As the importance of robust design in today’s smaller and thinner electric devices continues to rise, so does the demand for ways of reducing vibration. In order to precisely evaluate an electric device’s vibration characteristics and robustness, it is important to first evaluate these phenomena in the device’s parts individually, because overall characteristics can often be understood by understanding the characteristics of each of its component parts. This Application Note presents how to evaluate the vibration characteristics and robustness of a basic cantilever beam, rather than of an actual electric device.
Electric devices and their individual component parts have eigenmodes that are determined by their mechanical properties and their geometry. Vibration increases when the excitation force resonates with the electromagnetic device’s eigenmode. Also, electric devices and their component parts deform when a load is applied to them. Even in a simple form like a cantilever beam, the displacement direction differs depending on the direction of the load, its position, and the frequency. For this reason, it is necessary to evaluate the eigenmode and displacement for an electric device and its component parts in order to understand these phenomena.
In this Application Note, the displacement is obtained for three simple cantilever beam models with different mesh conditions when their eigenmode or a concentrated load is applied to them, and the displacement is then compared with theoretical values.