TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION IN THE VICINITY
OF DEFECTS IN SEMICONDUCTOR BARIUM-TITANATE-BASED CERAMICS

V. N. Shut and A. V. Gavrilov

UDC 536.21+621.319.1

The temperature distribution in the region of defects (pores, 
voids, and large grains) in barium-titanate-based ceramics in the 
process of its heating by electric current has been investigated by 
numerical methods.

Engineering Acoustics Institute, National Academy of Sciences 
of Belarus, 13 Lyudnikov Ave., Vitebsk, 210023, Belarus; email: shut@vitebsk.by. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 80, No. 4, pp. 
181-185, July-August, 2007. Original article submitted January 
21, 2006; revision submitted September 12, 2007.