The effects of width reduction on the damping of a cantilever beam and its application in increasing the harvesting power of piezoelectric energy harvester

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Dayou, Jedol ^a   Kim, Jaehwan ^b   Im, Jongbeom ^b   Zhai, Lindong ^b   How, Aaron Ting Chuan ^a   Liew, Willey Y H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

ambient vibration; energy conversion; MEMS; piezoelectric energy harvester; structural damping; width splitting method

Indexed keywords

CANTILEVER BEAMS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY HARVESTING; MEMS; NANOCANTILEVERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

AMBIENT VIBRATIONS; ARRAY OF CANTILEVERS; ITS APPLICATIONS; OUTPUT POWER; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTERS; STRUCTURAL DAMPING; WIDTH REDUCTION; WIDTH-SPLITTING;

DAMPING;

EID: 84925708838     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/24/4/045006     Document Type: Article

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