Research Article

Modeling and Simulations of Collapse Instabilities of Microbeams due to Capillary Forces

Figure 12

The normalized beam deflection versus the normalized beam length using the shooting technique for the case of a hinged boundary condition (a) for different capillary force distributions (b) for a completely wetted beam ( ) and various values of .
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(a) and .
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(b) .