“…As is known, the electric boundary condition (BC) largely affects the fracture behaviors of piezoelectric materials (Dunn, 1994; Rungamornrat et al, 2015; Shindo et al, 2009). According to the permeability of an electric field, there are three simplified BCs across a crack face in piezoelectric materials, that is, electrically impermeable (Deeg, 1980; Pak, 1990), permeable (Parton, 1976) and semi-permeable crack BCs (Hao and Shen, 1994; Shindo et al, 1996). The solutions based on these simplified crack BCs are quite different from that with exact crack BCs (Zhang et al, 1998; Zhao et al, 2018b) in piezoelectric materials.…”