Characterization of different beam shapes for piezoelectric energy harvesting Export

@article{goldschmidtboeing 2008, abstract = {This paper deals with the analysis of different beam shapes for piezoelectric energy harvesters. The theory is based on the well-established Rayleigh-Ritz method for piezoelectric compound structures. It is validated by experiments with triangular-shaped and rectangular-shaped beams. It turns out that triangular-shaped beams are more effective than rectangular-shaped ones in terms of curvature homogeneity independent of the proof mass. This effect is opposed by the adverse mass distribution and the increased stiffness of triangular-shaped beams. Therefore, the overall efficiency is only weakly influenced by the beam shape. Nevertheless triangular-shaped beams drastically outperform rectangular ones in terms of tolerable excitation amplitude and maximum output power.}, author = {Goldschmidtboeing, Frank and Woias, Peter}, citeulike-article-id = {3378235}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0960-1317/18/10/104013}, doi = {10.1088/0960-1317/18/10/104013}, journal = {Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering}, keywords = {cantilever, energy-harvesting, piezoelectric}, number = {10}, pages = {104013+}, posted-at = {2008-10-06 01:11:57}, priority = {2}, title = {Characterization of different beam shapes for piezoelectric energy harvesting}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0960-1317/18/10/104013}, volume = {18}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - goldschmidtboeing 2008 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3378235 N2 - This paper deals with the analysis of different beam shapes for piezoelectric energy harvesters. The theory is based on the well-established Rayleigh-Ritz method for piezoelectric compound structures. It is validated by experiments with triangular-shaped and rectangular-shaped beams. It turns out that triangular-shaped beams are more effective than rectangular-shaped ones in terms of curvature homogeneity independent of the proof mass. This effect is opposed by the adverse mass distribution and the increased stiffness of triangular-shaped beams. Therefore, the overall efficiency is only weakly influenced by the beam shape. Nevertheless triangular-shaped beams drastically outperform rectangular ones in terms of tolerable excitation amplitude and maximum output power. IS - 10 JF - Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering TI - Characterization of different beam shapes for piezoelectric energy harvesting VL - 18 SP - 104013 KW - cantilever KW - energy-harvesting KW - piezoelectric AU - Goldschmidtboeing, Frank AU - Woias, Peter PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0960-1317/18/10/104013 ER -