Modeling of strain energy harvesting in pneumatic tires using piezoelectric transducer

Tire Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-34

  Kubba, Ali E ^a   Behroozi, Mohammad ^b   Olatunbosun, Oluremi A ^b   Anthony, Carl ^b   Jiang, Kyle ^b  

^a Fusion Innovations Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Piezoelectric; Strain energy harvesting; Tire deformation; TPMS

Indexed keywords

ABAQUS; DEFORMATION; ENERGY HARVESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; STRAIN ENERGY; TRANSDUCERS;

CYCLIC DEFORMATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HARVESTING ENERGIES; PIEZOELECTRIC; PIEZOELECTRIC FIBER COMPOSITES; TIRE DEFORMATION; TIRE MONITORING SYSTEMS; TPMS;

TIRES;

EID: 84927056053     PISSN: 00908657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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