Output details
15 - General Engineering
Swansea University
Article title
Sensor shape design for piezoelectric cantilever beams to harvest vibration energy
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Journal of Applied Physics
Article number
-
Volume number
108
Issue number
1
First page of article
014901
ISSN of journal
0021-8979
Year of publication
2010
URL
-
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
A common device for energy harvesting is a resonant cantilever beam with a piezoelectric patch to generate power. Usually this patch is rectangular and covers the whole beam; this paper showed that shaping the piezoelectric material can significant increase the power generated. This was an early paper on piezoelectric energy harvesting that lead to collaborations with Virginia Tech (USA) and the Lublin University of Technology (Poland), and a Royal Society International Joint Project with IIT Madras (India). Recent work has concentrated on the analysis and optimisation of nonlinear harvesters with piezoelectric sensors for random excitation.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
Research group
J - Aero - Structures
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
