A review of energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials: state-of-the-art a decade later (2008–2018)

M Safaei, HA Sodano, SR Anton - Smart materials and structures, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Energy harvesting technologies have been explored by researchers for more than two
decades as an alternative to conventional power sources (eg batteries) for small-sized and …

A systematic review of piezoelectric materials and energy harvesters for industrial applications

A Aabid, MA Raheman, YE Ibrahim, A Anjum, M Hrairi… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the last three decades, smart materials have become popular. The piezoelectric materials
have shown key characteristics for engineering applications, such as in sensors and …

A comparative review of multiscale models for effective properties of nano-and micro-composites

A Elmasry, W Azoti, SA El-Safty, A Elmarakbi - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Modelling and simulation techniques are now considered an essential practice for the
materials industry. In order to gain insight into factors that can affect the final properties of a …

Triboelectric nanogenerators for energy harvesting in ocean: A review on application and hybridization

A Matin Nazar, KJ Idala Egbe, A Abdollahi… - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
With recent advancements in technology, energy storage for gadgets and sensors has
become a challenging task. Among several alternatives, the triboelectric nanogenerators …

Numerical homogenization of a linearly elastic honeycomb lattice structure and comparison with analytical and experimental results

M Moeini, M Begon, M Lévesque - Mechanics of Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a verification and validation analysis of Finite Element (FE) models
predicting the mechanical response of linearly elastic honeycomb structures. We have …

Shear waves in a piezo-fiber-reinforced-poroelastic composite structure with sandwiched functionally graded buffer layer: Power series approach

S Singh, AK Singh, S Guha - European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 2022 - Elsevier
Love wave sensors are highly sensitive devices owing to the concentration of acoustic
energy within a few wavelengths of the surface. The basic model of these high-performance …

Electric field distribution in porous piezoelectric materials during polarization

G Martínez-Ayuso, MI Friswell, HH Khodaparast… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
High piezoelectric coupling coefficients enable the harvesting of more energy or increase
the sensitivity of sensors which work using the principle of piezoelectricity. These coefficients …

Perspective on porous piezoelectric ceramics to control internal stress

X Zhou, K Zhou, D Zhang, C Bowen, Q Wang… - Nanoenergy …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to the unique electromechanical energy conversion capability of ferroelectric materials,
they have been at the forefront of materials science for a variety of applications such as …

Generalized thermo-mechanical framework for heterogeneous materials through asymptotic homogenization

B Vazic, BE Abali, P Newell - Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 2023 - Springer
A fundamental understanding of the interaction between microstructure and underlying
physical mechanisms is essential, especially for developing more accurate multi-physics …

A representative volume element model to evaluate the effective properties of flexoelectric nanocomposite

KM Hamdia - European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, a computational homogenization approach is developed to investigate the
effective material properties of flexoelectric nanocomposites. The analysis incorporates the …