An Online Tool for Simulating Electro-Thermo-Mechanical Flexures Using Distributed and Lumped Analyses

Sensors & Transducers

Jason Vaughn Clark¹  Fengyuan Li¹ 

[1] Purdue University, 1205 W. State St., West Lafayette, IN, 47906, USA;

关键词: Online tool;    Electro-thermo-mechanical;    Modeling;    Simulation;    Thermal actuator;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We present an online tool that combines distributed and lumped analyses to simulate a microscale electro-thermo-mechanical actuator. Users may configure and run simulations over the web at nanoHUB.org with remote computation. Compared to pure distributed analysis, our hybrid analysis is nearly as accurate, within 0.5 %. Our tool uses distributed analysis to simulate the electro-thermal domain, and then uses the average temperature with lumped analysis to simulate the thermo-mechanical domain. Our tool compares favorably to experiment when considering the uncertainties in geometries and material properties. Last, we present our tool’s web interface.

【 授权许可】

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