Hybride Materialmodellierung für ferroelektroelastische Keramiken

Ferroelectroelastic ceramics are used in sensor and actuator applications due to their electromechanical coupling properties. In order to predict the behavior of components or to assess their strength, material models are required. In the present work, a multi-axial, rate-independent material model for ferroelectroelastic ceramics is elaborated. This includes the development of efficient numerical solution methods. By incorporating ideas from known macroscopic phenomenological and micro-electromechanical phenomenological models into the novel model, it is attempted to combine the advantages of both approaches. In a first example, it is shown that the hybrid model can reproduce the experimentally observed material response of barium titanate ceramics. In a second example, the model is applied to morphotropic PZT ceramics. In this context, the recently discovered monoclinic phase as well as the hierarchical structure of micro-domains and nano-domains observed by means of electron microscopy are taken into account in a simplified way. Based on the assumptions made, the experimentally measured material response of the morphotropic PZT ceramic PIC151 (PI Ceramic GmbH, Lederhose, Germany) is predicted with reasonable accuracy for selected load cases