The fundamental idea of this research work is to present an approach to energy harvesting, which basically uses piezoelectric technology and is implemented in a shoe. It takes advantage of the energy that the user waste ...

A finite element modeling of an intelligent truss structure with piezoelectric stack actuators for the purpose of active damping and structural vibration attenuation is presented. This paper concerns with the following ...

A finite element modeling of an intelligent truss structure with piezoelectric stack actuators for the purpose of active damping and structural vibration attenuation is presented. This paper concerns with the following ...

This work presents a critical analysis of methodologies to evaluate the effective (or generalized) electromechanical coupling coefficient (EMCC) for structures with piezoelectric elements. First, a review of several existing ...

A piezoelectric multilamina shell FE developed to model thin walled structures with piezoelectric fibre composites polarized with interdigitated electrodes (PFCPIE) is proposed in this paper. A new scheme for the interpolation ...

The use of piezoelectric materials in various applications, including the development of bio-inspired structures, vibration control, energy harvesting, among others, has been investigated by several researchers over the ...

Flow pumps act as important devices in areas such as Bioengineering, Medicine, and Pharmacy, among other areas of Engineering, mainly for delivering liquids or gases at small-scale and precision flow rate quantities. ...

The fundamental idea of this research work is to present an approach to energy harvesting, which basically uses piezoelectric technology and is implemented in a shoe. It takes advantage of the energy that the user waste ...

Abstract This paper describes a design methodology for piezoelectric energy harvester s that thinly encapsulate the mechanical devices and expl oit resonances from higher- order vibrational modes. The direction of ...