At 14:55 -0500 9/14/2000, Nickolay Lavrik wrote:
>Does anyone know the equation (or the reference where it can be found)
>that can be used to estimate a spring constant of a thin plate (such as
>microcantilever) based on the plate geometry (thickness, width, length)
>and Young's modulus of the material ?

Find a college freshman text on "statics."  It's gonna be in there.  My
books are all buried in my move from Minneapolis to Dallas, so I con't find
it myself.  If your engineering school has a mechanical engineering
department, they should have a text book.  If worse comes to worst, and
introductory materials science (mechanical properties of materials) may
list the same information.

It's a fairly intuitive formula with a constant for correction to actual
values.  At worst, it will involve a moment of inertia for non-recantular
shapes.

David

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