Vibration energy harvesting system for railroad safety based on running vehicles

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Tianchen, Yuan ^a   Jian, Yang ^a   Ruigang, Song ^a   Xiaowei, Liu ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

drum transducer; piezoelectric effect; track vibration; vibration energy harvesting

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ENERGY HARVESTING; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; RAILROAD TRACKS; RAILROADS; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORS; RAILROAD SAFETY; THEORETICAL MODELING; TRACK VIBRATION; VIBRATION ENERGIES; VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTING; VIBRATION MODEL; WIRELESS SENSOR;

VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84911365191     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/23/12/125046     Document Type: Article

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