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
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ulb.ac.be/oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210619 |
| Date | 11 December 2007 |
| Creators | Chau, Alexandre |
| Contributors | Delchambre, Alain, Lambert, Pierre, Degrez, Gérard, Régnier, Stéphane, Lambert, Pierre, Lefeber, Dirk, Delplancke, Marie-Paule |
| Publisher | Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Université libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des sciences appliquées – Mécanique, Bruxelles |
| Source Sets | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/vlink-dissertation |
| Format | 1 v., 2 full-text file(s): application/pdf | application/pdf |
| Rights | 2 full-text file(s): info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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