An energy harvester using piezoelectric cantilever beams undergoing coupled bending-torsion vibrations

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Abdelkefi, A ^a,b   Najar, F ^a   Nayfeh, A H ^b   Ayed, S Ben ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND ENERGY; BASE EXCITATION; BENDING-TORSION VIBRATION; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; DISTRIBUTED-PARAMETER MODEL; EIGENVALUES; ELECTRICAL POWER; ENERGY HARVESTER; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; GALERKIN; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; GOVERNING EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HAMILTON'S PRINCIPLE; MODE SHAPES; MULTI-FREQUENCY EXCITATION; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVER BEAMS; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY; PIEZOELECTRIC LAYERS; REDUCED ORDER MODELS; TIP MASS; TORSION MOMENTS; TWISTING ANGLE; UNIMORPH; VOLTAGE OUTPUT;

CANTILEVER BEAMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY CONVERSION; EULER EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARVESTERS; HARVESTING; NANOCANTILEVERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PILE FOUNDATIONS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 80155189575     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/20/11/115007     Document Type: Article

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