Patent ID: 8175855

Claim:
A system for the design of a mechanical resonant (MR) device, comprising: a processor; a storage media coupled with the processor; an input device coupled with the processor; an application program executed by the processor for simulating uncoupled elastic vibration of the MR device design to produce simulated dilatation of the MR device, wherein said application program collects data input by a user relating to dilatation and maximum stored elastic vibration energy of the MR device design; determines internal heat source data of the MR device caused by dilatation based on the thermal expansion effect of the MR device material, wherein said internal heat source data is submitted, along with transient heat conduction data input by a user, to an engine to simulate and determine the temperature variation within the MR device and the thermoelastic damping over one cycle of vibration of the MR device; wherein the application program determines a quality factor relating to thermoelastic damping as a function of the thermoelastic damping over one cycle of vibration of the MR device and the maximum elastic vibration energy stored over one cycle of vibration; and wherein the MR device is made from an anisotropic material and the application program simulates and determines the temperature variation within the MR device and the thermoelastic damping over one cycle of vibration of the device using the equation Δ ⁢ ⁢ Q = ∫ 0 t 0 ⁢ ∫ V ⁢ [ κ ] ⁢ ∇ θ · ∇ θ T 0 · ⅆ v · ⅆ t where t 0 is a time period of the one cycle of vibration, κ is thermal conductivity, T 0 is an absolute initial temperature at a point in the MR device, θ is temperature variation, and V is volume of the MR device.