Cantilever Beam
The elastic cantilever beam is one of the elementary structures used in MEMS designs.This model shows the bending of a cantilever beam under an applied electrostatic load. This is computed from the electric field that is solved in the deforming geometry/mesh domain using the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation.
The model solves the deformation of the beam under a given voltage and also sweeps the voltage to give an estimate for the pull-in voltage of the beam. It does this in 2D, using the slave-master approach for mesh deformation, as well as in 3D.
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Electric potential, and magnetic field vectors |
Engineering Fields
- Actuators
- Electrostatic & Magnetostatics Applications
Application Areas
- MEMS