Pull-in characteristics of electrically actuated MEMS arches

Farokhi, Hamed, Ghayesh, Mergen H. and Hussain, Shahid (2016) Pull-in characteristics of electrically actuated MEMS arches. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 98. pp. 133-150. ISSN 0094-114X

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2015.12...

Abstract

This paper examines the pull-in characteristics of initially curved microelectromechanical resonators actuated by a DC voltage along with an AC harmonic voltage. The deformable electrode is modeled by means of a clamped-clamped Euler-Bernoulli microarch in which a combination of mechanical, electrostatic, and electrodynamic nonlinearities are taken into account. A high-dimensional reduced-order Galerkin model is built, and the effect of various system parameters on pull-in instabilities is investigated numerically. Specifically, the electroelastostatic deformation as well as pull-in instabilities are analyzed for the cases actuated electrostatically via the DC voltage; the DC voltage deflection characteristics due to the simultaneous presence of mechanical and electrical nonlinearities are presented. The electroelastodynamic deformations are investigated for the system under simultaneous actuation of the DC and AC voltages; the AC frequency-motion as well as the AC amplitude-motion curves is analyzed to highlight the effect of electroelastodynamic nonlinearities.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: MEMS; Pull-in; DC and AC voltages; Electrically actuated; Nonlinearities
Subjects: H300 Mechanical Engineering
H600 Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mechanical and Construction Engineering
Depositing User: Paul Burns
Date Deposited: 24 Aug 2018 10:21
Last Modified: 11 Oct 2019 19:30
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/35471

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