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Optimum load for energy harvesting with non-linear oscillators

Optimum load for energy harvesting with non-linear oscillators
Optimum load for energy harvesting with non-linear oscillators
A viable way to increase the band-width of a vibration-based energy harvester is exploiting the frequency response of non-linear oscillators. In the literature there are several works on resonating energy harvesters featuring non-linear oscillators. In the majority of these works, the harvester powers purely resistive loads. Given the complex behaviour of non-linear energy harvesters, it is difficult to identify the optimum load for these kind of devices. The aim of this work is to find the optimal load for a non-linear energy harvester in the case of purely resistive loads. The work, following the analysis of a non-linear energy harvesting with hardening compliance, introduces a methodology based on numerical continuation which can be used to find the optimum load once the characteristics of device as well as the excitation is known.
2191-5644
555-560
Springer New York, NY
Cammarano, A.
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Gonzalez-Buelga, A.
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Neild, S.A.
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Wagg, D.J.
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Burrow, S.G.
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Inman, D.J.
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Allemang, Randall
De Clerck, James
Niezrecki, Christopher
Wicks, Alfred
Cammarano, A.
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Gonzalez-Buelga, A.
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Neild, S.A.
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Wagg, D.J.
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Burrow, S.G.
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Allemang, Randall
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Wicks, Alfred

Cammarano, A., Gonzalez-Buelga, A., Neild, S.A., Wagg, D.J., Burrow, S.G. and Inman, D.J. (2013) Optimum load for energy harvesting with non-linear oscillators. Allemang, Randall, De Clerck, James, Niezrecki, Christopher and Wicks, Alfred (eds.) In Special Topics in Structural Dynamics, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013. Springer New York, NY. pp. 555-560 . (doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6546-1_58).

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Abstract

A viable way to increase the band-width of a vibration-based energy harvester is exploiting the frequency response of non-linear oscillators. In the literature there are several works on resonating energy harvesters featuring non-linear oscillators. In the majority of these works, the harvester powers purely resistive loads. Given the complex behaviour of non-linear energy harvesters, it is difficult to identify the optimum load for these kind of devices. The aim of this work is to find the optimal load for a non-linear energy harvester in the case of purely resistive loads. The work, following the analysis of a non-linear energy harvesting with hardening compliance, introduces a methodology based on numerical continuation which can be used to find the optimum load once the characteristics of device as well as the excitation is known.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 26 June 2013
Published date: 26 June 2013

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Local EPrints ID: 491088
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/491088
ISSN: 2191-5644
PURE UUID: 398cd6d8-1ff2-48f7-baa0-dc078640141e
ORCID for A. Cammarano: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8222-8150

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Author: A. Cammarano ORCID iD
Author: A. Gonzalez-Buelga
Author: S.A. Neild
Author: D.J. Wagg
Author: S.G. Burrow
Author: D.J. Inman
Editor: Randall Allemang
Editor: James De Clerck
Editor: Christopher Niezrecki
Editor: Alfred Wicks

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