Non-intrusive movable energy harvesting devices: Materials, designs, and their prospective uses on transportation infrastructures

L Guo, H Wang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
As low-carbon and smart cities are recently developing fast, non-intrusive and movable
energy harvesters can be a trend of energy harvester development to face the severe …

Enhanced energy transfer and conversion for high performance phononic crystal-assisted elastic wave energy harvesting

TG Lee, SH Jo, HM Seung, SW Kim, EJ Kim, BD Youn… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
A critical challenge in energy harvesting has been insufficient sustainable power generation
for practical applications, despite the benefits of self-powering and green-enabling …

Designing a phononic crystal with a large defect to enhance elastic wave energy localization and harvesting

J Zhong, J Xiang - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Phononic crystals (PnCs) have been shown to manipulate and amplify elastic waves. Using
this characteristic of PnCs to assist energy harvesting has a remarkable effect. Generally, a …

Application of artificial intelligence and evolutionary algorithms in simulation-based optimal design of a piezoelectric energy harvester

S Bagheri, N Wu, S Filizadeh - Smart Materials and Structures, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper tackles the problem of finding the optimal design parameters for a piezoelectric
energy harvester. A new simulation-based optimization procedure is proposed with the goal …

Acoustic emission from vibration of cracked sheet-metal samples

R Joseph, MY Bhuiyan, V Giurgiutiu - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2019 - Elsevier
Fatigue cracking in sheet metal structures is a common problem during practical
applications. It can cause a disastrous failure in the running condition of the structure if it is …

Multifunction acoustic modulation by a multi-mode acoustic metamaterial architecture

H Ahmed, R Ahmed, MM Indaleeb… - Journal of Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Exotic acoustical features, like acoustic transparency, ultrasonic beam focusing, acoustic
band gap and super lensing capability using a single metamaterial architecture is …

A Metamaterial‐Inspired Structure for Simultaneous Vibration Attenuation and Energy Harvesting

W Anigbogu, H Bardaweel - Shock and Vibration, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, a magnetomechanical metamaterial structure capable of simultaneous
vibration attenuation and energy harvesting is presented. The structure consists of …

Design and testing of a new dual-axial underfloor piezoelectric energy harvester

Z Wu, Q Xu - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents the design, fabrication, and testing of a dual-axial underfloor
piezoelectric energy harvester based on piezoelectric stack. Usually, an underfloor energy …

Quantification of material degradation and its behavior of elastodynamic Green's function for computational wave field modeling in composites

V Tavaf, M Saadatzi, S Shrestha, S Banerjee - Materials Today …, 2018 - Elsevier
The objective of this fundamental study is to provide a comprehensive insight on how the
constitutive coefficients are degraded due to various common defects. These defects are …

EMT conversion of composite broadband absorbent metamaterials for stealth application over X-bands

J Duan, R Liu, H Xu, R Zhang, B Zhang, BS Kim - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A validating approach for electromagnetic thermal (EMT) conversion of a composite
broadband absorbent metamaterials (AMs) is proposed in this paper. The integrated …