Analytical approximations to nonlinear vibration of an electrostatically actuated microbeam

Abstract This paper employs the homotopy analysis method (HAM) to derive analytical approximate solutions for the nonlinear problem with high-order nonlinearity. Such a problem corresponds to the large-amplitude vibration of electrostatically actuated microbeams. The HAM is also optimized to accelerate the convergence of approximate solutions. To verify the accuracy of the present approach, illustrative examples are provided and compared with other analytical and exact solutions.

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