Modeling of viscous damping of perforated planar microstructures. Applications in acoustics

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2939-2947

  Homentcovschi, Dorel ^a,b   Miles, Ronald N ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ACOUSTICS; GRAPH THEORY; INTERFEROMETERS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROPHONES; MICROSENSORS; MICROSTRUCTURE; RESONATORS; SWITCHES;

CAPACITIVE SENSING; MICROMECHANICAL SWITCHES; OFFSET SYSTEMS; VISCOUS DAMPING;

DAMPING;

ACCELEROMETER; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DUST; GEOMETRY; INTERFEROMETER; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; VISCOSITY;

EID: 9744280447     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1798331     Document Type: Article

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