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Dynamic Simulation of an Electrostatically Actuated Impact Microactuator

Zhao X., Dankowicz H., Reddy C.K., Nayfeh A.H., Virginia Tech, US

We study the dynamics of an electrostatically driven impact microactuator reported by Mita and associates. The microactuator is modeled as a two-degree-of-freedom rigid multibody system. The impact phenomenon is described by a simple impact law [...]

Complete Transient Simulations of Electrostatic Actuators

Cojocaru C., Lerch P., Kloeck B., Bourgeois C., Renaud Ph., EPFL, CH

A code for the dynamical simulation of electrostatic actuated micromechanical systems with complex 3D geometry was created. It allows exact electrical force computation at each time step during the dynamic analyses. A finite element method [...]