Improving the performance of a piezoelectric energy harvester using a variable thickness beam

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Paquin, Simon ^a   St Amant, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; BIMORPH CANTILEVER; ELECTROMECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; MAXIMAL STRAIN; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; MECHANICAL MODEL; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PIEZO-ELECTRIC EFFECTS; PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY; RAYLEIGH; RITZ APPROXIMATION; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; SLOPE ANGLES; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS; TAPERED BEAM; TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS; VARIABLE THICKNESS; VIBRATING STRUCTURES;

CANTILEVER BEAMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HARVESTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOCANTILEVERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PILE FOUNDATIONS; THICKNESS CONTROL;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 78649237429     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/19/10/105020     Document Type: Article

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