TEMPERATURE STRESSES IN BARIUM-TITANATE-BASED
SEMICONDUCTOR CERAMICS

V. N. Shut and A. V. Gavrilov

UDC 536.21+621.319.1

Temperature stresses in barium-titanate-based semiconductor 
ceramics in the process of heating by an electric current have been 
investigated by numerical methods. The fracture of low-resistance 
thermistors by the delamination mechanism has been substantiated.

Institute of Engineering Acoustics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 
13 Lyudnikov Ave., Vitebsk, 210023, Belarus; email: shut@vitebsk.by. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 3, pp. 596-601, 
May-June, 2008. Original article submitted March 16, 2007; revision submitted 
May 11, 2007.