Piezoelectric energy harvesting from highly flexible cantilever beam

2018 ◽  
Vol 233 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-92
Author(s):  
Sam Fallahpasand ◽  
Morteza Dardel
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Cantilever Beam ◽  
External Source ◽  
Flexible Beam ◽  
Chaotic Oscillations ◽  
Nonlinear Beam ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
Highly Nonlinear ◽  
Strain Model

In many studies, linear or small deflections according to Von Karman strain model are used for energy harvesting of beam’s structures. Analyses of these types are not reliable when deformations become large. In this work, an integro-differential equation of highly flexible cantilever beam with a piezoelectric layer is presented. The harvester is composed of a thin flexible beam with attached piezoceramic which undergoes large deformations. Periodic and chaotic oscillations and their effects on the quality of harvesting energy procedure are investigated. The obtained results showed that chaotic oscillations improve energy harvesting. This means that large deflections in high-flexible electromechanical systems let harvester to gather more energy from the external source in a much wider frequency domain. Fast Fourier transform shows the emerging lots of resonance peaks in the chaotic region, which give cascade of resonances for this highly nonlinear beam. Moreover, it is discussed how this mechanism and its frequency characteristics enhances the quality and quantity of energy harvesting. The present study show how increasing the flexibility of structure can lead to high deflection and obtaining broadband energy harvesting with better energy harvesting characteristics.

A Creative Vibration Energy Harvesting System to Support a Self-Powered Internet of Thing (IoT) Network in Smart Bridge Monitoring

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saman Farhangdoust ◽  
Claudia Mederos ◽  
Behrouz Farkiani ◽  
Armin Mehrabi ◽  
Hossein Taheri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Cantilever Beam ◽  
Average Power ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Laser Vibrometer ◽  
Stay Cable ◽  
Fe Modelling ◽  
Vibration Energy Harvesting ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
Energy Harvesting System

Abstract This paper presents a creative energy harvesting system using a bimorph piezoelectric cantilever-beam to power wireless sensors in an IoT network for the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The bimorph piezoelectric energy harvester (BPEH) comprises a cantilever beam as a substrate sandwiched between two piezoelectric layers to remarkably harness ambient vibrations of an inclined stay cable and convert them into electrical energy when the cable is subjected to a harmonic acceleration. To investigate and design the bridge energy harvesting system, a field measurement was required for collecting cable vibration data. The results of a non-contact laser vibrometer is used to remotely measure the dynamic characteristics of the inclined cables. A finite element study is employed to simulate a 3-D model of the proposed BPEH by COMSOL Multiphasics. The FE modelling results showed that the average power generated by the BPEH excited by a harmonic acceleration of 1 m/s2 at 1 Hz is up to 614 μW which satisfies the minimum electric power required for the sensor node in the proposed IoT network. In this research a LoRaWAN architecture is also developed to utilize the BPEH as a sustainable and sufficient power resource for an IoT platform which uses wireless sensor networks installed on the bridge stay cables to collect and remotely transfer bridge health monitoring data over the bridge in a low-power manner.

Multimodal Energy Harvesting System: Piezoelectric and Electromagnetic

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 625-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonas Tadesse ◽  
Shujun Zhang ◽  
Shashank Priya
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Resonance Frequency ◽  
Permanent Magnet ◽  
Cantilever Beam ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Finite Element Software ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
Energy Harvesting System ◽  
Tip Mass

In this study, we report a multimodal energy harvesting device that combines electromagnetic and piezoelectric energy harvesting mechanism. The device consists of piezoelectric crystals bonded to a cantilever beam. The tip of the cantilever beam has an attached permanent magnet which, oscillates within a stationary coil fixed to the top of the package. The permanent magnet serves two purpose (i) acts as a tip mass for the cantilever beam and lowers the resonance frequency, and (ii) acts as a core which oscillates between the inductive coils resulting in electric current generation through Faraday's effect. Thus, this design combines the energy harvesting from two different mechanisms, piezoelectric and electromagnetic, on the same platform. The prototype system was optimized using the finite element software, ANSYS, to find the resonance frequency and stress distribution. The power generated from the fabricated prototype was found to be 0.25 W using the electromagnetic mechanism and 0.25 mW using the piezoelectric mechanism at 35 g acceleration and 20 Hz frequency.

