Due to the stress concentration and large strain gradient around the crack tip, strong
flexoelectric effect would be produced there. Meanwhile, the flexoelectric effect could …

Flexoelectric materials exhibit coupling between electric polarization and mechanical strain
gradient. At the nano-scale and micro-scale, these materials offer a promising potential for …

Based on the higher-grade continuum theory, propagation of longitudinal as well as
transverse anti-plane elastic waves in normal direction to nanoscale periodic laminates of …

Classical piezoelectric elasticity theory fails to explain the size-dependent electro-
mechanical behaviour. The strain gradient elasticity and flexoelectricity are responsible for …

The evaluation of flexoelectric composites with architected microstructures requires a
reasonable estimation of their effective properties. To accomplish this, a computational …

This study focuses on enhancing flexoelectricity in composites and develops a new
micromechanical analytical framework to determine the effective electromechanical …

Interface cracks seriously affect the performance and service life of layered electronic
devices. At nanoscale, the electric field concentration can be generated at the tip of …

The volume average of the constituting properties of a textured polycrystalline aggregate
(the Voigt average) provides a simple way to estimate the effective properties of such an …

In this paper, the propagation of mechanical waves in flexoelectric solids with the
consideration of both the direct and converse flexoelectric effects is studied via a collocation …

A micromechanical model for the analysis of structurally periodic flexoelectric plates with
periodically varying thickness is developed on the basis of asymptotic homogenization. The …