A Study of the Behaviour of Magnetic Microactuators
Authors:
M. Flynn and J.P. Gleeson
Affilation:
University College Cork, Ireland
Pages:
322 - 325
Keywords:
magnetic microactuator, modeling, bifurcations
Abstract:
The behavior of an idealized magnetic microactuator is modeled and analyzed. A two parameter mass-spring model is shown to exhibit a bifurcation from one to three steady states as the geometry of the device is altered. In addition we obtain solutions of the differential equation governing the motion of a forced elastic membrane and find similar phenomena. Stability analysis determines that in the case of three steady states that two are stable and one is unstable.
