An efficient numerical scheme to determine the pull-in parameters of an electrostatic micro-actuator with contact type nonlinearity

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 11, Issue , 2007, Pages 483-492

  Joglekar, Manish M ^a   Pawaskar, Dnyanesh N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Contact type nonlinearity; Pull in instability; Pull in voltage; Pullin displacement; Pullin Efficacy Index (PEI); Rayleigh Ritz method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CANTILEVER BEAMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MICROOPTICS; NANOCANTILEVERS; NANOSYSTEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

CONTACT TYPE; PULL-IN; PULL-IN INSTABILITY; PULL-IN VOLTAGE; RAYLEIGH-RITZ METHODS;

ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 78751595129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE200741494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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