Abstract
The performance of bimorph cantilever energy harvester subjected to horizontal and vertical excitations is investigated. The energy harvester is simulated as an inextensible piezoelectric beam with the Euler–Bernoulli assumptions. A horizontal base excitation along the axis of the beam is converted into the parametric excitation. The governing equations include geometric, inertia and electromechanical coupling nonlinearities. Using the Galerkin method, the electromechanical coupling Mathieu–Duffing equation is developed. Analytical solutions of the frequency response curves are presented by using the method of multiple scales. Some analytical results are obtained, which reveal the influence of different parameters such as the damping, load resistance and excitation amplitude on the output power of the energy harvester. In the case of parametric excitation, the effect of mechanical damping and load resistance on the initiation excitation threshold is studied. In the case of combination of parametric and direct excitations, the dynamic characteristics and performance of the nonlinear piezoelectric energy harvesters are studied. Our studies revealed that the bending deformation generated by direct excitation pushes the system out of axial deformation and overcomes the limitation of initial threshold of parametric excitation system. The combination of parametric and direct excitations, which compensates and complements each other, can be served as a better solution which enhances performance of energy harvesters.
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Abbreviations
- A :
-
Complex-valued function
- a :
-
Response amplitude
- b :
-
Width of beam
- c :
-
Damping coefficient
- \(\bar{{c}}\) :
-
Non-dimensional damping coefficient
- \(C_\mathrm{p} \) :
-
Capacitance of the piezoelectric layers
- \(d_{31} \) :
-
Piezoelectric strain coefficient
- \(h_\mathrm{b} \) :
-
Thickness of the beam
- J :
-
Jacobian matrix
- L :
-
Length of the piezo-beam
- \(m_t \) :
-
Mass per unit length of the beam
- P :
-
Output power
- \(R_\mathrm{L} \) :
-
Electrical load resistance
- \(t(\tau )\) :
-
Time (\(\tau =\omega _0 t)\)
- \(t_\mathrm{s} \) :
-
Thickness of the substrate layer
- \(t_\mathrm{p} \) :
-
Thickness of each piezoelectric layer
- u :
-
Horizontal direction displacement of piezo-beam relative to \({o}'{x}'{y}'\)
- v :
-
Vertical direction displacement of piezo-beam relative to \({o}'{x}'{y}'\)
- \(\bar{{v}}\) :
-
Dimensionless vertical displacement
- V :
-
Output voltage
- \(\bar{{V}}\) :
-
Dimensionless output voltage
- \(w_x \) :
-
The horizontal direction displacement of the base relative to oxy
- \(w_y \) :
-
The vertical direction displacement of the base relative to oxy
- \(\bar{{w}}\) :
-
Dimensionless vertical displacement
- \(Y_\mathrm{p} \) :
-
Young’s modulus of the piezoelectric layer
- \(Y_\mathrm{s} \) :
-
Young’s modulus of the substrate layer
- oxy :
-
Inertial coordinates
- \({o}'{x}'{y}'\) :
-
Base-fixed coordinates
- \(s,\xi \) :
-
Coordinate along neutral axis
- cc:
-
The complex conjugate of the preceding term
- \(\rho _\mathrm{p} \) :
-
Density of the piezoelectric layer
- \(\rho _\mathrm{s} \) :
-
Density of the substrate layer
- \(\varepsilon _{33}^T \) :
-
Permittivity at constant stress
- \(\varepsilon _{33}^S \) :
-
Permittivity at constant strain
- YI :
-
Bending stiffness of the piezo-beam
- \(\alpha \) :
-
Electromechanical coupling coefficient
- \(\Omega _x \) :
-
Parametric excited frequency
- \(\Omega _y \) :
-
Direct excited frequency
- \(\varphi _n (\bar{{s}})\) :
-
Eigenfunction of clamped-free beam
- \(\bar{{\beta }}_n \) :
-
Frequency parameter of cantilever beam
- \(\omega _n \) :
-
Natural frequency of the nth mode
- \(\delta _x \) :
-
Non-dimensional parametric excited amplitude
- \(\delta _y \) :
-
Non-dimensional direct excited amplitude
- \(\psi \) :
-
Horizontal excited phase angle
- \(\varepsilon \) :
-
Small perturbation parameter
- \(\sigma \) :
-
Detuning parameter
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of PR China (No. 11172087).
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Appendix A
The coefficients defined in Eqs. (9) and (10) are given as:
Appendix B
The coefficients defined in Eqs. (26)–(31) are as following:
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Xia, G., Fang, F., Zhang, M. et al. Performance analysis of parametrically and directly excited nonlinear piezoelectric energy harvester. Arch Appl Mech 89, 2147–2166 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00419-019-01568-3
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