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Energy harvesting from the secondary resonances of a nonlinear piezoelectric beam under hard harmonic excitation

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This paper investigates the dynamical response of a nonlinear piezoelectric energy harvester under a hard harmonic excitation and assesses its output power. The system is composed of a unimorph cantilever beam with a tip mass and exposed to an harmonic tip excitation with a hard forcing amplitude. First, the governing dimensionless nonlinear electromechanical ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are obtained. Next, the multiple scales method (MSM) is exploited to provide an approximate-analytical solution for the ODEs in hard and soft forcing scenarios. It is observed that, the hard force results in sub- and super-harmonic resonances. The MSM-based solutions are then validated by a numerical integration method and a good agreement is observed between the approximate-analytical and numerical results. Furthermore, utilizing the MSM-based solutions for the subharmonic, superharmonic, and soft primary resonances cases, the associated frequency and force response curves are constructed. It is revealed that the hard excitation leads to a remarkable voltage generation in the secondary resonances; this leads to a broadband energy harvesting. In addition, the time-domain electrical responses of the secondary resonances are also obtained and compared with each other. Finally, the three-dimensional graphs of the electrical power versus detuning parameter and time constant ratio in the cases of the secondary resonances are plotted. The results show that the optimum output power of the superharmonic resonance is considerably larger than the maximum power of the subharmonic resonance case.

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This study was funded by Tarbiat Modares University (IG-39703).

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-177, Tehran, Iran

    Masoud Rezaei & Siamak E. Khadem

  2. College of Engineering, Swansea University, Bay Campus, Fabian Way, Crymlyn Burrows, Swansea, SA1 8EN, UK

    M. I. Friswell

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Rezaei, M., Khadem, S.E. & Friswell, M.I. Energy harvesting from the secondary resonances of a nonlinear piezoelectric beam under hard harmonic excitation. Meccanica 55, 1463–1479 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-020-01187-1

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