Design of a piezoelectric harvester fixed under the roof of a high-rise building

Engineering Structures

Volumn 117, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-9

  Xie, X D ^a   Wang, Q ^b,c  

^a HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; High rise buildings; Piezoelectric generators; Root mean square (RMS); Seismic motions

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY HARVESTING; HARVESTERS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NANOCANTILEVERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; ROOFS;

HIGH RISE BUILDING; ITERATION METHOD; PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORS; PIEZOELECTRIC HARVESTER; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SEISMIC MOTIONS; THEORETICAL MODELING; UNDER THE ROOFS;

TALL BUILDINGS;

CONSOLIDATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POWER GENERATION; ROOF; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 84961125349     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: 18737323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2016.03.018     Document Type: Article

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