Mechanics of Advanced Functional Materials

✍ Scribed by Prof. Biao Wang (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 537
• Series: Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mechanics of Advanced Functional Materials emphasizes the coupling effect between the electric and mechanical field in the piezoelectric, ferroelectric and other functional materials. It also discusses the size effect on the ferroelectric domain instability and phase transition behaviors using the continuum micro-structural evolution models. Functional materials usually have a very wide application in engineering due to their unique thermal, electric, magnetic, optoelectronic, etc., functions. Almost all the applications demand that the material should have reasonable stiffness, strength, fracture toughness and the other mechanical properties. Furthermore, usually the stress and strain fields on the functional materials and devices have some important coupling effect on the functionality of the materials. Much progress has been made concerning the coupling electric and mechanical behaviors such as the coupled electric and stress field distribution in piezoelectric solids, ferroelectric domain patterns in ferroelectrics, fracture and failure properties under coupled electric and stress field, etc.

The book is intended for researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of mechanics, materials sciences and applied physics who are interested to work on the interdisciplinary mathematical modeling of the functional materials.

Prof. Biao Wang is the Dean of School of Physics and Engineering of the Sun Yat-sen University, China.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Basic Solutions of Elastic and Electric Fields of Piezoelectric Materials with Inclusions and Defects....Pages 5-95
Micromechanics Models of Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric Composites....Pages 97-146
Determination of the Smallest Sizes of Ferroelectric Nanodomains....Pages 147-177
Size and Surface Effects of Phase Transition on Nanoferroelectric Materials....Pages 179-268
Strain Engineering: Ferroelectric Films on Compliant Substrates....Pages 269-320
Derivation of the Landau-Ginzburg Expansion Coefficients....Pages 321-375
Multiferroic Materials....Pages 377-441
Dielectric Breakdown of Microelectronic and Nanoelectronic Devices....Pages 443-524
Back Matter....Pages 525-528

✦ Subjects

Mechanics;Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials;Optical and Electronic Materials;Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics