So I'm doing research with MEMs so we're going to be making silicon wafers that will have little cantilever beams on them which will act as an accelerometer. I need to design it so the beams break at certain forces but to do that I need the yield strength of silicon (that is the correct...
Here's the issue. I'm doing some research involving MEMs where we will be making micro-accelerometers using cantilever beams with a proof mass on the end. I want to design these beams to break at specific accelerations (2 G's, 5 G's, 10 G's etc.) and I'm not sure how to go about this. My...