dear Kaplan, thanks for the reply, the paper that I am referring to follows the book of giovanni as the reference and I have seen that the solutions are slightly different from that given in giovanni thank for replying anurekha ----- Original Message ----- From: "shay kaplan"To: "'General MEMS discussion'" Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 6:03 PM Subject: RE: [mems-talk] Diaphragms > Dear anurekha, > Most of what you will be doing in mems - unless it's PDMS falls between > either a plate or a shell - the Timoshenko bible still holds