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Mechanical Design of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters

Generating Electricity from Human Walking

  • 1st Edition - October 22, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Qingsong Xu, Lap Mou Tam
  • Language: English

Mechanical Design of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters: Generating Electricity from Human Walking provides the state-of-the-art, recent mechanical designs of piezoelectric energy ha… Read more

Description

Mechanical Design of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters: Generating Electricity from Human Walking provides the state-of-the-art, recent mechanical designs of piezoelectric energy harvesters based on piezoelectric stacks. The book discusses innovative mechanism designs for energy harvesting from multidimensional force excitation, such as human walking, which offers higher energy density. Coverage includes analytical modeling, optimal design, simulation study, prototype fabrication, and experimental investigation. Detailed examples of their analyses and implementations are provided. The book's authors provide a unique perspective on this field, primarily focusing on novel designs for PZT Energy harvesting in biomedical engineering as well as in integrated multi-stage force amplification frame.

This book presents force-amplification compliant mechanism design and force direction-transmission mechanism design. It explores new mechanism design approaches using piezoelectric materials and permanent magnets. Readers can expect to learn how to design new mechanisms to realize multidimensional energy harvesting systems.

Key features

  • Provides new mechanical designs of piezoelectric energy harvesters for multidimensional force excitation
  • Contains both theoretical and experimental results
  • Fully supported with real-life examples on design, modeling and implementation of piezoelectric energy harvesting devices

Readership

Researchers, post docs, PhD and masters students, R&D industry professionals in Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Energy Harvesting Materials and Circuits

3. Survey on Mechanical Designs of Piezoelectric Energy Harvester

4. Review of Energy Harvesting from Human Walking

5. Design of a New Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Based on Compound Two-Stage Force Amplification Frame

6. Design of a New Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Handrail with Vibration and Force Excitations

7. Design of a Novel Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Based on Integrated Multi-Stage Force Amplification Frame

8. Design and Testing of a Novel Bidirectional Energy Harvester with Single Piezoelectric Stack

9. Design and Testing of a Novel 2-D Energy Harvester with Single Piezoelectric Stack

10. Design of a Novel 2-D Piezoelectric Energy Harvester with Permanent Magnets and Multi-Stage Force Amplifier

11. Design and Testing of a New Dual-Axial Underfloor Piezoelectric Energy Harvester

12. Design, Fabrication and Testing of a Novel 3-D Energy Harvester

13. Conclusions

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 22, 2021
  • Language: English

About the authors

QX

Qingsong Xu

Dr. Qingsong Xu is a Professor in the Department of Electromechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, and has served as the Director of the Smart and Micro/Nano Systems Laboratory since 2010. His research focuses on intelligent micro/nanosystems, precision robotics, and biomedical applications. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). Previously, he was a Technical Editor for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH) and an Associate Editor for both IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Prof. Xu has received more than ten best paper awards from international conferences and multiple Macao Science and Technology Awards from Macao SAR, China. Since 2019, he has been recognized among the top 2% of the world's scientists by Stanford University. He is also a Fellow of ASME.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Avenida da Universidade, China

LT

Lap Mou Tam

Prof. Lap Mou TAM has been working in the area of heat transfer, energy systems, and chaos for 30 years. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences in related domains.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Electromechanical Engneering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Avenida da Universidade, China

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