Review on engineering structural designs for efficient piezoelectric energy harvesting to obtain high power output

N Wu, B Bao, Q Wang - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, with more electrical devices developed and applied in wide fields, efficient
electrical energy generation is always one of the front-end and practical topics in …

Energy harvesting from wind by a piezoelectric harvester

JX Tao, NV Viet, A Carpinteri, Q Wang - Engineering Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
A novel wind power harvester using piezoelectric effect is developed. This engineering
structure device employs a wind turbine that extracts kinetic energy from the wind and …

A theoretical model for a piezoelectric energy harvester with a tapered shape

XD Xie, A Carpinteri, Q Wang - Engineering Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
A piezoelectric energy harvester made of a tapered cantilever surface bonded with
piezoelectric patches is developed to harness energy from ambient vibrations. Compared …

Whole-process analysis and implementation of a self-powered wireless health monitoring system for railway bridges: Theory, simulation and experiment

W Sheng, H Xiang, L Gao, J Wang, J Liang… - Engineering Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, a self-powered wireless health monitoring system (SP-WHMS) combined with
the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is proposed and implemented for a long-term and long-distance …

Nonlinear finite element system simulation of piezoelectric vibration-based energy harvesters

A Hegendörfer, P Steinmann… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Piezoelectric vibration-based energy harvesters consist of an electromechanical structure
and an electric circuitry, influencing each other. We propose a novel approach that allows a …

Finite element modeling of electrically rectified piezoelectric energy harvesters

PH Wu, YC Shu - Smart Materials and Structures, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Finite element models are developed for designing electrically rectified piezoelectric energy
harvesters. They account for the consideration of common interface circuits such as the …

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

XD Xie, Q Wang - Engineering Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
A theoretical model for a piezoelectric harvester device is developed by an iteration method
to determine the maximum energy harvested from vibration of high-rise buildings. The …

Numerical assessment and parametric optimization of a piezoelectric wind energy harvester for IoT-based applications

MA Sheeraz, MS Malik, K Rehman, H Elahi, Z Butt… - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the 21st century, researchers have been showing keen interest in the areas of wireless
networking and internet of things (IoT) devices. Conventionally, batteries have been used to …

Optimization analysis of interface circuits in piezoelectric energy harvesting systems

S Pang, W Li, J Kan - Journal of Power Technologies, 2016 - papers.itc.pw.edu.pl
Piezoelectric energy harvesting systems have different interface circuits, including the
standard interface circuit, synchronized switch harvesting on inductor circuit, and …

Influence of design parameters on bending piezoelectric harvester effectiveness: Static approach

R Nowak, M Pietrzakowski, P Rumianek - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the presented paper the considered energy harvester is a cantilever beam consisting of a
non-piezoelectric substructure layer covered symmetrically on its both sides with two …