Shear effect on dynamic behavior of microcantilever beam with manufacturing process defects

Autor: Reda Yahiaoui, Guillaume Herlem, M.E.A. Benamar, Hicham Bourouina, Elmar Yusifli, Kamal Ghoumid
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Microsystem Technologies. 23:2537-2542
ISSN: 1432-1858
0946-7076
Popis: This paper is concerned with the investigation of the shear effect on the dynamic behavior of a thin microcantilever beam with manufacturing process defects. Unlike the Rayleigh beam model (RBM), the Timoshenko beam model (TBM) takes in consideration the shear effect on the resonance frequency. This effect become significant for thin microcantilever beams with larger slenderness ratios that are normally encountered in MEMS devices such as sensors. The TBM model is presented and analyzed by numerical simulation using Finite Element Method (FEM) to determine corrective factors for the correction of the effect of manufacturing process defects like the underetching at the clamped end of the microbeam and the nonrectangular cross section of the area. A semi-analytical approach is proposed for the extraction of the Young’s modulus from 3D FEM simulation with COMSOL Multiphysics software. This model was tested on measurements of a thin chromium microcantilever beam of dimensions (80 × 2 × 0.95 μm3). Final results indicate that the correction of the effect of manufacturing process defects is significant where the corrected value of Young’s modulus is very close to the experimental results and it is about 280.81 GPa.
Databáze: OpenAIRE