Ambient vibration energy harvesters: A review on nonlinear techniques for performance enhancement

N Tran, MH Ghayesh, M Arjomandi - International Journal of Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesters are emerging as a promising solution for powering small-scale
electronics, such as sensors and monitoring devices, especially in applications where …

Extended bandwidth of 2DOF double impact triboelectric energy harvesting: Theoretical and experimental verification

A Ibrahim, M Hassan - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasing the bandwidth of the vibrational energy harvesters is one of the research
emphases to maximize the energy harvested from the ambient. Here we design a Two …

Experimental and theoretical investigation of an impact vibration harvester with triboelectric transduction

A Ibrahim, A Ramini, S Towfighian - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2018 - Elsevier
There has been remarkable interest in triboelectric mechanisms because of their high
efficiency, wide availability, and low-cost generation of sustainable power. Using impact …

[HTML][HTML] Triboelectric energy harvester with large bandwidth under harmonic and random excitations

A Ibrahim, A Ramini, S Towfighian - Energy Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates an approach to impact vibration energy harvesting using a
triboelectric mechanism under harmonic and random excitation. The harvester consists of a …

Energy harvesting from human walking motion using pendulum-based electromagnetic generators

H Sharghi, O Bilgen - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2022 - Elsevier
Wearable devices find many applications in health monitoring, communications, and
entertainment devices; however, battery life is still a major limitation to their functionality. The …

Design, analysis and experimental study of a T-shaped piezoelectric energy harvester with internal resonance

Z Xie, T Wang, CAK Kwuimy, Y Shao… - Smart Materials and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a T-shaped piezoelectric energy harvester (TPEH) is proposed by taking
advantages of internal resonance and multimodal techniques. The developed TPEH is …

Dynamics of transition regime in bistable vibration energy harvesters

A Ibrahim, S Towfighian… - … of vibration and …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Vibration energy harvesting can be an effective method for scavenging wasted mechanical
energy for use by wireless sensors that have limited battery life. Two major goals in …

Nonlinear dynamics of parametrically excited piezoelectric energy harvester with 1: 3 internal resonance

A Garg, SK Dwivedy - International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, the nonlinear dynamic analysis of a parametrically base excited cantilever
beam based piezoelectric energy harvester is carried. The system consists of a cantilever …

Continuous electric field modeling of Macro-Fiber Composites for actuation and energy harvesting

H Sharghi, O Bilgen - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new low-order electric field model for Macro-Fiber Composite devices
with interdigitated electrodes. Specifically, the paper proposes a continuous electric field …

Wave propagation analysis of piezoelectric nanoplates based on the nonlocal theory

LH Ma, LL Ke, YZ Wang, YS Wang - International Journal of …, 2018 - World Scientific
Based on the nonlocal theory, this paper develops the Kirchhoff nanoplate and Mindlin
nanoplate models for the wave propagation analysis of piezoelectric nanoplates. The effects …