An arbitrarily-oriented plane crack terminating at the interface between dissimilar piezoelectric material

The plane problem of a crack terminating at the interface of a bimaterial piezoelectric, and loaded on its faces, is treated. Emphasis is placed on how to transform this problem into a nonhomogeneous Hilbert problem. To make the derivation tractable, the concept of the axial conjugate is introduced and related to the complex conjugate. The angle between the crack line and the interface may be arbitrary. Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.