Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting (ePub)

The transformation of vibrations into electric energy through the
use of piezoelectric devices is an exciting and rapidly developing
area of research with a widening range of applications constantly
materialising. With Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting,
world-leading researchers provide a timely and comprehensive
coverage of the electromechanical modelling and applications of
piezoelectric energy harvesters. They present principal modelling
approaches, synthesizing fundamental material related to
mechanical, aerospace, civil, electrical and materials engineering
disciplines for vibration-based energy harvesting using
piezoelectric transduction.



Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting provides the first
comprehensive treatment of distributed-parameter electromechanical
modelling for piezoelectric energy harvesting with extensive case
studies including experimental validations, and is the first book
to address modelling of various forms of excitation in
piezoelectric energy harvesting, ranging from airflow excitation to
moving loads, thus ensuring its relevance to engineers in fields as
disparate as aerospace engineering and civil engineering.

Coverage includes:

* Analytical and approximate analytical distributed-parameter
electromechanical models with illustrative theoretical case studies
as well as extensive experimental validations

* Several problems of piezoelectric energy harvesting ranging
from simple harmonic excitation to random vibrations

* Details of introducing and modelling piezoelectric coupling for
various problems

* Modelling and exploiting nonlinear dynamics for performance
enhancement, supported with experimental verifications

* Applications ranging from moving load excitation of slender
bridges to airflow excitation of aeroelastic sections

* A review of standard nonlinear energy harvesting circuits with
modelling aspects.