A tunable kinetic energy harvester with dynamic over range protection

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Ayala Garcia, I N ^a   Zhu, D ^a   Tudor, M J ^a   Beeby, S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT VIBRATIONS; AXIAL TENSILE FORCES; CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; ELECTROMAGNETIC VIBRATIONS; ENERGY HARVESTER; OPERATIONAL BANDWIDTH; OUTPUT SIGNAL; OVER-RANGE PROTECTION; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHYSICAL DAMAGES; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; SELF-POWERED; SINGLE STRUCTURE; SPRING STIFFNESS; TUNING MECHANISM; VIBRATION SOURCES;

ACCELEROMETERS; HARVESTERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TUNING;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 78649314681     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/19/11/115005     Document Type: Article

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