Electro-elastic interaction between a piezoelectric screw dislocation and collinear rigid lines

Abstract

Electro-elastic stress investigation on the interaction between a piezoelectric screw dislocation and collinear rigid lines under anti-plane mechanical and in-plane electrical loading is carried out. The lines are considered, respectively, as dielectrics or conductors. The screw dislocation is subjected to a line charge and a line force at the core. Closed-form analytical solutions are derived by means of complex variable method. Explicit expressions for the field variables, the singularity of the field variables at the line tip and the force on the dislocation are obtained for a single rigid line.