Self-powered smart blade: Helicopter blade energy harvesting

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7643, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Bryant, Matthew ^a   Fang, Austin ^a   Garcia, Ephrahim ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Aeroelasticity; Energy harvesting; Flutter; Helicopters; Piezoelectricity; Power harvesting; Self powered

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC FORCES; AEROELASTIC FLUTTER; COUPLED EQUATION; DYNAMIC STALLS; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; FLUTTER; HELICOPTER BLADES; HELICOPTER ROTOR BLADES; LIMIT CYCLE; LOW SPEED; MODEL RESULTS; NON-LINEAR AERODYNAMICS; NONLINEAR EFFECT; POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS; POWER HARVESTING; SELF-POWERED; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SLIP RINGS; SMART BLADES; WIND SPEED; WIND TUNNEL TESTS; WIRELESS SENSING; WIRELESS SENSOR;

AEROELASTICITY; CONCRETE BRIDGES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELASTIC WAVES; FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS); FORECASTING; GAS DYNAMICS; HARVESTING; HELICOPTER ROTORS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SENSORS; SPEED; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VORTEX SHEDDING; WIND POWER;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 77953484194     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.847310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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