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Theoretical Assessment on Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting in Smart Self-powered Asphalt Pavements

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Abstract

Background

The lighting system along the highway in urban district consume vast amount of electric power, thus leading to a great number of economic cost.

Purpose and Methods

We propose to integrate within the road pavement a layer of piezoelectric transducer that is used to transfer mechanical energy stored in the road pavement due to traffic loading to electric power. For this energy harvesting system, we develop a composite beam model in plane strain state with two asphalt mixture layers and a piezoelectric layer in between. The output electric current, voltage, and power due to various exciting loading frequency are derived analytically.

Results and Conclusion

The optimal thickness and location of the piezoelectric layer in the pavement are presented. A simple scaling law for the output voltage or power is derived by combining all material and geometric parameters into three independent non-dimensional parameters. The solution here may offer a simple tool for the design of smart asphalt pavement from the point of optimal output electric power.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the funding supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11322216, 11321202, and 11472244. They also acknowledge the supports from Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. LR13A020001 and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No. 2017M621934.

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  1. College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, People’s Republic of China

    Yisheng Chen, He Zhang, Liwei Quan, Zhicheng Zhang & Chaofeng Lü

  2. Key Laboratory of Soft Machines and Smart Devices of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, People’s Republic of China

    Chaofeng Lü

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Chen, Y., Zhang, H., Quan, L. et al. Theoretical Assessment on Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting in Smart Self-powered Asphalt Pavements. J. Vib. Eng. Technol. 6, 1–10 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42417-018-0003-x

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