Numerical simulation and analysis of an electroactuated beam using a radial basis function

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1163-1171

  Liu, Y ^a   Liew, K M ^b   Hon, Y C ^c   Zhang, X ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRIC FORCES; ELECTROACTUATED BEAM; KERNEL PARTICLE METHOD; NEWTON-RAPHSON SCHEME;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 28344440937     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/14/6/009     Document Type: Article

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