Spurred by the invention of the tapping-mode atomic force microscopy three decades ago,
various micromechanical structures and systems that utilize parts with mechanical impact …

Dimensionality reduction in mechanical vibratory systems poses challenges for distributed
structures including geometric nonlinearities, mainly because of the lack of invariance of the …

Abstract Microsystems (or Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, MEMS) are important
components of many popular products in the consumer market and are one of the enabling …

This paper is devoted to a detailed analysis of the appearance of frequency combs in the
dynamics of a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) resonator featuring 1: 2 internal …

Quasi-periodic solutions can arise in assemblies of nonlinear oscillators as a consequence
of Neimark-Sacker bifurcations. In this work, the appearance of Neimark-Sacker bifurcations …

We propose a simplified numerical technique to quantify the effects of non-linear stiffness in
MEMS resonators and we validate our approach on a clamped–clamped beam, a softening …

As natural frequencies become commensurate, internal (autoparametric) resonances
involving the corresponding modes may arise. This phenomenon has been recently …

High-performance locally resonant metamaterials represent the next frontier in materials
technology due to their extraordinary properties obtained through materials design, enabling …

This paper investigates the characteristics of a micro-switch that uses two side electrodes to
open a normally closed switch. The side electrodes surround the fixed electrode in the well …

Auxetic structures are attracting increasing interest because of their large variety of
applications at both the macro and micro scales. In this work, an innovative auxetic unit cell …