TY - JOUR
T1 - Viscoelastic Characteristics of Mechanically Assembled Three-Dimensional Structures Formed by Compressive Buckling
AU - Li, Haibo
AU - Wang, Xi
AU - Zhu, Feng
AU - Ning, Xin
AU - Wang, Heling
AU - Rogers, John A.
AU - Zhang, Yihui
AU - Huang, Yonggang
N1 - Funding Information:
Y. Z. acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Basic Research Program of China and the Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology. Y. H. acknowledges the support from NSF. H. B. Li thanks the support from China Scholarship Council.
Funding Information:
This works is also financially supported from National Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - Vibrational microplatforms that exploit complex three-dimensional (3D) architectures assembled via the controlled compressive buckling technique represent promising candidates in 3D micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), with a wide range of applications such as oscillators, actuators, energy harvesters, etc. However, the accuracy and efficiency of such 3D MEMS might be significantly reduced by the viscoelastic damping effect that arises from material viscosity. Therefore, a clear understanding and characterization of such effects are essential to progress in this area. Here, we present a study on the viscoelastic damping effect in complex 3D structures via an analytical model and finite element analysis (FEA). By adopting the Kelvin-Voigt model to characterize the material viscoelasticity, an analytical solution is derived for the vibration of a buckled ribbon. This solution then yields a scaling law for the half-band width or the quality factor of vibration that can be extended to other classes of complex 3D structures, as validated by FEA. The scaling law reveals the dependence of the half-band width on the geometries of 3D structures and the compressive strain. The results could serve as guidelines to design novel 3D vibrational microplatforms for applications in MEMS and other areas of technology.
AB - Vibrational microplatforms that exploit complex three-dimensional (3D) architectures assembled via the controlled compressive buckling technique represent promising candidates in 3D micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), with a wide range of applications such as oscillators, actuators, energy harvesters, etc. However, the accuracy and efficiency of such 3D MEMS might be significantly reduced by the viscoelastic damping effect that arises from material viscosity. Therefore, a clear understanding and characterization of such effects are essential to progress in this area. Here, we present a study on the viscoelastic damping effect in complex 3D structures via an analytical model and finite element analysis (FEA). By adopting the Kelvin-Voigt model to characterize the material viscoelasticity, an analytical solution is derived for the vibration of a buckled ribbon. This solution then yields a scaling law for the half-band width or the quality factor of vibration that can be extended to other classes of complex 3D structures, as validated by FEA. The scaling law reveals the dependence of the half-band width on the geometries of 3D structures and the compressive strain. The results could serve as guidelines to design novel 3D vibrational microplatforms for applications in MEMS and other areas of technology.
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U2 - 10.1115/1.4041163
DO - 10.1115/1.4041163
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053190392
VL - 85
JO - Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME
JF - Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME
SN - 0021-8936
IS - 12
M1 - 121002
ER -