Feasibility of structural monitoring with vibration powered sensors

By Niell Elvin, N. Lajnef, Alex Elvin. 2006

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On the Role of Nonlinearities in Vibratory Energy Harvesting: A Critical Review and Discussion (2014, background): “Nonetheless, these wireless sensor networks still require a source of power, and it has been recently demonstrated that the energy harvested from vibrations caused by the flow of traffic over bridges or the swaying of a building due to wind loading provides a feasible approach to power such networks”
Investigation of Power Harvesting via Parametric Excitations (2009, background): “Energy harvesting can also be very practical for powering sensors that monitor the health of structures (Elvin et al., 2006).”
Energy Harvesting from Highly Unsteady Fluid Flows using Piezoelectric Materials (2010, methodology): “…be added into the structural response simply in the form of added stiffness as: m €yt þ c _yt þ kþ 2 C yt ¼ F: ð9Þ In case of small deflections, the excitation force and the corresponding shape of the beam can be approximated by using a Rayleigh Ritz weighted residual method (Elvin et al., 2006).”