FractureMechanicsofPiezoelectricandFerroelectricSolids,authoredbyDainingFangandJinxiLiu,isacomprehensiveandauthoritativetextpublishedin2012thatdelvesintothefracturemechanicsofpiezoelectricandferroelectricmaterials.Thebookprovidesanin-depthanalysisofthemechanicalbehavior,fracturemechanisms,andfailurecriteriaspecifictotheseadvancedfunctionalmaterials,whicharewidelyusedinsmartstructures,sensors,andactuators.Theauthorssystematicallypresenttheoreticalframeworks,experimentalmethods,andnumericaltechniquesforstudyingcrackpropagationandfractureinpiezoelectricandferroelectricsolids.Keytopicsincludelinearandnonlinearfracturemechanics,electromechanicalcouplingeffects,domainswitchingphenomena,andtheinfluenceofelectricfieldsonfracturebehavior.Thisbookservesasanessentialreferenceforresearchers,engineers,andgraduatestudentsworkinginthefieldsofsolidmechanics,materialsscience,andsmartmaterials,offeringbothfundamentaltheoriesandpracticalapplicationsforunderstandingandpredictingthefractureofpiezoelectricandferroelectricmaterialsundercomplexelectromechanicalloadingconditions.
