Dynamic antiplane behaviour of interacting cracks in a piezoelectric medium

In this article, we examine the dynamic interaction between two cracks in a piezoelectric medium under incident antiplane shear wave loading. The theo retical formulations governing the steady-state problem are based upon the use of integral transform techniques and a self-consistent iterative method . The resulting dynamic stress intensity factors at the interacting cracks are obtained by solving the appropriate singular integral equations using C hebyshev Polynomials at different loading frequencies. Numerical examples a re provided to show the effect of the geometry of the cracks, the piezoelec tric constants of the material and the frequency of the incident wave upon the dynamic stress intensity factor of the cracks.