Piezoelectric energy harvesting with a nonlinear energy sink

Y Zhang, L Tang, K Liu - Journal of Intelligent Material …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents a novel piezoelectric energy-harvesting device. Different from the
existing designs in the literature, the proposed device is based on the principle of nonlinear …

Energy harvester synthesis via coupled linear-bistable system with multistable dynamics

Z Wu, RL Harne, KW Wang - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this research we study the dynamics of a coupled linear oscillator-bistable energy
harvester system. The method of harmonic balance and perturbation analysis are used to …

Bistable energy harvesting enhancement with an auxiliary linear oscillator

RL Harne, M Thota, KW Wang - Smart Materials and Structures, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent work has indicated that linear vibrational energy harvesters with an appended
degree-of-freedom (DOF) may be advantageous for introducing new dynamic forms to …

Modeling and Evaluation of a Multi-Stable Hybrid Energy Harvester

H Li, K Liu, J Deng - Vibration, 2024 - mdpi.com
This article develops a multi-stable hybrid energy harvester (MSHEH) which consists of a
piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) and an electromagnetic energy harvester (EMEH). By …

Parameter identification of nonlinear system via a dynamic frequency approach and its energy harvester application

Z Zhang, W Wang, C Wang - Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2020 - Springer
A dynamic frequency-based parameter identification approach is applied for the nonlinear
system with periodic responses. Starting from the energy equation, the presented method …

Exploiting elastically supported masses in cantilever for resonance frequencies down-shifted vibration energy harvester

H Wang, B Li, Y Liu, M Zhang, W Zhao, H Qin - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a piezoelectric vibration energy harvester (PVEH) with resonance
frequencies shifted down by elastically supported masses. The added elastic supporters can …

Scavenging energy from human limb motions

K Fan, B Yu, L Tang - Active and Passive Smart Structures and …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This paper proposes a nonlinear piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) to scavenge energy
from human limb motions. The proposed PEH is composed of a ferromagnetic ball, a sleeve …

Piezoelectric energy harvesting with a nonlinear energy sink

Y Zhang, K Liu, L Tang - Active and Passive Smart Structures …, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A novel piezoelectric energy harvesting device is presented in this paper. Different from the
existing designs, the proposed apparatus is based on the principle of nonlinear energy sink …

Conception de dispositifs piézoélectriques fortement couplés pour la récupération d'énergie vibratoire large bande

D Gibus - 2020 - hal.science
La récupération d'énergie vibratoire s' intéresse à utiliser les vibrations afin d'alimenter des
capteurs sans fil communicants à des emplacements où les piles et les batteries ne peuvent …

Experimental analysis of a piezoelectric energy harvester with internal resonances

PS Varoto - Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the …, 2017 - Springer
A crucial issue in the design process of a piezoelectric harvester is to properly tune the
device to the imposed disturbance such that the mechanical to electrical energy conversion …