An experimentally validated bimorph cantilever model for piezoelectric energy harvesting from base excitations

By Alper Erturk, Daniel J. Inman. 2009

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Rotational energy harvesting using bi-stability and frequency up-conversion for low-power sensing applications: Theoretical modelling and experimental validation (2019, methodology): “Details about the solution of the equations can be found in [47,48].”
Broadband piezoelectric power generation on high-energy orbits of the bistable Duffing oscillator with electromechanical coupling (2011, background): “Several researchers have reported their work on modeling and applications of vibration-based energy harvesting using electromagnetic [1,2], electrostatic [3,4], piezoelectric [5,6] and magnetostrictive [7,8] transduction mechanisms.”
Global nonlinear distributed-parameter model of parametrically excited piezoelectric energy harvesters (2012, background): “Many studies on such configurations have been performed with the objective of maximizing the harvested electrical power [16–20].”
Underwater thrust and power generation using flexible piezoelectric composites: an experimental investigation toward self-powered swimmer-sensor platforms (2011, background): “For instance, the conventional bimorph with a tip mass attachment in Erturk and Inman [60] has a peak power of 23.9 mW g−2 (linear estimate) for excitation at 45.6 Hz.”
The performance of a self-excited fluidic energy harvester (2012, background): “, the half-thickness of a piezoelectric element [9, 10].”
Piezoelectric energy harvesting from concurrent vortex-induced vibrations and base excitations (2014, background): “For series connections of the piezoelectric sheets, the electric field is related to the voltage, V (t), by E3 = −V (t)/2tp, where tp is the thickness of the piezoelectric sheet [39].”
Revisit of series-SSHI with comparisons to other interfacing circuits in piezoelectric energy harvesting (2010, positive): “A number of research efforts based on the distributed parameter methods have been made for analyzing a vibrating piezoelectric structure connected to a single resistor [4, 8, 9, 16, 43].”
Performance analysis of galloping-based piezoaeroelastic energy harvesters with different cross-section geometries (2014, background): “…voltage, L1 is the distance from the left end of cantilever beam to the starting location of the piezoelectric sheet, L2 is the distance from the left end of cantilever beam to the ending location of the piezoelectric sheet, and qp is the piezoelectric coupling term (Erturk and Inman, 2009).”
Design and performance of variable-shaped piezoelectric energy harvesters (2014, background): “The top layer is a piezoelectric layer (PZT-5A; Abdelkefi et al., 2011; Erturk and Inman, 2009) and has a thickness hp, as shown in Figure 1.”
Modeling and nonlinear analysis of piezoelectric energy harvesting from transverse galloping (2013, methodology): “This contribution is represented by [13–15] θp(H(x−L1)−H(x−L2))V(t) where H(x) is the Heaviside step function, V(t) is the harvested voltage, L1 is the distance from the left end of cantilever beam”