Drop Test Simulation of a Cordless Mouse

Portable, hand-held electronic devices have become commonplace due to their small size and light weight. It is inevitable that such devices will occasionally experience the shock loading associated with being dropped. Ac-counting for this loading scenario in the design process, both analytically and experimentally, allows for the devel-opment of more durable products. The ability to simulate drop-type loading reliably reduces the dependency on experimental testing. Abaqus/Explicit has been used ex-tensively to examine the behavior of electronic devices experiencing mechanical shock loading.