On a dynamic contact problem for a single electrode (Q1116743)

The dynamic problem of surface-wave excitation by the main element of electrode transducers, a single electrode simulated by a strip stamp lying freely on the surface of a piezoelectric half-space, is considered. The vertical component of the displacement and the electrical potential is given in the contact region, while the surface outside this region has no electrical and mechanical loads. The boundary value problem of electroelasticity mentioned reduces to investigating a system of inhomogeneous Fredholm type integral equations of the first kind in the unknown normal stress and charge distribution density functions.