Enhancing Power Harvesting using a Tuned Auxiliary Structure

By P. Cornwell, J. Goethal, J. Kowko, M. Damianakis. 2005

141 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e3b70559eabca7dce3f0f40dcfcde4e3ff9ca24e

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Daniel J. Inman
2. Alper Erturk
3. I. Lien
4. Y. C. Shu
5. W. Wu
6. Lihua Tang
7. Yaowen Yang
8. William S. Hodgkiss

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Alper Erturk
2. Daniel J. Inman
3. I. Lien
4. Y. C. Shu
5. Lei Zuo
6. Gyuhae Park
7. W. Wu
8. Charles R. Farrar

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Daniel J. Inman
2. Alper Erturk
3. I. Lien
4. Y. C. Shu
5. W. Wu
6. Lei Zuo
7. Abdessattar Abdelkefi
8. Charles R. Farrar

Citations in the corpus

• Energy Harvesting for Structural Health Monitoring Sensor Networks (2008, background): “[116] adjusted various mechanical parameters, including the resonant frequency and the location of a harvester, to maximize the strain induced in the piezoelectric element in order to improve power output.”
• An efficient vibration energy harvester with a multi-mode dynamic magnifier (2011, background): “Cornwell et al [20] connected the tuned energy harvester as an auxiliary beam to a three-story building-like structure and magnified the power over a wider bandwidth around the first natural frequency.”
• Analysis of power output for piezoelectric energy harvesting systems (2006, background): “Similar works based on cantilever-based devices using piezoelectric materials to scavenge vibration energy include [4, 25, 26, 51, 53].”
• Issues in mathematical modeling of piezoelectric energy harvesters (2008, methodology): “Although it is not the case in Cornwell et al [32], for a piezoceramic patch having 20% of the total beam length located at the root (which is a very preferable location due to the large mechanical strain at the root), the voltage prediction with static deflection pattern may yield an error larger t”
• 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”