Abstract

These days, piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) is introduced as one of the clean and renewable energy sources for powering the self-powered sensors utilized for wireless condition monitoring of structures. However, low efficiency is the biggest drawback of PEHs. This paper introduces an innovative embedded metamaterial subframe (MetaSub) patch as a practical solution to address the low throughput limitation of conventional PEHs whose host structure has already been constructed or installed. To evaluate the performance of the embedded MetaSub patch (EMSP), a cantilever beam is considered as the host structure in this study. The EMSP transfers the auxetic behavior to the piezoelectric element (PZT) wherever substituting a regular beam with an auxetic beam is either impracticable or suboptimal. The concept of the EMSP is numerically validated, and the comsol multiphysics software was employed to investigate its performance when a cantilever beam is subjected to different amplitude and frequency. The finite element model results demonstrate that the harvesting power in cases that use the EMSP can be amplified up to 5.5 times compared to a piezoelectric cantilever energy harvester without patch. This paper opens up a great potential of using EMSP for different types of energy harvesting systems in biomedical, acoustics, civil, electrical, aerospace, and mechanical engineering applications.

Issue Section:
Research Papers
Keywords:
cantilever beam energy harvester, embedded metamaterial subframe patch, kirigami, auxetic, self-powered SHM, metaSub, electronic hardware, electronics, manufacturing processes, mechanical engineering, power systems, sensors, vibrations
Topics:
Cantilever beams, Energy harvesting, Mechanical engineering, Metamaterials, Sensors, Cantilevers, Finite element model, Vibration, Computer software, Simulation

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