Nonlinear vibration energy harvesting and vibration suppression technologies: Designs, analysis, and applications

T Yang, S Zhou, S Fang, W Qin, DJ Inman - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Limited by the structure, the high-efficiency vibration energy harvesting and vibration
suppression have always been a theoretical bottleneck and technical challenge in this field …

Piezoelectric energy harvesting design principles for materials and structures: material figure‐of‐merit and self‐resonance tuning

HC Song, SW Kim, HS Kim, DG Lee… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric energy harvesters (PEHs) aim to generate sufficient power to operate targeting
device from the limited ambient energy. PEH includes mechanical‐to‐mechanical …

Bio-inspired bi-stable piezoelectric harvester for broadband vibration energy harvesting

F Qian, MR Hajj, L Zuo - Energy Conversion and Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Inspired by the rapid shape transition of the Venus flytrap, a novel low-cost, bi-stable
piezoelectric energy harvester is proposed, analyzed, and experimentally tested for the …

A novel nonlinear mechanical oscillator and its application in vibration isolation and energy harvesting

T Yang, Q Cao, Z Hao - Mechanical systems and signal processing, 2021 - Elsevier
The nonlinear design of a new vibration structure is an essential part of the development of
vibration isolation and energy harvesting technologies, and is one of the most effective …

A device capable of customizing nonlinear forces for vibration energy harvesting, vibration isolation, and nonlinear energy sink

D Zou, G Liu, Z Rao, T Tan, W Zhang… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nonlinear forces obtained via springs, magnets, buckling beams, etc., have been widely
introduced into vibration energy harvesting, vibration isolation and nonlinear energy sink to …

Multi-solution phenomena and nonlinear characteristics of tristable galloping energy harvesters with magnetic coupling nonlinearity

Z Li, S Wang, S Zhou - … in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 2023 - Elsevier
Different from linear energy harvesters, nonlinear energy harvesters have multi-solution
phenomena and nonlinear characteristics, some of which are beneficial for high …

Micro-amplitude vibration suppression of a bistable nonlinear energy sink constructed by a buckling beam

Y Zeng, H Ding, RH Du, LQ Chen - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
Effective reduction of micro-amplitude vibration has always been a serious challenge. The
nonlinear energy sink (NES) has been proven to be able to reduce vibration at a wide …

Stochastic and deterministic responses of an asymmetric quad-stable energy harvester

D Huang, J Han, S Zhou, Q Han, G Yang… - … Systems and Signal …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, stochastic and deterministic dynamical properties of an asymmetric quad-
stable energy harvester are explored for improving the energy harvesting performance …

Wideband energy harvesting using nonlinear energy sink with bio-inspired hexagonal skeleton structure

T Yang, Y Zhang, S Zhou, H Fan, X Zhang - Communications in Nonlinear …, 2022 - Elsevier
Inspired by human fitness push-ups, a bio-inspired hexagonal skeleton structure is
proposed to design wideband energy harvesters using nonlinear energy sink. The …

Simultaneous energy harvesting and vibration isolation via quasi-zero-stiffness support and radially distributed piezoelectric cantilever beams

C Liu, R Zhao, K Yu, HP Lee, B Liao - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2021 - Elsevier
Most of the existing energy harvesters are based on vibration amplification, which inevitably
causes large disturbing force transmitted to the base. In this paper, a novel energy …