Magnetostrictive actuators play an important role in the perception of usefulness of smart
materials and devices. Their applications are potentially wider than that of piezoelectric …

An extensive growth in the application of ferromagnetic materials require a firm theoretical
understanding of the material behavior to accomplish accurate model prediction. The aim of …

The proposal of Energy Harvesting (EH) techniques and devices has experienced a
significant growth over the last years, because of the spread of low power electronic devices …

Kinetic energy harvesting devices based on magnetostrictive materials are composed of
several parts, for dealing with multiphysics, including mechanical, magnetic, and electric …

Trust-region methods have yielded state-of-the-art results in policy search. A common
approach is to use KL-divergence to bound the region of trust resulting in a natural gradient …

This paper utilizes a thermodynamic approach based on Helmholtz free energy density and
a finite element (FE) model to analyze a galfenol-based magnetostrictive energy harvesting …

We present a model of, and analysis of an optimization problem for, a magnetostrictive
harvesting device which converts mechanical energy of the repetitive process such as …

Multifunctional materials have tremendous potential for engineering applications as they are
able to convert mechanical to electromagnetic energy and vice-versa. One of the features of …

We consider gradient systems with an increasing potential that depends on a scalar
parameter. As the parameter is varied, critical points of the potential can be eliminated or …

Describing macroscopic samples made of composite material requires the development of
an effective macro-continuum model where properties and microscopic arrangement of …