Comparative investigations of multi-fidelity modeling on performance of electrostatically-actuated cracked micro-beams

Larkin, Kevin; Hunter, Abigail; Abdelkefi, Abdessattar

doi:10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2020.106139

Title: Comparative investigations of multi-fidelity modeling on performance of electrostatically-actuated cracked micro-beams

Abstract

Silicon is a commonly used material for the fabrication of beams for use in micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS). Although silicon is a brittle material, it has been shown to accumulate fatigue damage at the micro-scale. Understanding the effect this has on the overall device performance is critical to the design of reliable devices. Analytical methods for modeling damage provide expedient results but are limited by broad modeling assumptions. Numerical models account for more detailed physical phenomena but can be computationally intensive. In this work, two different crack scenarios are modeled using both analytical techniques and 3D computational simulations. First, the effects of a single surface crack on the static deflection and natural frequency of an electrostatically actuated micro-beam are formulated and compared. Then, a new method for approximating damage associated with realistic distributed crack networks is formulated for use in an analytical model and numerical simulations. A method for utilizing experimentally derived crack statistics to inform the analytical and numerical distributed crack models is developed. Good agreement between the analytical and numerical models is obtained for both crack scenarios. Altogether, these models can be used to effectively simulate a variety of damage and fatigue behaviors in silicon-based MEMS devices.

Authors:

Larkin, Kevin ^[1];

^[2]; Abdelkefi, Abdessattar ^[3]

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2020

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)

OSTI Identifier:: 1673376

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1809261

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-20-24703
Journal ID: ISSN 0020-7403

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: International Journal of Mechanical Sciences

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 192; Journal ID: ISSN 0020-7403

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING

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  title        = {Comparative investigations of multi-fidelity modeling on performance of electrostatically-actuated cracked micro-beams},

  author       = {Larkin, Kevin and Hunter, Abigail and Abdelkefi, Abdessattar},

  abstractNote = {Silicon is a commonly used material for the fabrication of beams for use in micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS). Although silicon is a brittle material, it has been shown to accumulate fatigue damage at the micro-scale. Understanding the effect this has on the overall device performance is critical to the design of reliable devices. Analytical methods for modeling damage provide expedient results but are limited by broad modeling assumptions. Numerical models account for more detailed physical phenomena but can be computationally intensive. In this work, two different crack scenarios are modeled using both analytical techniques and 3D computational simulations. First, the effects of a single surface crack on the static deflection and natural frequency of an electrostatically actuated micro-beam are formulated and compared. Then, a new method for approximating damage associated with realistic distributed crack networks is formulated for use in an analytical model and numerical simulations. A method for utilizing experimentally derived crack statistics to inform the analytical and numerical distributed crack models is developed. Good agreement between the analytical and numerical models is obtained for both crack scenarios. Altogether, these models can be used to effectively simulate a variety of damage and fatigue behaviors in silicon-based MEMS devices.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2020.106139},

  journal      = {International Journal of Mechanical Sciences},

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  volume       = 192,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2020},

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Vibratory characteristics of cracked non-uniform beams with different boundary conditions
journal, January 2019

Identification of multiple open and fatigue cracks in beam-like structures using wavelets on deflection signals
journal, May 2015

Modeling and Vibration Characteristics of Cracked Nano-Beams Made of Nanocrystalline Materials
journal, September 2016

Micromechanical Damage Models for Brittle Solids. Part I: Tensile Loadings
journal, July 1991

Stability of columns with a single crack subjected to follower and vertical loads
journal, January 1983

Scale bridging damage model for quasi-brittle metals informed with crack evolution statistics
journal, May 2020

Modeling and analysis of high-explosive driven perturbed plate experiments at Los Alamos
journal, May 2014

Significance of size dependent and material structure coupling on the characteristics and performance of nanocrystalline micro/nano gyroscopes
journal, May 2018

Effective Elastic Moduli of Two-Dimensional Brittle Solids With Interacting Microcracks, Part I: Basic Formulations
journal, June 1994

Effective Elastic Moduli of Two-Dimensional Brittle Solids With Interacting Microcracks, Part II: Evolutionary Damage Models
journal, June 1994

Statistically informed upscaling of damage evolution in brittle materials
journal, August 2019

Nonlinear size dependent analysis and effectiveness of nanocrystalline micro/nanogyroscopes
journal, March 2020

Griffith Criterion for Nanoscale Stress Singularity in Brittle Silicon
journal, May 2017

Static assessment of nanoscale notched silicon beams using the averaged strain energy density method
journal, June 2018

Nonlinear modeling and performance analysis of cracked beam microgyroscopes
journal, December 2020