The recent advances for an archetypal smooth and discontinuous oscillator

Y Zhang, Q Cao - International journal of mechanical sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
The so called archetypal smooth and discontinuous (SD) oscillator with irrational
nonlinearity is a simple mass-spring system constrained to a straight line by a geometrical …

Vibration energy harvesting: A review

A Mohanty, S Parida, RK Behera… - Journal of Advanced …, 2019 - World Scientific
This study is based on energy harvesting from vibration and deals with the comparison of
different techniques. In the present scenario, energy harvesting has drawn the attention of …

Energy harvesting from human motion: exploiting swing and shock excitations

K Ylli, D Hoffmann, A Willmann, P Becker… - Smart Materials and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Modern compact and low power sensors and systems are leading towards increasingly
integrated wearable systems. One key bottleneck of this technology is the power supply. The …

A floating piezoelectric electromagnetic hybrid wave vibration energy harvester actuated by a rotating wobble ball

G Shi, W Zeng, Y Xia, J Xu, S Jia, Q Li, X Wang, H Xia… - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a floating piezoelectric electromagnetic hybrid wave vibration energy
harvester actuated by a rotating wobble ball. The kinematic equation of the rotating wobble …

Dynamics and performance evaluation of a novel tristable hybrid energy harvester for ultra-low level vibration resources

T Yang, Q Cao - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
To improve the efficiency of energy harvesting from external ultra-low level vibration
resources, this article presents a novel tristable hybrid vibration energy harvester using …

A nonresonant triboelectric-electromagnetic energy harvester via a vibro-impact mechanism for low-frequency multi-directional excitations

H Zhao, H Ouyang, H Zhang - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
A majority of current studies about non-resonant energy harvesters for low-frequency energy
are based on pure experiment without theoretical modeling. In this work, a novel hybrid …

Portable wind energy harvesters for low-power applications: A survey

S Nabavi, L Zhang - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
Energy harvesting has become an increasingly important topic thanks to the advantages in
renewability and environmental friendliness. In this paper, a comprehensive study on …

A nonlinear energy sink with an energy harvester: transient responses

D Kremer, K Liu - Journal of sound and vibration, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper investigates energy harvesting using nonlinear energy sink. First a novel
apparatus is described in detail outlining how the essential nonlinearity and energy …

On a spring-assisted multi-stable hybrid-integrated vibration energy harvester for ultra-low-frequency excitations

X Yang, SK Lai, C Wang, JM Wang, H Ding - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This work presents a spring-assisted multi-stable nonlinear vibration energy harvesting
technique by integrating two working mechanisms (ie, electromagnetic and triboelectric …

Improving energy harvesting from impulsive excitations by a nonlinear tunable bistable energy harvester

X Huang, B Yang - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel prototype of tunable bistable energy harvester (TBEH) coupled
to a grounded and weakly damped linear primary structure. Based on buckling beam theory …