Implementation of a piezoelectric energy harvester in railway health monitoring

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9061, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Li, Jingcheng ^a   Jang, Shinae ^a   Tang, Jiong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; ENERGY HARVESTING; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS;

EXCITATION FREQUENCY; FULL-SCALE FIELD TESTS; PIEZOELECTRIC ARRAYS; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTERS; VIBRATION-BASED ENERGY HARVESTERS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE; WIRELESS SENSOR TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS SMART SENSORS;

RAILROADS;

EID: 84902190960     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2045224     Document Type: Conference Paper

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