Long living software systems (LLSSs) must provide the flexibility to react to changes in their operating environment as well as to changes in the user’s requirements, even during operation. Self-adaptive software systems (SASSs) face adaptivity at runtime within predefined bounds. Yet, not all types of necessary variations can be anticipated and unforeseen changes to software may happen. Thus, ...

Well-posedness of a free boundary problem for electrostatic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is investigated when nonlinear bending effects are taken into account. The model describes the evolution of the deflection of an electrically conductive elastic membrane suspended above a fixed ground plate together with the electrostatic potential in the free domain between the membrane and the fi...

Most of MEMS devices are actuated using electrostatic forces. Parallel or lateral plate actuators are the types commonly used. Nevertheless, electrostatic actuation has some limitations due to its non-linear nature. This work presents a methodic overview of the existing techniques applied to the Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) electrostatic actuation modeling and their implications to t...

Micro or nano distance manipulations are of prime importance in the MEMS industry. Microdevices are ideal for micropositioning systems due to their small size. Microactuators used to produce small displacements would need large actuation forces and a long driving distance. This would require large voltages to produce the desired forces. Actuators based on impulsive forces provide a solution to ...

Electrostatic-driven microelectromechanical systems devices, in most cases, consist of couplings of such energy domains as electromechanics, optical electricity, thermoelectricity, and electromagnetism. Their nonlinear working state makes their analysis complex and complicated. This article introduces the physical model of pull-in voltage, dynamic characteristic analysis, air damping effect, re...

Laboratory: Ampère, UMR CNRS 5005, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Ecully, France Main scientific field: Systems and Control Secondary scientific field: Microelectronics

Nonlinear Bending Analysis of Micro/Nano Rectangular and Annular Sector Plates Using a Modified Higher-Order Shear Deformation Theory the Couple Stress

It has been twenty-five years since organization scholars began to investigate how chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics could be used to explain change in human organizations (Loye & Eisler, 1987), and in particular, business corporations (Nonaka, 1988). While many were first introduced to organizational dynamics through chaos theory, organizational scholars quickly fanned out over the theoretic...

by Satyaki Bhattacharjee Predicting effective material properties of nonlinear heterogeneous materials from the knowledge of its micro-structure through numerical modeling and computational homogenization (CH) has many applications in engineering design. Direct numerical modeling (DNM) using finite element method (FEM) is capable of predicting material behavior accurately. Unfortunately, DNM an...

A new poly(N-vinylcarbazole)-covalently grafted single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT-PVK) hybrid material was synthesized by an in situ anionic polymerization reaction of N-vinylcarbazole and the negatively charged SWNTs. Incorporation of the PVK moieties onto the SWNTs' surface considerably improves the solubility and processability of SWNTs. At the same level of linear transmission, the SWNT-PVK...