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Energy Harvesting Investigation from Unimorph Trapezoidal Beam

Vibrations using Distributed Parameters Method
Mohammadreza Asgharzadeh1,Kamal Jahani2*,Arman Kianpoor3,MortezaHomayoun Sadeghi4
1- Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
2- Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
3-Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
4-Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
*P.O.B. 51665-315Tabriz, Iran, ka_jahani@tabrizu.ac.ir

ARTICLE INFORMATION

ABSTRACT

Original Research Paper

Received 22 July 2014
Accepted 26 August 2014
Available Online 20 October 2014

In recent years, the need for low power electronic circuits like sensors and wireless systems has
been considered by many researchers. Excessive weight, limited lifetime of the batteries and also
the problem of replacing them, are the main reasons for harvesting energy from ambient
vibrations. Among the various sources of environmental energy, mechanical vibrations have
gained in popularity due to their availability. Between the different methods of ambient vibration
energy harvesting, piezoelectric method, is one of the good ways to harvest energy due to the
favorable effects of electromechanical coupling. The most common means of harvesting energy
from vibrations is a cantilevered beam with one or more piezoelectric layers. In the present
paper, electrical energy harvesting from Euler-Bernoulli trapezoidal cantilevered unimorph beam
with base excitation using distributed parameter method has been considered. First, equations of
motion are analytically obtained and then using Assumed modes method(for rectangular beam),
systems natural frequencies are calculated and output voltage, current and power diagrams are
presented. For verifying results, presented voltage, current and power output diagrams for
trapezoidal configuration close to rectangular configuration, the results of which are published in
references, will be compared. Then, functional parameters for trapezoidal energy harvester with
resistance value changes for energy consumer have been analyzed.

Keywords:
Energy harvesting
Piezoelectric
Vibrations
Trapezoidal beam
Distributed Parameters Method

Please cite this article using:

M. R. Asgharzadeh, K. Jahani, A. Kianpoor, M. H. Sadeghi, Energy Harvesting Investigation from Unimorph Trapezoidal Beam Vibrations using Distributed Parameters Method,
Modares Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 15, pp. 96-102, 2015 (In Persian)

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