Editors:
- Summarizes most recent developments and research results in surface tension for emerging industrial products
- Provides an original and comprehensive study of surface tension forces and torques including modeling, simulation, experimental set ups
- Contains many case studies including gripping, actuation, capillary filling, sealing, self-assembly, adhesion for better understanding
- Allows the direct use of the results for the simulation in nomograms and close packed formulas
- Provides learning help in exercises
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Microtechnology and MEMS (MEMS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Physical Background
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Front Matter
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Static Modelling of Capillary Forces and Torques
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Front Matter
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Dynamic Modelling of Capillary Forces
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Front Matter
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Conclusions and Perspectives
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Front Matter
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About this book
The originality of this book is to consider the effects of capillary bridges on solids, including forces and torques exerted both statically and dynamically by the liquid along the 6 degrees-of-freedom.
It provides a comprehensive approach to various applications, such as capillary adhesion (axial force), centering force in packaging and micro-assembly (lateral force) and recent developments such as a capillary motor (torque).
It devises how surface tension can be used to provide mechanical functions such as actuation (bubble-actuated compliant table), sealing and tightness, energy harvesting, nanodispending.
Editors and Affiliations
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BEAMS Department CP 165/56, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Pierre Lambert
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Surface Tension in Microsystems
Book Subtitle: Engineering Below the Capillary Length
Editors: Pierre Lambert
Series Title: Microtechnology and MEMS
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37552-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-37551-4Published: 10 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50779-7Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-37552-1Published: 31 August 2013
Series ISSN: 1615-8326
Series E-ISSN: 2365-0680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 327
Number of Illustrations: 132 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Applied and Technical Physics, Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes