Transient response of a rectangular piezoelectric medium with a center crack

The dynamic field intensity factors and energy release rates in a rectangular piezoelectric ceramic medium containing a center crack are obtained for boundary conditions of a permeable and an impermeable crack under electro-mechanical impact loading. An integral transform method is used to reduce the problem to two pairs of dual integral equations, which are then expressed as Fredholm integral equations of the second kind. Numerical values on the dynamic energy release rate are obtained to show the dependences upon the geometry and electric field.