Vibrational analysis of electrostatically actuated microstructures considering nonlinear effects

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1664-1678

  Moghimi Zand, M ^a   Ahmadian, M T ^a  

^a Fatigue and Fracture Lab Center of Excellence in Experimental Solid Mechanics and Dynamics School of Mechanical Engineering   (Iran)

Author keywords

Multi layer microplates; Nonlinearity; Pull in instability; Squeeze film damping; Vibrations

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROSTRUCTURE; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHEAR DEFORMATION; VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

MICROPLATES; MULTI-LAYER MICROPLATE; MULTI-LAYERS; NONLINEAR SQUEEZE-FILM DAMPING; NONLINEARITY; PULL-IN INSTABILITY; SQUEEZE-FILM DAMPING; VIBRATION; VIBRATIONAL ANALYSIS; VIBRATIONAL BEHAVIOR;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 55549099557     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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