A novel threshold accelerometer with postbuckling structures for airbag restraint systems

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1102-1109

  Zhao, Jian ^a   Jia, Jianyuan ^a   Wang, Hongxi ^a   Li, Wanli ^b  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); Nonlinear stiffness; Postbuckling; Threshold accelerometer

Indexed keywords

AIR FILMS; CONTACT FORCES; CONTACT RELIABILITY; CONTACT TIME; DESIGN FACTORS; DESIGN MODELS; DYNAMIC EQUATIONS; DYNAMICAL SIMULATION; ELASTIC FORCE; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; ELLIPTIC INTEGRALS; INERTIAL MASS; LARGE DEFLECTION; LINEAR BEAM; MOVING DIRECTION; NON-LINEAR STIFFNESS; POST-BUCKLING THEORY; POSTBUCKLING; RESTRAINT SYSTEMS; SENSING ELEMENTS; STRONG NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; THRESHOLD ACCELERATION; THRESHOLD ACCELEROMETER; THRESHOLD CHARACTERISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; EXPERIMENTS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 50349089613     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2007.897936     Document Type: Article

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