Contact-less wind turbine utilizing piezoelectric bimorphs with magnetic actuation

Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series

Volumn 3, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 233-243

  Bressers, Scott ^a   Avirovik, Dragan ^a   Lallart, Michael ^a   Inman, D J ^a   Priya, Shashank ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; WIND; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

DIRECT PIEZOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MAGNETIC ACTUATION; MECHANICAL CONTACT; MECHANICAL OSCILLATIONS; PIEZOELECTRIC BIMORPHS; REPULSIVE FORCES; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 80051524715     PISSN: 21915644     EISSN: 21915652     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9834-7_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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