We investigate experimentally and analytically the effect of initial shapes, arc and cosine
wave, on the static and dynamic behavior of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) arch …

Micromechanical systems (MEMS) based on electrostatic actuators are commonly involved
in driving and actuating high-speed micro-structures. For this to be efficient, these micro …

In this study, we consider a pressure sensor whose main component is a clamped-clamped
shallow arched microbeam. Two fixed electrodes are used to actuate the microbeam in the …

The nonlinear vibration of cantilever nickel microbeams with thickness in micron level is
investigated through experiment and theory. A non-contact dynamic vibration measurement …

We investigate the potential of electrostatic initially curved microbeams to serve as
bifurcation gas sensors. Toward that end, we develop static and dynamic reduced-order …

Triggering an alarm in a car for low air-pressure in the tire or tripping an HVAC compressor if
the refrigerant pressure is lower than a threshold value are examples for applications where …

We report on the lateral pull-in in capacitive MEMS transducers that employ a repulsive
electrostatic force. The moving element in this system undergoes motion in two dimensions …

A multistable compliant mechanism is a device that can hold several distinct positions
through the storage and release of the strain energy associated with deflections of the …

This paper investigates the responses of initially curved micro-beams subjected to an
electrostatic excitation. A Euler–Bernoulli beam theory is utilized to derive the governing …

This work presents detailed static and dynamic analysis of electrostatically actuated in-plane
micro-electro-mechanical V-shaped micro-beam resonators. An analytical model is …