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Design of triple-beam internal-impact piezoelectric harvester optimized for energy and bandwidth

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Innovative design and maintenance approaches, such as using digital twins, require new sensors to inspect physical machines and send data through digital threads. In many situations, these sensors do not have access to a power source such as batteries or an electric power grid. Thus, capturing energy from vibration with energy harvesting devices is a way to feed these remote sensors. However, the machines vibrate over a large frequency bandwidth, which could significantly lessen the harvester energy recovery potential, once its efficiency is directly dependent on fitting its structure's natural frequency with the vibration source frequency. Aiming to improve energy recovery capacity, this article presents a new configuration for piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters with low-frequency band extension through the nonlinearity of internal impacts. The proposed design consists of triple-beam harvesters fixed to the same exciter base with masses aligned at their ends. The mathematical model of its electromechanical behavior is presented, as well as the formulation and optimization criteria for maximizing the power and the band of the system. By optimizing the proposed design, the operating range of a traditional system was extended by 158% without a significant power reduction. It is also noteworthy to obtain configurations with peak power output above 60 mW, for low frequencies. From these results, the proposed configuration shows substantial improvement over current alternatives to harvest energy in an ultralow-frequency environment.

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This work was funded in part by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), research grant 315304/2018-9. The authors thank the University of Campinas (Brazil) for sponsoring the research.

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    Matheus Valente Lopes, Allan Patrick Cordeiro Dias, Jony Javorski Eckert & Auteliano Antunes Santos

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Lopes, M.V., Dias, A.P.C., Eckert, J.J. et al. Design of triple-beam internal-impact piezoelectric harvester optimized for energy and bandwidth. J Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Eng. 44, 242 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-022-03553-4

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