Pull-in and snap-through instabilities in transient deformations of microelectromechanical systems

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Das, K ^a   Batra, R C ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHES; DEFORMATION; ELECTRODES; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STABILITY; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

A-PRIORI; APPLIED POTENTIALS; BOUNDARY ELEMENTS; CLAMPED-CLAMPED BEAMS; ELECTRIC FORCES; ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS; FINITE ELEMENTS; GEOMETRIC NON LINEARITIES; INERTIA EFFECTS; MECHANICAL DEFORMATIONS; MECHANICAL FORCES; MICRO-ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; NON-LINEAR FUNCTIONS; NON-LINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERFECT ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCES; PROBLEM FORMULATIONS; PULL-IN; PULL-IN INSTABILITIES; SEMI INFINITES; SNAP-THROUGH; SNAP-THROUGH INSTABILITIES; STATIC PROBLEMS; TIME-DEPENDENT POTENTIALS; TIME-SCALE; TRANSIENT DEFORMATIONS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 61849101929     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/19/3/035008     Document Type: Article

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