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Rotational Vibration Energy Harvesting Enhancement with the Combinations of Centrifugal Effect, Gravity Effect and Bi-stable Restoring Effect

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Introduction

The centrifugal effect, gravity effect and bi-stable restoring effect and their combinations have great influences on the potential wells and dynamic behaviors of rotational vibration energy harvester (RVEH). However, the mechanisms of their combinations on improving the energy harvesting performance of the RVEH have not yet been well explored. This study aims to enforce the energy harvesting performance of RVEH by considering the combinations of the centrifugal effect, gravity effect and bi-stable restoring effect.

Materials and Methods

A rotational bi-stable piezoelectric-magnetic-elastic energy harvester (R-BPEH) is presented, its theoretical model considering the centrifugal effect, gravity effect and bi-stable restoring effect was established to describe the dynamic response behaviors of the R-BPEH. The centrifugal effect caused by the centrifugal force, gravity effect induced by the gravity of tip magnet, bi-stable restoring effect induced by the nonlinear magnetic force and their combinations on the potential energy wells, dynamic performance and power generation are theoretically explored under different system parameters, such as magnetic distance, rotating radius and rotational speed, etc.

Results

The simulation results show that the centrifugal hardening stiffness induced by the centrifugal force of the R-BPEH can increase the oscillating frequency and harvesting voltage in high rotational speed range, but narrows the working bandwidth of inter-well motion; The gravity component in transverse direction generates additional periodical excitation force on the R-BPEH to produce high energy generations, the gravity component in axial direction softens the centrifugal hardening effect to enhance the energy generation in low rotational speed range. In addition, their combination leads to the appearances of asymmetric potential wells which further enhance the dynamic and electrical performances of the R-BPEH. Finally, the theoretical results are validated by experiments, which indicate that the maximum harvested voltage and power generation of the R-BPEH achieves 2.3 V and 4.5 μW when the rotational speed ranges from 150 rpm to 540 rpm.

Conclusion

This study provides an effective method to improve the energy harvesting performance of R-BPEH, especially in low rotational speed range.

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Acknowledgement

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 51777192), the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China (no. LY24E070002), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Provincial Universities of Zhejiang (no. Y202250102).

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National Natural Science Foundation of China,51777192,Guangqing Wang, Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, LY24E070002, Guangqing Wang

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    Guangqing Wang, Yuyang Zhou, Lugang Hou, Guangbo Li & Yifan Jiang

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Wang, G., Zhou, Y., Hou, L. et al. Rotational Vibration Energy Harvesting Enhancement with the Combinations of Centrifugal Effect, Gravity Effect and Bi-stable Restoring Effect. J. Vib. Eng. Technol. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42417-024-01321-3

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