Investigation of Anti-Plane Shear Behavior of a Piezoelectric Material Containing an Impermeable Edg

The problem involving an edge-crack in a rectangular material under the anti-plane mechanical loading and in-plane electric loading is analyzed under the impermeable conditions. By using the series expansion, the general solutions of electromechanical fields are obtained, which satisfied both governing equations and crack sufrace boundary conditions, and the unknown constants in which can be obtained by the boundary collocation method. Numerical results are given to show the effect of electromechanical interaction on energy release rate.