Recent content by jstippey

Thank you for your help. I have been using APDL to analyze my structures. I hadn't tried using PLANE13 yet, I have been using PLANE223. I had bought the Multiphysics for MEMS training manual and it had said it was an older element with no active development. Thank you for the recommendation...

I am trying to simulate a 3d comb-drive structure and have had nothing but trouble. I have used their online resources and found a few examples but haven't been able to pull it all together yet. I guess the first question I would ask you is when you are building your model what kind of process...

Does anyone have experience simulating MEMS (especially multi-coupled electrostatic analysis) in ANSYS that would answer a few questions.

Yeah, if you are using deionized water it wouldn't work, but in this application I highly doubt that they are even considering using deionized water. This would work fine in there sitiuation (unless using deionized) and is really cheap and easy to do.

We used two conductors that were separated and then machined to fit in a piece that was water tight on the back-end. Applied 5V across the terminal in series with a resistor and measured the Voltage across the resistor. When the resistor had voltage, water is there completing the circuit and...