A comprehensive review on mechanical amplifier structures in piezoelectric energy harvesters

SX Long, SY Khoo, ZC Ong, MF Soong… - Mechanics of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a comprehensive review of structural optimization for the piezoelectric
energy harvesters by summarizing the characteristics, working principles, advantages …

Energy harvesting using a PZT ceramic multilayer stack

TB Xu, EJ Siochi, JH Kang, L Zuo, W Zhou… - Smart Materials and …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, the interdisciplinary energy harvesting issues on piezoelectric energy
harvesting were investigated using a'33'mode (mechanical stress and/or electric field are in …

An integrated modeling method for piezo-actuated compliant mechanisms

J Lai, L Yu, L Yuan, J Liang, M Ling, R Wang… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2023 - Elsevier
Piezo-actuated compliant mechanisms are widely employed in precision positioning and
micro/nano manipulation due to their advantages of compact structure, high displacement …

Design and experimental analysis of a piezoelectric energy harvester based on stacked piezoceramic for nonharmonic excitations

B Zhang, H Zhou, X Zhao, J Gao, S Zhou - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we propose a stacked piezoceramic piezoelectric energy harvester based on
inertial force excitation (SP-PEH-IFE) to efficiently harvest nonharmonic excitations. Firstly …

Unsteady measurements of periodic effects in a transonic compressor with casing treatments

C Brandstetter, F Wartzek… - Journal of …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Application of nonaxisymmetric casing treatments (CTs) can extend the operating range of a
transonic compressor significantly. Recent CT designs have proven successful at achieving …

Energy harvesting of piezoelectric stack actuator from a shock event

AJ Lee, Y Wang, DJ Inman - … of Vibration and …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The energy harvesting performance of a piezoelectric stack actuator under a shock event is
theoretically and experimentally investigated. The first method is derived from the single …

Design and analysis of a piezoelectric vibration energy harvester using rolling mechanism

HX Zou, WM Zhang, KX Wei… - … of Vibration and …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this paper, a novel piezoelectric vibration energy harvester using rolling mechanism is
presented, with the advantage of harvesting more vibration energy and reducing the impact …

Carbon footprint of piezoelectrics from multi-layer PZT stacks to piezoelectric energy harvesting systems in roads

A Sharafi, C Chen, JQ Sun, MO Fortier - iScience, 2024 - cell.com
Piezoelectric energy harvesting devices (PEHDs) for road installation are being researched
as potentially low-emission electrical generators, but their life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) …

A novel piezoelectric multilayer stack energy harvester with force amplification

W Zhou, L Zuo - International Design Engineering …, 2013 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
A piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) multilayer stack flextensional energy harvester
(PZT-Stack-FEH) was designed and characterized in this paper. An elastic flextensional …

Energy harvesting of a multilayer piezoelectric beam in resonance and off-resonance cases

M Jabbari, M Ghayour… - Journal of …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents to verify the energy harvesting of a nonlinear piezoelectric multilayer
beam under harmonic excitation. For getting the perfect performance in energy harvesting …