Increased energy harvesting and reduced accelerative load for backpacks via frequency tuning

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

Volumn 58, Issue , 2015, Pages 399-415

  Xie, Longhan ^a   Cai, Mingjing ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Frequency tuning; Suspended backpack

Indexed keywords

HARVESTERS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; STIFFNESS;

EXTERNAL EXCITATION; FREQUENCY TUNEABLE; FREQUENCY-TUNING; HARVESTING DEVICES; HARVESTING SYSTEM; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; SUSPENDED BACKPACK; TUNING MECHANISM;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84923083397     PISSN: 08883270     EISSN: 10961216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2015.01.012     Document Type: Article

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