A curved-beam bistable mechanism

By J. Qiu, J. Lang, A. Slocum. Journal of microelectromechanical systems, 2004

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Modeling and Experiments of Buckling Modes and Deflection of Fixed-Guided Beams in Compliant Mechanisms (2011, background): “[6] for a beam with small deflections.”
Bistability of curved microbeams actuated by fringing electrostatic fields (2011, background): “The first category is comprised of initially curved (pre-shaped), stress-free structures where the shape is lithographically defined and device operation occurs within the plane parallel to the plane of the wafer substrate [6, 7, 11 , 16].”
Bistable Auxetic Mechanical Metamaterials Inspired by Ancient Geometric Motifs (2016, background): “A promising alternative to by-pass this requirement is offered by materials and structures that can travel between stable states if needed [41, 42, 43].”
Improved Energy Harvesting from Wideband Vibrations by Nonlinear Piezoelectric Converters (2009, unknown): “Bistability can be implemented with a specific design of the mechanical structure of the system [21] or by introducing external nonlinear forces.”
Three-Dimensional-Printed Multistable Mechanical Metamaterials With a Deterministic Deformation Sequence (2017, methodology): “To make the results scale-independent, the following normalizations [32] are used:”
Snap-Through and Pull-In Instabilities of an Arch-Shaped Beam Under an Electrostatic Loading (2007, methodology): “criteria for snap-through to occur statically: 1) the ratio of the arch height to the beam thickness (H/h) is large and 2) the (antisymmetric) second mode must be constrained [22].”
A bulk-micromachined bistable relay with U-shaped thermal actuators (2005, background): “One key requirement for this relay is its mechanical bistability, which was realized with double-curved beam discussed in detail in [1].”
Bistable nanowire for micromechanical memory (2008, background): “Previous micromechanical bistable designs [9, 13, 14] have quite large sizes.”
Negative stiffness honeycombs for recoverable shock isolation (2015, background): “Figure 6: First three buckling modes of a curved beam [5].”
Nonlinear Dynamics of MEMS Arches Under Harmonic Electrostatic Actuation (2010, background): “[1], magnetic [6]–[8], thermal [9], [10], comb-drive electrosta-”
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Solutions (2014, background): “Qiu and colleagues [108] demonstrated a bi-stable device consisting of a clamped-clamped buckled”