Research Article

Cell-Based Smoothed Finite Element Method-Virtual Crack Closure Technique for a Piezoelectric Material of Crack

Table 2

The energy release rate under different mesh dividing methods.

ElementMaterial/(10−3 N/m)/(10−3 N/m)
CSFEM-VCCT Error/(%)FEM-VCCT Error/(%)Analytical solu.CSFEM-VCCT Error/(%)FEM-VCCT Error/(%)Analytical solu.

IPZT-4
P-7
PZT-5H

IIPZT-4
P-7
PZT-5H

IIIPZT-4
P-7
PZT-5H