Capillary Forces in Microassembly

Part I. Microassembly Specificities

1. From Conventional Assembly to Microassembly

2. Classification of Forces Acting in the Microworld

3. Handling Principles for Microassembly

4. Conclusions

Part II. Modeling and Simulation of Capillary Forces

5. Introduction

6. First Set of Parameters

7. State of the Art on the Capillary Force Models at Equilibrium

8. Static Simulation at Constant Volume of Liquid

9. Comparisons Between the Capillary Force Models

10. Example 1: Application to the Modeling of a Microgripper for Watch Bearings

11. Second Set of Parameters

12. Limits of the Static Simulation

13. Approaching Contact Distance, Rupture Criteria, and Volume Repartition After Separation

14. Example 2: Numerical Implementation of the Proposed Models

15. Conclusions of the Theoretical Study of Capillary Forces

Part III. Experimental Aspects

16. Introduction

17. Test Bed and Characterization

18. Results

19. Example 3: Application to the Watch Bearing

20. Example 4: Application to the Watch Bearing

21. Conclusions

Part IV. General Conclusions and Perspectives

22. Conclusions and Perspectives

Part V. Appendices

23. Modeling Complements

24. Geometry Complements

25. Comparison Between Both Approaches

26. Symbols

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Keywords: SCIENCE / Chemistry / General SCI013000