Hi Brian

For accelerometer design contact Dr. Jaume Esteve at CNM (Barcelona). His
email is the following:

jaume@cnm.es


Regards

Dr. Federico Sandoval-Ibarra

On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Brian S Cheung wrote:

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> My partner and I are undergraduate students who are working on a summer
> project, the design of a MEMS accelerometer, for our prof.  We would like
> to perform some CAD simulations of a silicon beam, but are lacking several
> of the values for silicon's mechanical properties.  We're not looking
> for highly detailed values, but some rough, crystal orientation
> averaged numbers that would give us reasonable results.  Can anyone
> recommend us to a good reference book, journal articles, web site, etc.
> Even better, if someone has already performed some computer simulations,
> we'd be grateful if you could share the property values used and how they
> compared to the reality.
>
> Much obliged.
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> Brian Cheung   *     all, but that entropic inner-ear whine of molecules
> U of Toronto   *     breaking apart and whirling away."
> EngSci 0T0     *                              -- Evolution's Shore
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