简介:Asolutionispresentedforaclassoftwo-dimensionalelectroelasticbranchedcrackproblems.ExplicitGreen’sfunctionforaninterfacecracksubjecttoanedgedislocationisdevelopedusingtheextendedStrohformulationallowingthebranchedcrackproblemtobeexpressedintermsofcoupledsingularintegralequations.Theintegralequationsareobtainedbythemethodthatmodelsakinkasacontinuousdistributionofedgedislocations,andthedislocationdensityfunctionisdefinedonthelineofthebranchcrackonly.Competitionbetweencrackextensionalongtheinterfaceandkinkingintothesubstrateisinvestigatedusingtheintegralequationsandthemaximumenergyreleaseratecriterion.Numericalresultsarepresentedtoshowtheeffectofelectricfieldonthepathofcrackextension.