
300 Meshless methods and their numerical properties
7.2.2 Cantilever microswitches
The considered cantilever beam is shown in Figure7.6. The left end of the
beam is xed and the right end is free. The dimensional and the material
parameters for the cantilever beam are identical to the xed–xed micro-
switch with 41 nodes employed to discretize it.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
–0.25
–0.20
–0.15
–0.10
–0.05
0
0.05
~
V = 12.0 volt
~
Time (μs)
Figure 7.3 (continued) Dynamic response of xed–xed beam. (From H. Li, Q.X. Wang,
and K.Y. Lam. (2004d). Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements,
28, 1261–1270. With permissio ...