Thermodynamically and microscopically motivated constitutive model for piezoceramics under uniaxial loading

Marc Kamlah; Qing Jiang

doi:10.1117/12.474987

11 July 2002 Thermodynamically and microscopically motivated constitutive model for piezoceramics under uniaxial loading

Marc Kamlah, Qing Jiang

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Proceedings Volume 4699, Smart Structures and Materials 2002: Active Materials: Behavior and Mechanics; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474987
Event: SPIE's 9th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, 2002, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Our aim is the motivation of a macroscopic constitutive model for engineering reliability analysis of piezoceramic components designed for so-called ``smart'' electromechanical sensor and actuator applications. Typically, such components are made of ferroelectric ceramics, mostly PZT or modified PZT ceramics, which exhibit significant history-dependent nonlinearities such as the well known dielectric, butterfly, and ferroelastic hystereses due to domain switching processes. Following an approach proposed previously by the authors (Smart. Mater. Struct. 9(1999), 441 - 459), we first propose a constitutive framework capable of representing general thermo-electromechanical processes. This framework makes use of internal variables and is thermodynamically consistent with the Clausius-Duhem inequality for all admissible processes. Next, we focus on uni-axial electromechanical loadings and introduce microscopically motivated internal variables and their evolution equations. In order to verify the underlying assumptions, we discuss the numerically calculated model response to standard electromechanical loading paths. This model is capable of reproducing the aforementioned typical hysteresys phenomena and mechanical depolarization as well as other nonlinear electromechanical coupling phenomena. Furthermore, the model response exhibits rate-dependence, which is typical in the response of ferroelectric ceramics.

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Marc Kamlah and Qing Jiang "Thermodynamically and microscopically motivated constitutive model for piezoceramics under uniaxial loading", Proc. SPIE 4699, Smart Structures and Materials 2002: Active Materials: Behavior and Mechanics, (11 July 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474987

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