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2.2.1. Thermal conduction shape-factor The technique for modeling the heat transfer in a thermal actuator beam is a 1-dimensional solution along the beam length. It assumes that the temperature is uniform across the beam cross-section and is appropriate as the cross-sectional dimension is typically…