IUTAM Symposium on Mechanics and Reliability of Actuating Materials

Preface; Committees and Sponsors; List of Participants; Session Programs; Ferroelectrics: A switching rule for local domain wall motions and for macroscopic material response of ferroelectrics, by H. Kessler, P. Bürmann and H. Balke; The effects of sieving method and poling approach on the internal bias field in donor doped PZT ceramics, by D.N. Fang and F.X. Li; Interaction between defects and domain walls in piezoelectric materials, by D. Gross and R. Mueller; In-situ observation of electrically induced fatigue crack growth for ferroelectric single crystals, by F. Fang, W. Yang , F.C. Zhang and H.S. Luo; Crack initiation and crack propagation under cyclic electric loading in PZT, by I. Westram, D.C. Lupascu and J. Rödel; Multiaxial behavior of ferroelectric ceramic PZT53, by Q. Wan, C.Q. Chen and Y.P. Shen; Stability analysis of 180o domains in ferroelectric thin films, by B. Wang, C. H. Woo and Y. Zheng; Stress analysis in two dimensional electrostrictive material under general loading, by Z.B. Kuang and Q. Jiang. Piezoelectrics: Effect of electric fields on fracture of functionally graded piezoelectric materials, by N. Noda and C.F. Gao; The charge-free zone model for conductive cracks in dielectric and piezoelectric ceramics, by T.Y. Zhang; Electric potential drop across a crack in piezoelectrics, by Y.H. Chen and Z.C. Ou; Elastic Sv-wave scattering by an interface crack between a piezoelectric layer and an elastic substrate, by B. Gu, S.W. Yu and X.Q. Feng; A micro-macro approach to design active piezoelectric fiber composites, by H. Berger, S. Kari, N. Bohn, R. Rodriguez and U. Gabbert; FEM-techniques for thermo-electro-mechanical crack analyses in smart structures, by M. Kuna; Trefftz plane element of piezoelectric plate with p-extension capabilities, by Q.H. Qin; On piezoelectric actuator layers in plates and shells at large deflection, by S. Lentzen and R. Schmidt; Electric charge loading of a piezoelectric solid cylinder, by Y. Chen and R.K.N.D.Rajapakse; Oblique propagation of time harmonic waves in periodic piezoelectric composite layered structures, by M. Urago, F. Jin, Y. Mochimaru and K. Kishimoto; Scattering behaviour of elastic waves in 1-3 piezoelectric ceramics/polymer composites, by F. Jin, K. Kishimoto, Z. Qian and Z. Wang; Stress Analysis for an Anisotropic Solid with Variable Off-Axis of Anisotropy, by K. Watanabe; Shape Memory Alloys Deformation instability and pattern formation in superelastic shape memory alloy microtubes, by Q. P. Sun and P. Feng; Theoretical consideration on the fracture of shape memory alloys, by W.Y. Yan and Y.W. Mai; 3D finite element simulation for shape memory alloys, by L.H. Han and T.J. Lu; Magnetostrictive Materials and Actuating Structures Constitutive Models for Magnetostrictive Materials, by X.J. Zheng and X.E. Liu; Vibration analysis of a nonlinear magnetostrictive actuator, by Z. Zhong and Y.P. Wan; Test study of the feed-support system for a large radio telescope, by G.X. Ren, W.B. Zhu, H. Zhang, L.C. Zhu and Q.H. Lu. Biological Actuating Materials: Biofilm growth: perspectives on two-phase mixture flow and fingerings formation, by S. Hao, B. Moran and D. Chopp; Damage and fatigue of actuating heart muscles, by X.M. Zhang, F. Yang, N.K. Ma Y. Zhao and W. Yang; Author Index.