Low-power circuits and energy harvesting for structural health monitoring of bridges

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 709-722

  Wardlaw, Jason Lee ^a,b   Karaman, Ibrahim ^c   Karşilayan, Aydin Ilker ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cirrus Logic   (United States)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog to digital converter (ADC); energy harvesting; magnetic shape memory alloy; power scavenging; rectifier; structural health monitoring

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING CURRENT; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; BRIDGE MONITORING; CMOS PROCESSS; CO-DESIGNS; DIFFERENTIAL NONLINEARITY; DIRECT CURRENT VOLTAGE; INTEGRAL NONLINEARITY; LEAST SIGNIFICANT BITS; LOW-POWER CIRCUIT; MAGNETIC SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PICK-UP COILS; POWER CONDITIONING; RECTIFIER; SAR ADC; SELF-POWERED; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION REGISTER ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER; SUPPLY VOLTAGES; WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEM; WIRELESS TRANSMITTER;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ENERGY HARVESTING; SENSORS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84873114410     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2012.2226712     Document Type: Article

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