
Mechanical Design of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters
Generating Electricity from Human Walking
- 1st Edition - October 22, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Qingsong Xu, Lap Mou Tam
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 3 6 4 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 6 5 3 - 6
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Request a sales quoteMechanical 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.
- 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
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Why energy harvesting is used in practice
- 1.2. Piezoelectric energy harvester
- 1.3. Energy harvesting from human walking
- 1.4. Book outline
- Chapter 2. Review of energy harvesting devices from human walking
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Alternative energy sources of batteries
- 2.3. Direct wearable energy harvester
- 2.4. Indirect wearable energy harvester
- 2.5. Indirect unwearable energy harvester
- 2.6. Potential applicable energy harvesting techniques
- 2.7. Further discussion
- 2.8. Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Survey of mechanical designs of piezoelectric energy harvester
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Piezoelectric materials
- 3.3. Mechanism designs
- 3.4. Further discussion
- 3.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Design of a piezoelectric energy harvester based on two-stage force amplification frame
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Mechanical design
- 4.3. Analytical modeling
- 4.4. Dimension optimization and finite element analysis simulation study
- 4.5. Experimental results
- 4.6. Conclusions
- Chapter 5. Design of a piezoelectric energy harvesting handrail with dual excitation modes
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Mechanism design
- 5.3. Modeling of piezoelectric stack
- 5.4. Prototype fabrication and experimental testing results
- 5.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Design of a piezoelectric energy harvester based on multistage force amplification frame
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Mechanical design
- 6.3. Analytical modeling
- 6.4. Parameter optimization and finite element analysis simulation study
- 6.5. Experimental results and discussion
- 6.6. Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Design of a bidirectional energy harvester with a single piezoelectric stack
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Mechanism design
- 7.3. Parameter optimization
- 7.4. Prototype fabrication and experimental testing
- 7.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Design of a two-dimensional energy harvester with a single piezoelectric stack
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Mechanism design
- 8.3. Parameter optimization
- 8.4. Prototype fabrication and experimental results
- 8.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Design of a two-dimensional piezoelectric energy harvester with magnets and multistage force amplifier
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Mechanical design
- 9.3. Analytical modeling
- 9.4. Parameter optimization and finite element analysis simulation study
- 9.5. Prototype fabrication and experimental study
- 9.6. Conclusion
- Chapter 10. Design of a dual-axial underfloor piezoelectric energy harvester
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Mechanism design
- 10.3. Parameter optimization
- 10.4. Prototype fabrication and experimental results
- 10.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 11. Design of a three-dimensional piezoelectric energy harvester
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Mechanism design
- 11.3. Parameter optimization
- 11.4. Prototype fabrication and experimental results
- 11.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 12. Design of a bistable piezoelectric energy harvester
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Analytical modeling
- 12.3. Parametric study and simulation verification
- 12.4. Prototype fabrication and experimental results
- 12.5. Conclusion
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 22, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 288
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128233641
- eBook ISBN: 9780128236536
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