A survey on ambient energy sources and harvesting methods for structural health monitoring applications

Advances in Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1-14

  Cao, Shihua ^a   Li, Jianqing ^a  

^a MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

Author keywords

ambient energy; double resonant coil; Energy harvesting; ferrite rod antenna; radio frequency; structural health monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018343072     PISSN: 16878132     EISSN: 16878140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1687814017696210     Document Type: Review

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