A Green-Naghdi approach for thermo-electroelasticity

Abstract

The constitutive relations of piezoelectric ceramics are essentially nonlinear since the so-called piezoelectric moduli depend on the induced strains. Pioneering papers in these topics dealt mainly with the isothermal case. In view of applications, however, thermal effects have to be taken into account in connection with thermo-electric behaviors. Here we briefly compare continuum theories for nonlinear thermoelettroelasticity. In particular we describe an extension of Green-Naghdi thermoelasticity theory for an electrically polarizable and finitely deformable heat conducting elastic continuumn, which interacts with the electric field. In this theory, unlike other, thermal waves propagate at a finite speed.