[1] Measurements of snow using a high-resolution micropenetrometer can be used to discriminate between different snow types; in lower-density snow the signal is sensitive to microstructure, and micromechanical properties can be estimated. Although a physics-based snow penetration theory was first developed almost a decade ago, since that time the majority of studies using snow micropenetrometer...

A reduced order model for the small signal analysis of micromechanical structures (MEMS) has been extracted by applying model order reduction (MOR) to their finite element models. The low-order model conserves the accuracy belonging to the finite element method, while drastically reducing the computational time. Moreover, it gives a description of the device’s terminal behaviour and can therefo...

A basic micromechanical model for deformation of solids with only one tuning parameter (weakening epsilon) is introduced. The model can reproduce observed stress-strain curves, acoustic emissions and related power spectra, event statistics, and geometrical properties of slip, with a continuous phase transition from brittle to ductile behavior. Exact universal predictions are extracted using mea...

An original processing route by powder metallurgy was developped to alloy pure Ni foams so, that the foam becomes refractory for high temperature applications. The modelling of such a foam at high temperature starts from the behavior of the basic constitutive material, then we use micromechanical models to predict the mechanical properties under tension and in compression creep. A 3D finite ele...

This paper presents the design and a new low-cost process for fabrication of a second-order micromechanical filter using UV-LIGA technology. The micromechanical filter consists of two identical bulk-mode ring resonators, mechanically coupled by a flexural-mode beam. A new lumped modeling approach is presented for the bulk-mode ring resonators and filter. The validity of the analytical derivatio...

The electromechanical coupling factors (ηe’s) of capacitively-transduced micromechanical resonators have been increased by a factor of 8.1× via a process technology that utilizes atomic layer deposition (ALD) to partially fill the electrode-toresonator gaps of released resonators with high-k dielectric material and thereby achieve effective electrode-to-resonator gap spacings as small as 32 nm....

In this paper, several rigorous numerical simulations were conducted to examine the relevance of mean-field micromechanical models compared to the Fast Fourier Transform full-field computation by considering spherical or ellipsoidal inclusions. To be more general, the numerical study was extended to a mixture of different kind of microstructures consisting of spheroidal shapes within the same R...