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Gradient piezoelectricity

Department of Mechanics

 

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Fig. 2: The ¼ model for the central crack

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Fig. 6   Size-effect of the strain-gradients on the crack-opening-displacement for a cracked piezoelectric square domain
 The strain-gradient size-factor, q,
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The constitutive equations (Hu and Shen, 2009)

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