Publications de Simon Nessim Henein

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Investigating The Size-Dependent Static And Dynamic Behavior Of Circular Micro-Plates Subjected To Capillary Force

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan

The size-dependent static deflection, pull-in instability and resonant frequency of a circular microplate under capillary force have been studied using modified couple stress elasticity theory. SiZe-dependency is a phenomenon in which the normalized quanti ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2016

Residual stress chevron preloading amplifier for large-stroke stiffness reduction of silicon flexure mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Quentin Gubler

Residual stresses can be advantageously used to permanently preload flexure micro-mechanisms in order to modify their deflection and stiffness. This paper presents a new preloading chevron mechanism (PCM) used to amplify the preloading effect of thin film ...

IOP Publishing2025

Dynamic balancing of a flexure-based Watt's linkage horological oscillator

Simon Nessim Henein, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Florent Cosandier

Mechanical watches are generally regulated by a balance and a spring constituting a harmonic oscillator. This mechanism is intrinsically force-balanced, which makes it essentially insensitive to gravity as well as to the linear accelerations of the watch. ...

Elsevier BV2025

Mechanism balancing taxonomy

Simon Nessim Henein, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Florent Cosandier

The balancing of mechanisms consists in distributing their moving masses, inertias, and elastic components in order to achieve key mechanical properties, such as the elimination of the shaking forces and moments exported onto their supporting structure or ...

2023

Optical measurement method for mechanical time base characterization

Simon Nessim Henein, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann

The recent adoption of silicon components by the mechanical watch industry has triggered the search for new time bases to advantageously replace the traditional balance and hairspring oscillator. In particular, flexure-based oscillators manufactured in sil ...

euspen2021

Two degree of freedom oscillator system

Arnaud André Emmanuel Maurel, Simon Nessim Henein, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan, Billy Nussbaumer

Oscillator system (1) comprising:- a substantially planar frame (3);- a first sub-oscillator (5), a second sub-oscillator (7), a third sub-oscillator (9), and a fourth sub-oscillator (11), each sub-oscillator (5, 7, 9, 11) comprising a substantially rigid ...

2020

A statistical shape model of the human second cervical vertebra

Reto Meuli, Simon Nessim Henein, Charles Baur, Marine Chantal Elisabeth Geneviève Clogenson

Statistical shape and appearance models play an important role in reducing the segmentation processing time of a vertebra and in improving results for 3D model development. Here, we describe the different steps in generating a statistical shape model (SSM) ...

Springer Heidelberg2015

Design of a Flexure Rotational Time Base with Varying Inertia

Simon Nessim Henein, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann

Flexure oscillators are promising time bases thanks to their high quality factor and monolithic design compatible with microfabrication. In mechanical watchmaking, they could advantageously replace the traditional balance and hairspring oscillator, leading ...

2021

Damping of flexure blades based on bi-material additive manufacturing

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Nikola Kalentics, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, Elias Sebastian Klauser

Flexure-based mechanisms have become state-of-the-art solutions for the design of high-precision mechanisms, free from friction wear, backlash, and lubrication. These properties which are necessary for applications in ultraclean or harsh environments, neve ...

2023

Theory and design of spherical oscillator mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Roland Andreas Bitterli, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan, Lennart Rubbert, Billy Nussbaumer, Nicolas Ferrier

In previous work, we showed that two degree of freedom oscillators can be advantageously applied to horological time bases since they can be used to eliminate the escapement mechanism. We subsequently examined planar two degree of freedom oscillators based ...

2018

Foucault pendulum properties of spherical oscillators

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Patrick Robert Flückiger

In 1851 Léon Foucault created a sensation with his pendulum providing a direct demonstration of the turning of the Earth. This simple device consists of a pendulum which is launched in a purely planar orbit. Following Mach's principle of inertia, the mass ...

euspen2020

Programmable Constant-Force Multistable Mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Mohamed Gamal Abdelrahman Ahmed Zanaty

Programmable multistable mechanisms exhibit stability behavior whereby the stiffness and the number of stable states can be controlled via programming inputs. In this paper, we report the zero stiffness behavior of a 2-degree of programming (DOP) T-combine ...

AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS2018

Gravity-Insensitive Flexure Pivot Oscillators

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan, Lennart Rubbert

Classical mechanical watch plain bearing pivots have frictional losses limiting the quality factor of the hairspring-balance wheel oscillator. Replacement by flexure pivots leads to a drastic reduction in friction and an order of magnitude increase in qual ...

2018

TOMCAT: A beamline for TOmographic Microscopy and Coherent rAdiology experimenTs

Simon Nessim Henein, Amela Groso

Synchrotron‐based X‐ray Tomographic Microscopy (SRXTM) is nowadays a powerful technique for non‐destructive, high‐resolution investigations of a broad kind of materials. High‐brilliance and high‐coherence third generation synchrotron radiation facilities a ...

2007

Tuning stiffness nonlinearty: theory and applications

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Mohamed Gamal Abdelrahman Ahmed Zanaty

Perfect elasticity is not achievable in real-life situation, so spring stiffness is not perfectly constant. In this paper, we study the effect of modifying non-linear stiffness terms while keeping the nominal stiffness constant. We introduce three methods ...

ASME2020

Analytical modeling and experimental validation of rotationally actuated pinned–pinned and fixed–pinned buckled beam bistable mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette

Buckled beams have become key building blocks in compliant mechanisms to achieve nonlinear behaviors, such as bistability, constant-force and stiffness tuning. However, designing and modeling such components is challenging due to their highly nonlinear cha ...

2022

Experimental Characterization of a T-Shaped Programmable Multistable Mechanism

Simon Nessim Henein, Mohamed Gamal Abdelrahman Ahmed Zanaty

Programmable multistable mechanisms (PMM) exhibit a modifiable stability behavior in which the number of stable states, stiffness, and reaction force characteristics are controlled via their programming inputs. In this paper, we present experimental charac ...

2018

Reconfigurable Logic Gates Based on Programable Multistable Mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Mohamed Gamal Abdelrahman Ahmed Zanaty

Binary logic gates are building blocks of computing machines, in particular, electronic computers. One variant is the programable logic gate, also known as the reconfigurable logic gate, in which the logical function implemented can be modified. In this pa ...

2020

Zero-force rectilinear flexure-based translation stage: Experimental validations

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette

Compliant mechanisms can advantageously be preloaded by buckled beams in order to reduce their motion stiffness, and therefore also their actuation forces. However, preloading compliant mechanisms has the side-effect of modifying the deformation of their f ...

2025

Flexure Pivot Oscillator With Intrinsically Tuned Isochronism

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan

The most important property for accurate mechanical time bases is isochronism: the independence of period from oscillation amplitude. This paper develops a new concept in isochronism adjustment for flexure-based watch oscillators. Flexure pivot oscillators ...

2020