A contribution on the optimal design of a vibrating cantilever in a power harvesting application - Optimization of piezoelectric layer distributions in combination with advanced harvesting circuits

Engineering Structures

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 92-101

  Schoeftner, Juergen ^a   Buchberger, Gerda ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Design optimization of slender piezoelastic beams; Energy harvesting; Piezoelastic modeling of beams

Indexed keywords

BERNOULLI-EULER BEAM; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; PARABOLIC FUNCTIONS; PIEZOELASTIC BEAMS; PIEZOELASTIC MODELING OF BEAMS; PIEZOELECTRIC LAYERS; SYNCHRONIZED SWITCHING; VIBRATING CANTILEVER BEAMS;

CANTILEVER BEAMS; CIRCUIT THEORY; DESIGN; ELECTRIC LINES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY HARVESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOGIC CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PIEZOELECTRICITY; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VIBRATION;

EID: 84877334414     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2013.03.022     Document Type: Article

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