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Michele Tonan, Alberto Pasetto and Alberto Doria
In this paper, the possibility of harvesting energy from the vibrations of a plate is analyzed. The harvester takes the form of a cantilever dynamic vibration absorber equipped with a piezoelectric layer and tuned by means of a tip mass to the first mode...
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Basit Abdul, Vincenzo Mariano Mastronardi, Antonio Qualtieri, Luciana Algieri, Francesco Guido, Francesco Rizzi and Massimo De Vittorio
In this paper, we report on the characterization of the sensitivity and the directionality of a novel ultrasonic hydrophone fabricated by micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) process, using aluminum nitride (AlN) thin film as piezoelectric functional ...
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Jorge de-J. Lozoya-Santos, L. C. Félix-Herrán, Juan C. Tudón-Martínez, Adriana Vargas-Martinez and Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza
This work designed and implemented a new low-cost, Internet of Things-oriented, wireless smart sensor prototype to measure mechanical strain. The research effort explores the use of smart materials as transducers, e.g., a magnetorheological elastomer as ...
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Alessandro Speciale, Raffaele Ardito, Marco Baù, Marco Ferrari, Vittorio Ferrari and Attilio A. Frangi
This paper describes a piezoelectric energy harvester employing a snap-through buckling (STB) mechanism for frequency-up conversion (FuC). The harvester consists of two main components: a bistable mechanical structure and one piezoelectric cantilever bea...
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Hamidreza Masoumi, Hamid Moeenfard, Hamed Haddad Khodaparast and Michael I. Friswell
The current research investigates the novel approach of coupling separate energy harvesters in order to scavenge more power from a stochastic point of view. To this end, a multi-body system composed of two cantilever harvesters with two identical piezoel...
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This paper presents a piezoelectric vibration energy harvester (PVEH) with resonance frequencies shifted down by elastically supported masses. The added elastic supporters can diminish the equivalent stiffness of the whole structure, leading to an eviden...
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Mohammad Yaghoub Abdollahzadeh Jamalabadi
In this study, the suppression of wind-induced oscillations of a D-shaped prism mounted on a cantilever beam by means of a positive position feedback (PPF) controller is investigated. The assumed mode method is applied to determine the stiffness, mass an...
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Mohammad Yaghoub Abdollahzadeh Jamalabadi
Galloping beams were exposed to the wind free stream and is used for sustainable wind-power harnessing. In this paper, the effect of tip mass on the performance of a galloping energy harvester is investigated by simple modeling of the system, which is us...
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Yaxuan Su, Xiaohui Lin, Rui Huang and Zhidong Zhou
With the attention focused on harvesting energy from the ambient environment for nanoscale electronic devices, electromechanical coupling effects in materials have been studied for many potential applications. Flexoelectricity can be observed in all diel...
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Mohammad Rasidi Rasani, Hazim Moria, Michael Beer and Ahmad Kamal Ariffin
Flow-induced vibrations of a flexible cantilever plate, placed in various positions behind two side-by-side cylinders, were computationally investigated to determine optimal location for wake-excited energy harvesters. In the present study, the cylinders...
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