Time

Title

Speaker

Abst #

8:15-9:00

Registration

09:00-9:20

Colloquium Opening - P. Ribeiro, S. Lenci and S. Adhikari

9:20-10:10

Invited Lecture                                       Chair: Stefano Lenci

Nonlinear Dynamics of Thermo-visco-elastic Nano-opto-mechanical Panel Resonators: a multi-scale continuum mechanics coupled fields approach

Oded Gottlieb (Technion, Israel)

Session 1                                      Chair: Alberto Corigliano

10.10-10:30

Semi-analytic modeling and experiments of a collapse-mode CMUT with fluid coupling

Rob Fey

11

10:30-10:50

Finite elements based reduced order models for nonlinear dynamics of piezoelectric and dielectric laminated micro/nanostructures

Olivier Thomas

15

10:50-11:20

Coffee Break

Session 2                                        Chair: Claudia Comi

11:20-11:40

Analysis of isolated solutions in a symmetric MEMS array during symmetry breaking event using NNM

Clément Grenat

16

11:40-12:00

Array of nanostrings electromagnetically coupled through repelling Lorentz forces

Slava Krylov

24

12:00-12:20

Feasibility Study of a Resonant Accelerometer with Bistable Electrostatically Actuated Cantilever as a Sensing Element

Omer HaLevy

26

12:20-12:40

Dynamical instability of pressurized electrically-actuated circular micro-plates

Stefano Lenci

4

12:40-13:00

Dynamic response of a piecewise linear MEMS oscillator

Andrea Guerrieri

17

13:00-14:30

Lunch

Session 3                                        Chair: Olivier Thomas

14:30-14:50

Shock response of a ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscope under nonlinear electrostatic excitation

Stewart McWilliam

18

14:50-15:10

Frequency modulated (FM) micro-gyroscopes: recent advances

Alberto Corigliano

19

15:10-15:30

Mechanical non-linearity effects in supported MEMS ring-based resonators

Stewart McWilliam

20

15:30-15:50

Nonlinear interaction of a pair of nano/micromechanical res. with different decay rates far away from internal resonance

Oriel Shoshani

41

15:50-16:10

Observation of amplitude-dependent nonlinear damping in MEMS micro mirrors

Ulrike Nabholz

6

16:10-16:40

Coffee Break

Session 4                                        Chair: Ulrich Schmid

16:40-17:00

Dynamic behaviour of two cantilevers partially immersed in glycerol

Stefanie Gutschmidt

30

17:00-17:20

Theoretical framework for modelling the fluid-structure interaction of complex MEMS/NEMS resonator eigenmodes

Daniel Platz

12

17:20-17:40

Dynamics of very viscous flow in deformable microchannels under impact loads

F. Galindo-Rosales

32

17:40-18:00

Gas flow in a micro-channel with an elastic obstacle

Emil Manoach

42

18:00-18:20

Pressure Drop Measurements in Microchannels: Influence of the Tap Design

Tomás R. Pinto

27

18:30-19:30

Welcome Reception