An energy harvester using piezoelectric cantilever beams undergoing coupled bending–torsion vibrations

By Abdessattar Abdelkefi, Fehmi Najar, Ali H. Nayfeh, S. B. Ayed. 2011

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

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Theoretical modeling and nonlinear analysis of piezoelectric energy harvesting from vortex-induced vibrations (2014, background): “In view of Euler–Bernoulli beam theory and Hamilton’s principle, Abdelkefi et al. (2011) converted part of the base excitation force into a torsion moment as well as the bending moment.”
Piezoelectric energy harvesting from vortex-induced vibrations of circular cylinder (2013, background): “The existence of an optimum value for the load resistance for which the highest levels of harvested power are obtained has been observed in the literature of piezoelectric energy harvesting from ambient vibrations (based on cantilever beams) [46,47] and from aeroelastic vibrations (based on wings) [”
Modeling and nonlinear analysis of piezoelectric energy harvesting from transverse galloping (2013, background): “coupling and is always real and negative, as in the case of piezoelectric systems subjected to base or aeroelastic excitations [16, 32, 33, 21].”
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.”
Piezoelectric energy harvesting from concurrent vortex-induced vibrations and base excitations (2014, methodology): “For the same purpose, different techniques have been employed, such as beam geometry [10,11], multimodal systems [12,13], magnetic coupling [14–16], and bistable configurations [17–19].”
Broadband energy harvesting using acoustic black hole structural tailoring (2014, background): “Cantilever unimorphs [2] and bimorphs [3, 4], proof mass systems [5] and electromagnetic enhanced designs [6] are only a few examples of linear, resonance-based mechanisms developed to convert structure borne vibrations into storable electrical energy.”
Modeling and analysis of piezoaeroelastic energy harvesters (2012, background): “Energy harvesting through conversion of ambient vibrations to electrical power has been the subject of many studies over the past two decades [1–6].”
Piezoelectric energy harvesting from transverse galloping of bluff bodies (2012, methodology): “To date, most of the proposed energy harvesting devices from mechanical vibrations have concentrated on exploiting ambient vibrations [10–17].”