Hi Brian For accelerometer design contact Dr. Jaume Esteve at CNM (Barcelona). His email is the following: jaume@cnm.es Regards Dr. Federico Sandoval-Ibarra On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Brian S Cheung wrote: > > My partner and I are undergraduate students who are working on a summer > project, the design of a MEMS accelerometer, for our prof. We would like > to perform some CAD simulations of a silicon beam, but are lacking several > of the values for silicon's mechanical properties. We're not looking > for highly detailed values, but some rough, crystal orientation > averaged numbers that would give us reasonable results. Can anyone > recommend us to a good reference book, journal articles, web site, etc. > Even better, if someone has already performed some computer simulations, > we'd be grateful if you could share the property values used and how they > compared to the reality. > > Much obliged. > > > * "And then the storm breaks, and it is not thunder at > Brian Cheung * all, but that entropic inner-ear whine of molecules > U of Toronto * breaking apart and whirling away." > EngSci 0T0 * -- Evolution's Shore > * Ian McDonald > > > >