Design and characterization of an electromagnetic energy harvester for vehicle suspensions

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Zuo, Lei ^a   Scully, Brian ^a   Shestani, Jurgen ^a   Zhou, Yu ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR DRAG; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN PARAMETERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FOUR-PHASE; FUEL ENERGY; LINEAR GENERATORS; MAGNETIC LOOPS; RARE EARTH PERMANENT MAGNET; ROAD FRICTION; ROAD IRREGULARITIES; SUSPENSION VELOCITY; THEORETICAL MODELS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TOTAL ENERGY; VEHICLE ACCELERATION; VIBRATION AMPLITUDE; VIBRATION ENERGIES; WAVE FORMS;

AUTOMOBILE SHOCK ABSORBERS; AUTOMOBILE SUSPENSIONS; DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY HARVESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARVESTERS; INSTRUMENT SCALES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTIMIZATION; RETROFITTING; ROADS AND STREETS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS; VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT;

EID: 77949910828     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/19/4/045003     Document Type: Article

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