scholarly journals Vibration Bandgaps of Piezoelectric Metamaterial Plate with Local Resonators for Vibration Energy Harvesting

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongsheng Chen ◽  
Jing He ◽  
Gang Wang

Embedded wireless sensing networks (WSNs) provide effective solutions for structural health monitoring (SHM), where how to provide long-term electric power is a bottle-neck problem. Piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting (PVEH) has been widely studied to realize self-powered WSNs due to piezoelectric effect. Structural vibrations are usually variable and exist in the form of elastic waves, so cantilever-like harvesters are not appropriate. In this paper, one kind of two-dimensional (2D) piezoelectric metamaterial plates with local resonators (PMP-LR) is investigated for structural vibration energy harvesting. In order to achieve low-frequency and broadband PVEH in SHM, it is highly necessary to study dynamic characteristics of PMP-LR, particularly bandgaps. Firstly, an analytical model is developed based on the Kirchhoff plate theory, and modal analysis is done by using the Rayleigh–Ritz method. Then, effects of geometric and material parameters on vibration bandgaps are analyzed by finite element-based simulations. In the end, experiments are carried out to validate the simulated results. The results demonstrate that the location of bandgaps can be easily adjusted by the design of local resonators. Therefore, the proposed method will provide an effective tool for optimizing local resonators in PMP-LR.

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 015510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Yuan ◽  
Hulin Zhang ◽  
Jie Wang ◽  
Yuhang Xie ◽  
Saeed Ahmed Khan ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 3868
Author(s):  
Qiong Wu ◽  
Hairui Zhang ◽  
Jie Lian ◽  
Wei Zhao ◽  
Shijie Zhou ◽  
...  

The energy harvested from the renewable energy has been attracting a great potential as a source of electricity for many years; however, several challenges still exist limiting output performance, such as the package and low frequency of the wave. Here, this paper proposed a bistable vibration system for harvesting low-frequency renewable energy, the bistable vibration model consisting of an inverted cantilever beam with a mass block at the tip in a random wave environment and also develop a vibration energy harvesting system with a piezoelectric element attached to the surface of a cantilever beam. The experiment was carried out by simulating the random wave environment using the experimental equipment. The experiment result showed a mass block’s response vibration was indeed changed from a single stable vibration to a bistable oscillation when a random wave signal and a periodic signal were co-excited. It was shown that stochastic resonance phenomena can be activated reliably using the proposed bistable motion system, and, correspondingly, large-scale bistable responses can be generated to realize effective amplitude enlargement after input signals are received. Furthermore, as an important design factor, the influence of periodic excitation signals on the large-scale bistable motion activity was carefully discussed, and a solid foundation was laid for further practical energy harvesting applications.


Energy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 180 ◽  
pp. 737-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Li ◽  
Shengxi Zhou ◽  
Zhichun Yang ◽  
Tong Guo ◽  
Xutao Mei

2018 ◽  
Vol 231 ◽  
pp. 600-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yipeng Wu ◽  
Jinhao Qiu ◽  
Shengpeng Zhou ◽  
Hongli Ji ◽  
Yang Chen ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 732-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Hua-Bin ◽  
Liu Jing-Quan ◽  
Xu Zheng-Yi ◽  
Dong Lu ◽  
Chen Di ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaxia Deng ◽  
Zizheng Zhao ◽  
Chong Jiao ◽  
Jingchang Ye ◽  
Shiyu Zhao ◽  
...  

There are a lot of vibrational energies, which are low frequency, multidirectional, and broadband, in the nature. This creates difficulties for devices that aim at harvesting vibration energy. Here, we present a liquid-metal-based freestanding triboelectric generator (LM-FTG) for vibration energy harvesting. In this device, the fluidity of liquid is used to increase sensitivity to vibration for better low-frequency response and multidirectional vibration energy harvesting capability. The freestanding power generation mode is able to increase power generation stability. Experiments show that the bandwidth of LM-FTG can almost cover the entire sweep frequency range, and a 10 μF capacitor can be charged to 6.46 V at 7.5 Hz in 60 s by LM-FTG. In particular, 100 LEDs are illuminated in the low-frequency environmental experiment successfully. The proposed LM-FTG can work in low frequency with large working bandwidth, which provides an effective method for energy harvesting of low-frequency and multidirectional vibrations.


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