Modeling of initially curved beam structures for design of multistable MEMS

Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Williams, Matthew D ^a   Van Keulen, Fred ^b   Sheplak, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAMPED BEAMS; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; CURVED BEAM STRUCTURES; EQUILIBRIUM CONFIGURATION; EQUILIBRIUM PATH; MECHANICAL LOADING; MULTISTABLE; NONLINEAR EQUILIBRIUM; NORMAL FLOW ALGORITHMS; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; SIMULTANEOUS SOLUTION; SOLUTION APPROACH; SOLUTION METHODOLOGY;

LOADING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; POLYNOMIALS;

CURVED BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 83655193237     PISSN: 00218936     EISSN: 15289036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004711     Document Type: Article

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