A passively tunable mechanism for a dual bimorph energy harvester with variable tip stiffness and axial load

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Niri, E Dehghan ^a   Salamone, S ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL STIFFNESS; ENERGY HARVESTER; EULER BERNOULLI BEAMS; FREE END; LARGE PROOF MASS; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SLIDING MECHANISM; TIP MASS; VERY LOW FREQUENCY;

AXIAL LOADS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 84870278088     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/21/12/125025     Document Type: Article

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