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Theoretical and experimental study of capillary condensation and of its possible application in micro-assembly / Etude théorique et expérimentale de la condensation capillaire en vue de son application au micro-assemblage

Nowadays, the assembly of small (<1mm) components has become an industrial reality. Many domains like MEMS, surgery, telecommunications, car industry, etc. now have large use of micro-parts. At this scale, predominant forces are different than in macroworld. The pieces often undergo adhesion problems. The adhesion forces can be splitted in different components :van der Waals, electrostatics and capillary condensation. This work focuses on capillary condensation as it often can be the major component of the adhesion force. <p><p>The first part of this work details a review of literature of different fields involved in capillary condensation. A simulation tool is then implemented and theoretically validated in the second part of the work. Finally, a test bed is presented; this bed is then used to experimentally validate the simulation results.<p><p>Experiments and simulation results are shown to concord. Therefore, the simulation tool can be used to model the force due to capillary condensation. / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ulb.ac.be/oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210619
Date11 December 2007
CreatorsChau, Alexandre
ContributorsDelchambre, Alain, Lambert, Pierre, Degrez, Gérard, Régnier, Stéphane, Lambert, Pierre, Lefeber, Dirk, Delplancke, Marie-Paule
PublisherUniversite Libre de Bruxelles, Université libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des sciences appliquées – Mécanique, Bruxelles
Source SetsUniversité libre de Bruxelles
LanguageFrench
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/vlink-dissertation
Format1 v., 2 full-text file(s): application/pdf | application/pdf
Rights2 full-text file(s): info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

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