A Distributed Parameter Electromechanical Model for Cantilevered Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters

By Alper Erturk, Daniel J. Inman. 2008

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

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An energy harvester using piezoelectric cantilever beams undergoing coupled bending–torsion vibrations (2011, methodology): “The distributed-parameter system is discretized by using either the Rayleigh–Ritz method [14] or the Galerkin method [15, 16].”
Comparison of modeling methods and parametric study for a piezoelectric wind energy harvester (2013, methodology): “For a uniform piezoelectric beam of which the flexural rigidity YI and mass per unit length m are both uniformly distributed [5, 46, 47], ζr can be simply expressed as ζr = csIωr/2YI + ca/2mωr.”
Piezoelectric energy harvesting from broadband random vibrations (2009, methodology): “A more detailed model, along with correction factors for a single-degree-of-freedom model that accounts for distributed mass effects, was given by Erturk and Inman [21–24].”
Energy harvesting using a PZT ceramic multilayer stack (2013, neutral): “more attention [9, 10, 40–45].”
Nonlinear nonconservative behavior and modeling of piezoelectric energy harvesters including proof mass effects (2012, background): “Erturk and Inman (2008a, 2009a) later published linear models for both unimorph and bimorph harvesters transmitting a proof mass and both a translational and a small rotary base excitation.”
An experimentally validated bimorph cantilever model for piezoelectric energy harvesting from base excitations (2009, methodology): “(22) The forward coupling term κr has important consequences as discussed by Erturk et al [27, 32] extensively.”
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].”
Piezoaeroelastic Modeling and Analysis of a Generator Wing with Continuous and Segmented Electrodes (2010, methodology): “More recently, analytical distributed parameter solutions for unimorph and bimorph piezoelectric energy harvester configurations with closedform expressions have been presented (Erturk and Inman, 2008b, 2009).”
High-performance piezoelectric wind energy harvester with Y-shaped attachments (2019, background): “experimentally verified to play an overwhelming role in vibration energy harvesting [43, 44].”
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”
Equivalent Circuit Modeling of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters (2009, methodology): “Here we give a brief introduction of the distributed parameter model for a simple cantilevered unimorph harvester, established by Erturk and Inman (2008a).”
The performance of a self-excited fluidic energy harvester (2012, background): “, the half-thickness of a piezoelectric element [9, 10].”
Beam Shape Optimization for Power Harvesting (2010, methodology): “Reprints and permissions: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav constitutive laws to the Euler Bernoulli beam deformation equation on both unimorph (Erturk and Inman, 2008) and bimorph (Erturk and Inman, 2009) configurations.”
Experimental and theoretical studies on MEMS piezoelectric vibrational energy harvesters with mass loading (2012, methodology): “The distributed-parameter systems are also used in modeling [7,18,19] the flexural wave propagations.”