Evaluation of the energy harvestable from an airless tire equipped with piezoelectric bimorphs on the lamellar spokes

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 79-84

  Suciu, Claudiu Valentin ^a   Koyanagi, Keisuke ^a  

^a FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airless tire; Bending and buckling; Energy harvesting; Generated electrical power; Piezoelectric bimorph; Spoke

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892167050     PISSN: 15094553     EISSN: 18998852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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