A General Equivalent Circuit Model for Piezoelectric Generators

By Niell Elvin, Alex Elvin. 2009

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Design of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems: A Topology Optimization Approach Based on Multilayer Plates and Shells (2009, methodology): “, 2005a, 2007), and in some cases include fully coupled feedback (Lesieutre et al., 2004; Elvin and Elvin, 2009), but for simplification purposes are modeled with a single or multiple degree-of-freedom lumped electromechanical model at resonance.”
Resistive Impedance Matching Circuit for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting (2010, methodology): “Therefore, the effect of the leakage resistance on the overall impedance is neglected in the electrical circuit as done by Erturk and Inman (2008a, 2009) and Elvin and Elvin (2009), among others.”
Broadband piezoelectric power generation on high-energy orbits of the bistable Duffing oscillator with electromechanical coupling (2011, background): “Theoretical and experimental aspects of the linear cantilever design have been investigated extensively in the literature [5,6,13,14].”
An experimentally validated bimorph cantilever model for piezoelectric energy harvesting from base excitations (2009, methodology): “Later, Elvin and Elvin [28] have observed the convergence of the Rayleigh–Ritz type of solution formerly introduced by Hagood et al [19] to the analytical solution given by Erturk and Inman [27] when sufficient number of vibration modes is used with appropriate admissible functions.”
Equivalent Circuit Modeling of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters (2009, methodology): “Compared with the coupled FEA SPICE model given by Elvin and Elvin (2009b), which involves the alternate FEA and SPICE simulation till convergence in each time increment and the computationally expensive pre-process and post-process at each iteration, the proposed approach based on the equivalent ci”
An electromechanical finite element model for piezoelectric energy harvester plates (2009, methodology): “Convergence of the Rayleigh–Ritz type electromechanical solution [10,11,20] to the analytical solution given by Erturk and Inman [24] was observed by Elvin and Elvin [26] when sufficient number of admissible functions were used.”
M-shaped asymmetric nonlinear oscillator for broadband vibration energy harvesting: Harmonic balance analysis and experimental validation (2014, background): “Theoretical and experimental aspects of the linear cantilever design have been investigated extensively in the literature [9,10,20,21].”
Impedance Modeling and Analysis for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems (2012, unknown): “The corresponding resistance, inductance, and capacitance values can be obtained by experimental identification [23]–[25], analytical method [26], or numerical analysis [27].”
A review of energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials: state-of-the-art a decade later (2008–2018) (2019, methodology): “Several researchers have presented such approximate solutions, including duToit et al in 2005 [279], who model a symmetric bimorph with a Rayleigh-Ritz type approximation, Elvin and Elvin in 2009 [287], who model a unimorph with an approximate Rayleigh-Ritz formulation, and Erturk and Inman 2010 [28”
Energy Harvesting from Highly Unsteady Fluid Flows using Piezoelectric Materials (2010, methodology): “Extending the coupled structural electrical approach for piezoelectric generator modeling previously developed by the Elvin and Elvin (2009b) to the method detailed within this article would allow for the non-linear solution of the structural response of the piezoelectric generator using a finite…”
Issues in mathematical modeling of piezoelectric energy harvesters (2008, methodology): “where ∼ (x) is the vector of admissible functions, and the remaining terms can be found in [24].”