Optimum Piezoelectric Bending Beam Structures for Energy Harvesting using Shoe Inserts

By Loreto Mateu, Francesc Moll. 2005

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Solutions (2014, background): “Therefore, alternative mechanical structures were investigated in order to prevent overstrain [7,47,81,82].”
Kinetic Energy Harvesting Using Piezoelectric and Electromagnetic Technologies—State of the Art (2010, methodology): “For PVDF inserts, under similar test conditions, the simply supported asymmetric bimorph beam with a distributed load can generate the maximum strain, and the power harvested is the highest [8].”
A review of power harvesting using piezoelectric materials (2003–2006) (2007, unknown): “In a similar study, Mateu and Moll (2005) analyzed a homogeneous bimorph which contained two pieces of piezoelectric material bonded to each other, a heterogeneous bimorph that contained two pieces of piezoelectric material bonded on either side of a non-piezoelectric material that simply provided…”
Characterization of different beam shapes for piezoelectric energy harvesting (2008, background): “It has been proposed that the optimum beam shape for stress homogenization is triangle [8].”
Vibration energy scavenging via piezoelectric bimorphs of optimized shapes (2010, background): “Important contributions relating to the design of optimized piezoelectric vibration scavenging devices were identified in literature (Priya and Inman 2009; Erturk and Inman 2008, 2009; Goldschmidtboeing and Woias 2008; Guyomar et al. 2005; Mateu and Moll 2005; Roundy and Wright 2004; Roundy et al. 2”
Powering MEMS portable devices—a review of non-regenerative and regenerative power supply systems with special emphasis on piezoelectric energy harvesting systems (2008, methodology): “The second shoe insert design [278] was also made of a PVDF bimorph subjected to 31-mode loading conditions.”
Design and performance of variable-shaped piezoelectric energy harvesters (2014, background): “Mateu and Moll (2005) presented a brief analytical comparison between a rectangular cantilever and a triangular cantilever with the large end clamped and the small end free.”
A review on energy harvesting approaches for renewable energies from ambient vibrations and acoustic waves using piezoelectricity (2017, background): “However, in a study, Mateu et al [65] found that the triangular shaped cantilever beam can offer higher tip deflection compared to the rectangular beam because of its narrow free end.”
Energy harvesting vibration sources for microsystems applications (2006, unknown): “PVDF inserts have more recently been studied analytically by Mateu [48] who compared homogeneous (two layers of PVDF bonded together) with heterogeneous beams (PVDF bimorph) with different boundary conditions (cantilever and simply supported) and both rectangular and triangular shapes.”
Power Approaches for Implantable Medical Devices (2015, background): “The piezoelectric transducer is integrated in moving locations such as joints, whole-body center mass motion, muscle twitches and into shoes [98,100–103].”
An improved analysis of the SSHI interface in piezoelectric energy harvesting (2007, background): “As a result, piezoelectric elements for scavenging energy from ambient vibration sources have been used in various types of structures to serve specific purposes, including the use of resonant piezoelectric-based structures of cantilever beam configuration [1, 11, 14, 23, 40, 51, 54] as well as plat”
Parylene-based electret power generators (2008, unknown): “There are many possible energy sources in our daily life such as human/animal motions [11, 13, 19], human/animal body heat [23], natural vibrations and vibrations of moving vehicles [4, 18, 25], etc.”