-stress relation of ferroelectric materials. Its comparison with experimental results and two other theoretical models reveals that the model presented can well predict the nonlinear hysteresis of ferroelectrics under electrical or mechanical loading.     

A micromechanics method to study the effect of domain switching on fracture behavior of polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics

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Numerical simulation of domain switching in multilayer ferroelectric actuators

Micromechanical finite element methods are developed based on a nonlinear constitutive model of ferroelectric polycrystals. Electromechanical behaviors ahead of an internal electrode tip are numerically simulated in multilayer ferroelectric actuators. Around the electrode edge, the nonuniform electric field generates a concentration of stress due to the incompatible strain as well as spontaneous strain. The preferred domain switching enhances the concentration of residual stress and may cause the actuators to crack. An electrically permeable crack emanating from an internal electrode is analyzed. A large scale domain switching zone is found in the vicinity of crack tips. The larger the actuating strain and electric field are, the larger the switching zone will be. The size of switching zone even reaches the scale of crack length with increasing electromechanical loading.