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Weight functions proposed for interface cracks in dissimilar isotropic materials (Gao, 1991; Chen and Hasebe, 1994) are extended to treat those in piezoelectric materials. The difficulties in separating the eight distinct complex arguments are overcome. The pseudo-orthogonal properties of the eigenfunction expansion form found in isotropic dissimilar cases(Chen and Hasebe, 1994) are proved to be valid in the present cases although the mathematical manipulations performed here seem much more complicated than those in isotropic dissimilar materials. Several path-independent integrals are obtained and all the coefficients in the eigenfunction expansion form, including the K I, K II, K III and K e, could be calculated by the weight functions introduced in this paper. It is concluded that the weight functions presented here provide a powerful tool to calculate the dominant parameters at the interface crack tip without any special treatment to the singular stress field of the near-tip region.
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Ma, LF., Chen, YH. Weight functions for interface cracks in dissimilar anisotropic piezoelectric materials. International Journal of Fracture 110, 263–279 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010805704212
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