Energy harvesting in the railway industry has great potential for many applications. Energy
harvesters can provide electrical power for track-side, on-board, and infrastructure …

In order to ensure safety and reliability of railway transportation the interest in monitoring
systems is constantly increasing. These devices include sensors and electronic …

The benefit of introducing nonlinear stiffness elements to improve the dynamic performance
of vibration energy harvesters, vibration isolators and vibration absorbers have attracted …

This paper proposes a paradigm shift in the perspective of designing nonlinear oscillators,
ie, the exploitation of nonlinearity to achieve a linear behaviour to good engineering …

In this paper, we review, compare, and analyze previous studies on vibration energy
harvesting and related technologies. First, the paper introduces the basic aspects of …

Owing to the electromechanical energy conversion capacity, electromagnetic shunt dampers
(EMSDs) are widely applied to vibration suppression or energy harvesting from vibrating …

As we have known that it is impossible to attenuate the vibration displacement of the floating-
slab depending on a strong stiffness and to improve the low-frequency vibration isolation …

The subject of the research contained in this paper is a new design solution for an energy
harvesting system resulting from the combination of a quasi-zero-stiffness energy harvester …

In this article, triboelectric effect has been used to harvest mechanical energy from human
motion and convert it into electrical energy. To do so, different ways of optimizing the energy …

This paper deals with a development and lab testing of energy harvesting technology for
autonomous sensing in railway applications. Moving trains are subjected to high levels of …