purpose– analysis of non-prismatic beams has been focused of attention due to wide use in complex structures such as aircraft, turbine blades and space vehicles. apart from aesthetic aspect, optimization of strength and weight is achieved in use of this type of structures. the purpose of this paper is to present new shape functions, namely 3-node basic displacement functions (bdfs) for derivati...

this paper presents a nonlinear model of a clamped-clamped microbeam actuated by an electrostatic load with stretching and thermoelastic effects. the frequency of free vibration is calculated by discretization based on the differential quadrature (dq) method. by separating the real and imaginary parts of frequency, the quality factor of thermoelastic damping is calculated. both the stretching a...