Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Cracked Micro-Beams Below and at the Onset of Dynamic Pull-In Instability

Subject Areas : Engineering

R Hassannejad ¹ , Sh Amiri Jahed ²

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Received: 2017-11-02 Accepted : 2018-01-01 Published : 2018-03-01

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