Design of Threhold Accelerometer Based on Multisable Mechanism :Doctor of philosophy - Major: Multistable Mechanism

Design of Threshold Accelerometer Based on

Multistable Mechanism

Dung-An Wang

Ngoc Dang Khoa Tran

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First and foremost, I would like to send my deeply gratitude to National Chung

Hsing University, Taiwan for providing me this valuable scholarship for Ph.D. degree

and Ho Chi Minh University of Technology and Education, Vietnam for supporting me

in the researches.

I would like to thank my advisor Prof. Dung-An Wang for his guidance, support and

encouragement. He has mentored, taught and inspired me in my academic as well as

personal life. I express my gratitude for the education that I have received from him. I

am grateful to Professor Thien Ngon Dang. Their comments and suggestions were very

useful.

I would like to acknowledge the help of my fellow Vietnamese and Taiwanese lab

mates for their feedback, cooperation and of course friendship. In addition, I would like

to express my gratitude to the staff of Graduate Institute of Precision Engineering for

the last minute favor.

Finally, I would like to thank my friends for accepting nothing less than excellent

from me. Last but not the least; I am very grateful to my parents, my sister and my

girlfriend for their love, for supporting me spiritually throughout writing this thesis and

encouragement of my academic pursuits, and for always expressing confidence in my

abilities.