Hybrid-Bistable Vibration Energy Harvester With Adaptive Potential Well

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinki Kim ◽  
Patrick Dorin ◽  
K. W. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Potential Energy ◽  
Cantilever Beam ◽  
Potential Barrier ◽  
Energy Barrier ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Vibration Energy ◽  
Frequency Spectra ◽  
Potential Energy Barrier ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy

Many common environmental vibration sources exhibit low and broad frequency spectra. In order to exploit such excitations, energy harvesting architectures utilizing nonlinearity, especially bistability, have been widely studied since the energetic interwell oscillations between their stable equilibria can provide enhanced power harvesting capability over a wider bandwidth compared to the linear counterpart. However, one of the limitations of these nonlinear architectures is that the interwell oscillation regime may not be activated for a low excitation level that is not strong enough to overcome the potential energy barrier, thus resulting in low amplitude intrawell response which provides poor energy harvesting performance. While the strategic integration of bistability and additional dynamic elements has shown potential to improve broadband energy harvesting performance by lowering the potential barrier, there is a clear opportunity to further improve the energy harvesting performance by extracting electrical power from the kinetic energy in the additional element that is induced when the potential barrier is lowered. To explore this opportunity and advance the state of the art, this research develops a novel hybrid bistable vibration energy harvesting system with a passive mechanism that not only adaptively lowers the potential energy barrier level to improve broadband performance but also exploits additional means to capture more usable electrical power. The proposed harvester is comprised of a cantilever beam with repulsive magnets, one attached at the free end and the other attached to a linear spring that is axially aligned with the cantilever (a spring-loaded magnet oscillator). This new approach capitalizes on the adaptive bistable potential that is passively realized by the spring-loaded magnet oscillator, which lowers the double-well potential energy barrier thereby facilitating the interwell oscillations of the cantilever across a broad range of excitation conditions, especially for low excitation amplitudes and frequencies. The interwell oscillation of the cantilever beam enhances not only the piezoelectric energy harvesting from the beam but also the electromagnetic energy harvesting from the spring-loaded magnet oscillator by inducing large amplitude vibrations of the magnet oscillator. Numerical investigations found that the proposed architecture yields significantly enhanced energy harvesting performance compared to the conventional bistable harvester with fixed magnet.

Embedded Metamaterial Subframe Patch for Increased Power Output of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Saman Farhangdoust ◽  
Gary Georgeson ◽  
Jeong-Beom Ihn ◽  
Armin Mehrabi
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Cantilever Beam ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Piezoelectric Element ◽  
Energy Harvesters ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
Harvesting Systems ◽  
Host Structure ◽  
Self Powered ◽  
Low Efficiency

Abstract These days, piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) is introduced as one of the clean and renewable energy sources for powering the self-powered sensors utilized for wireless condition monitoring of structures. However, low efficiency is the biggest drawback of the PEHs. This paper introduces an innovative embedded metamaterial subframe (MetaSub) patch as a practical solution to address the low throughput limitation of conventional PEHs whose host structure has already been constructed or installed. To evaluate the performance of the embedded MetaSub patch (EMSP), a cantilever beam is considered as the host structure in this study. The EMSP transfers the auxetic behavior to the piezoelectric element (PZT) wherever substituting a regular beam with an auxetic beam is either impracticable or suboptimal. The concept of the EMSP is numerically validated, and the COMSOL Multiphysics software was employed to investigate its performance when a cantilever beam is subjected to different amplitude and frequency. The FEM results demonstrate that the harvesting power in cases that use the EMSP can be amplified up to 5.5 times compared to a piezoelectric cantilever energy harvester without patch. This paper opens up a great potential of using EMSP for different types of energy harvesting systems in biomedical, acoustics, civil, electrical, aerospace, and mechanical engineering applications.

