Investigation of Effect of Piezoelectric Placement in the Energy Harvesting Composite Beam on Voltage, Current and Output Power

Document Type : Dynamics, Vibrations, and Control

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran

2 Ph.D. student, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Vibration energy harvesting is one of the methods that is used as energy supply for electronic devices that have low power consumption (such as sensors). With the advent of piezoelectrics and due to the properties of piezoelectric materials, they were quickly introduced as one of the most common materials for energy harvesting. Currently, vibration energy harvesting with piezoelectric material can produce more than 300 microwatts per square centimeter of power. Piezopolymers are one of the types of piezoelectric materials. In this work, with the help of EAPap piezopolymer materials, which are a thin film of cellulose, energy-harvesting beams have been made. By changing the location of the piezoelectric along the length of the cantilever beam, the changes in voltage, current and output power have been investigated. It can be seen that by changing the position of the piezoelectric on the beam and getting closer to the end of the beam, the output power, current and voltage have also increased due to the increase in the amount of strain.

Graphical Abstract

Investigation of Effect of Piezoelectric Placement in the Energy Harvesting Composite Beam on Voltage, Current and Output Power

Keywords

Main Subjects


Smiley face

References

[1] Arms S, Townsend C, Churchill D, Galbreath J, Corneau B, Ketcham R, et al., editors. Energy harvesting, wireless, structural health monitoring and reporting system. Proceedings of the 2nd Asia Pacific Workshop on SHM; 2008.
[2] Erturk A, Inman DJ. Piezoelectric energy harvesting: John Wiley & Sons; 2011.
[3] Hamedi M, Hosseini R, Mechanical energy generators, Mechanical Engineering Promotional Scientific Journal. 2012.
[4] Adebzadeh H, Mohammadi MM, Ghazanfarian J. Energy harvesting from water waves with finned and finless piezoelectric beam: an experimental study. Amirkabir Mechanical Engineering Journal. 2023;55(10):1195-206.
[5] Mamandi A, Jafari Y. Investigating the vibration energy harvesting efficiency of the piezoelectric beam using the finite element method. Mechanical Engineering, University of Tabriz. 2021;51(1):209-18.
 [6] Farhani S, Shushtri A. Investigating leaf-stem-like structures that harvest energy from wind flow using piezoelectric materials. Sharif Mechanical Engineering Journal. 2021;37.3(2):81-95.
[7] Zhou X, Parida K, Chen J, Xiong J, Zhou Z, Jiang F, et al. 3D Printed Auxetic Structure-Assisted Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting and Sensing. Advanced Energy Materials. 2023;13(34):2301159.
[8] Chen W, Zheng Q, Lv YA, Chen Y, Fan Q, Zhou X, et al. Piezoelectric energy harvesting and dissipating behaviors of polymer-based piezoelectric composites for nanogenerators and dampers. Chemical Engineering Journal. 2023;465:142755.
[9] Hosseini R, Hamedi M, Im J, Kim J, Dayou J. Analytical and experimental investigation of partially covered piezoelectric cantilever energy harvester. International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing. 2017;18:415-24.
[10] Hosseini R, Hamedi M, Golparvar H, Zargar O. Analytical and experimental investigation into increasing operating bandwidth of piezoelectric energy harvesters. AUT Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 2019;3(1):113-22.
[11] Su W-J, Tseng C-H. Design and analysis of an extended simply supported beam piezoelectric energy harvester. Sensors. 2023;23(13):5895.
[12] González J, Ghaffarinejad A, Ivanov M, Ferreira P, Vilarinho PM, Borrás A, et al. Advanced Cellulose–Nanocarbon Composite Films for High-Performance Triboelectric and Piezoelectric Nanogenerators. Nanomaterials. 2023;13(7):1206.
[13] Trellu H, Le Scornec J, Leray N, Moreau C, Villares A, Cathala B, et al. Flexoelectric and piezoelectric effects in micro-and nanocellulose films. Carbohydrate Polymers. 2023;321:121305.
[14] Pradeesh E, Udhayakumar S, Vasundhara M, Kalavathi G. Experimental and numerical analysis on different beam geometries for vibration based piezoelectric energy harvester. Ferroelectrics. 2023;606(1):219-38.
[15] Arafa M, Akl W, Aladwani A, Aldraihem O, Baz A, editors. Experimental implementation of a cantilevered piezoelectric energy harvester with a dynamic magnifier. Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems 2011; 2011: SPIE.
[16] Hosseini R, Hamedi M. Improvements in energy harvesting capabilities by using different shapes of piezoelectric bimorphs. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 2015;25(12):125008.
[17] Hosseini R, Hamedi M. An investigation into resonant frequency of trapezoidal V-shaped cantilever piezoelectric energy harvester. Microsystem Technologies. 2016;22:1127-34.
[18] Hosseini R, Hamedi M. An investigation into resonant frequency of triangular V-shaped cantilever piezoelectric vibration energy harvester. 2016.
[19] Hosseini R, Hamedi M. Resonant frequency of bimorph triangular V-shaped piezoelectric cantilever energy harvester. Journal of Computational & Applied Research in Mechanical Engineering (JCARME). 2016;6(1):65-73.
[20] Ou Q, Chen X, Gutschmidt S, Wood A, Leigh N, editors. A two-mass cantilever beam model for vibration energy harvesting applications. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering; 2010: IEEE.
[21] Kim J. Improvement of piezoelectricity in piezoelectric paper made with cellulose. DTIC Document. 2009.
[22] Dayou J, Liew W, Chow M-S. Increasing the bandwidth of the width-split piezoelectric energy harvester. Microelectronics Journal. 2012;43(7):484-91.
[23] Meirovitch L. Analytical Methods in Vibrations. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc; 1967.
[24] Rao SS, Yap FF. Mechanical vibrations: Addison-Wesley New York; 1995.
Aerospace Mechanics
Volume 21, Issue 3 - Serial Number 81
Autumn
October 2025
Pages 1-9

Files

History

  • Receive Date: 20 April 2025
  • Revise Date: 03 July 2025
  • Accept Date: 10 September 2025
  • Publish Date: 29 September 2025

Share

How to cite

Statistics