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Abstract
In this article, thermo-electro-elastic fracture behavior of two parallel cracks in arbitrary positions of a piezoelectric material strip under thermo-electric loadings is considered. The crack faces are assumed to be insulated thermally and electrically. Fourier transform techniques are used to reduce the mixed boundary value problems to two systems of singular integral equations. Numerical calculations are carried out, and detailed results are presented to illustrate the influence of the geometric parameters on the stress and electric displacement intensity factors. The results for the temperature and electro-elastic fields are also included.