Study of an Impact Driven Frequency Up-Conversion Piezoelectric Harvester

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Abedini ◽  
Saeed Onsorynezhad ◽  
Fengxia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Output Power ◽  
Power Efficiency ◽  
Constitutive Law ◽  
Flexible Beam ◽  
Nonlinear Phenomena ◽  
Base Excitation ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
Piezoelectric Beam ◽  
The Impact

Frequency up-conversion is an effective way to increase the output power from a piezoelectric beam, which converts the ambient low-frequency vibration to the resonant vibration of the piezoelectric energy harvesters (PEH) to achieve high electric power output. Frequency up-conversion technologies are realized via impact or non-impact magnetic force to mediate the interaction between the driving beam and the generating beam. Most studies focus on the either linear model prediction or experimental verification of the linear analysis. Few, if any, study the effects of the impact induced nonlinear phenomena on power generation efficiency. In this work, we investigate how to use discontinuous theory to improve the power efficiency of the frequency up-conversion process caused by impacts. The energy harvesting performance of a piezoelectric beam in interaction with a softer beam in periodic motion is studied. The discontinuous dynamical system theory is applied to this problem to study the piezoelectric behavior under periodic motions and its bifurcations. The beams are modeled with two spring-mass-damper systems, and the analytical model of the piezoelectric beam is created based on the linear mechanical-electrical constitutive law of the piezoelectric material, and the linear elastic constitutive law of the substrate. Based on the theoretical model, the analytical solution of the output power is derived in terms of the vibration amplitude, frequency, and the electrical load. The soft beam is subjected to a sinusoidal base excitation, and the impacts of the more flexible beam excite the piezoelectric beam. The performance of the energy harvesting of period one and period two motions have been studied and bifurcation trees for impact velocities, times, displacements and harvested power versus the frequency of the base excitation are obtained.

scholarly journals Vision Analysis of the Influence of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting on Vibration Damping of a Cantilever Beam

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 7168
Author(s):  
Dariusz Grzybek ◽  
Andrzej Sioma
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Cantilever Beam ◽  
Load Resistance ◽  
Vibration Damping ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Passive Damping ◽  
Shunt Resistance ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
Harvesting Process ◽  
The Given

A cantilever beam, manufactured from a steel-carrying substrate and two patches of Macro Fiber Composite of P2 type, was a subject of laboratory research. MFC patches were glued on both sides of the carrying substrate and were parallelly connected. An experimental determination of an optimal resistance for both energy harvesting and vibration passive damping of the cantilever beam was the purpose of the conducted laboratory research. The research contained 10 experiments in which courses of the energy-harvesting process and resistive passive damping of vibration were estimated. Energy harvesting was estimated by measurements of the generated current for the given load-resistance values. Resistive passive damping of vibration was assessed by using a vision method that enabled the displacements’ measurements of 10 selected points in the beam structure for the given shunt-resistance values. Values of both load resistance and shunt resistance were chosen on the basis of analytically calculated optimal load resistance and optimal shunt resistance. On the basis of the conducted experiments, the resistance range for which both the energy-harvesting process and the vibration-damping process are most effective was determined.

Design of piezoelectric energy harvesting system using cantilever beam

2014 ◽  
Vol 135 (4) ◽  
pp. 2218-2219
Author(s):  
Jin-Su Kim ◽  
Un-Chang Jeong ◽  
Sun-Hoon Lee ◽  
Jung-Min Jeong ◽  
Jae-Eung Oh
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Cantilever Beam ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
Energy Harvesting System

scholarly journals A novel two-degrees-of-freedom piezoelectric energy harvester

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Wu ◽  
Lihua Tang ◽  
Yaowen Yang ◽  
Chee Kiong Soh
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Cantilever Beam ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Energy Harvester ◽  
Response Level ◽  
Resonant Frequencies ◽  
Promising Alternative ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
Cantilevered Beam ◽  
Compact Design

Energy harvesting from ambient vibrations using piezoelectric effect is a promising alternative solution for powering small electronics such as wireless sensors. A conventional piezoelectric energy harvester usually consists of a cantilevered beam with a proof mass at its free end. For such a device, the second resonance of the piezoelectric energy harvester is usually ignored because of its high frequency as well as low response level compared to the first resonance. Hence, only the first mode has been frequently exploited for energy harvesting in the reported literature. In this article, a novel compact piezoelectric energy harvester using two vibration modes has been developed. The harvester comprises one main cantilever beam and an inner secondary cantilever beam, each of which is bonded with piezoelectric transducers. By varying the proof masses, the first two resonant frequencies of the harvester can be tuned close enough to achieve useful wide bandwidth. Meanwhile, this compact design efficiently utilizes the cantilever beam by generating significant power output from both the main and secondary beams. An experiment and simulation were carried out to validate the design concept. The results show that the proposed novel piezoelectric energy harvester is more adaptive and functional in practical vibrational circumstances.

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