Piezoelectric behavior

A piezoelectric material:

  • is one in which an electrical field causes the material to strain, while stress causes an electric potential gradient;

  • provides linear relations between mechanical and electrical fields; and

  • is used in piezoelectric elements, which have both displacement and electrical potential as nodal variables.

The following topics are discussed:

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