Electromechanical modeling and power performance analysis of a piezoelectric energy harvester having an attached mass and a segmented piezoelectric layer
- Authors
- Jeong, Sinwoo; Cho, Jae Yong; Sung, Tae Hyun; Yoo, Hong Hee
- Issue Date
- Feb-2017
- Publisher
- IOP PUBLISHING LTD
- Keywords
- piezoelectric energy harvester; electromechanical modeling; segmented piezoelectric layer; reduced-order analysis model; power performance
- Citation
- SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES, v.26, no.3
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES
- Volume
- 26
- Number
- 3
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/21205
- DOI
- 10.1088/1361-665X/aa550b
- ISSN
- 0964-1726
- Abstract
- Conventional vibration-based piezoelectric energy harvesters (PEHs) have advantages including the ubiquity of their energy source and their ease of manufacturing. However, they have a critical disadvantage as well: they can produce a reasonable amount of power only if the excitation frequency is concentrated near a natural frequency of the PEH. Because the excitation frequency is often spread and/ or variable, it is very difficult to successfully design a conventional PEH. In this paper, we propose a new cantilevered PEH whose design includes an attached mass and a segmented piezoelectric layer. By choosing a proper size and location for the attached mass, the gap between the first and second natural frequencies of the PEH can be decreased in order to broaden the effective excitation frequency range and thus to allow reasonable power generation. Especially, the output power performance improves significantly around the second natural frequency of the PEH since the voltage cancellation effect can be made very weak by segmenting the piezoelectric layer at an appropriate location. To investigate the power performance of the new PEH, herein a reduced-order electromechanical analysis model is proposed and the accuracy of this model is validated experimentally. The effects of variable load resistance and piezoelectric layer segmentation location upon the power performance of the new PEH are investigated by means of the reduced-order analysis model.
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