Investigation of elastic boundary condition on the pull-in instability of beam-type NEMS under van der waals attraction

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 1724-1729

  Abadyan, M R ^a   Beni, Y Tadi ^b   Noghrehabadi, Aminreza ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

MAD; NEMS NEMS; Real boundry conditions; Van der Waals force

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

DISPERSION FORCE; MACRO SCALE; NANO DISTANCE; NANOACTUATORS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PULL-IN INSTABILITY; REAL BOUNDRY CONDITIONS; VAN DER WAALS ATTRACTION;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 80052946303     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.04.287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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