Journal article
Recent Advances in Energy Harvesting Technologies for Structural Health Monitoring Applications
Smart materials research, Vol.2014, pp.1-14
2014
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/107411
Abstract
This paper reviews recent developments in energy harvesting technologies for structural health monitoring applications. Many industries have a great deal of interest in obtaining technology that can be used to monitor the health of machinery and structures. In particular, the need for autonomous monitoring of structures has been ever-increasing in recent years. Autonomous SHM systems typically include embedded sensors, data acquisition, wireless communication, and energy harvesting systems. Among all of these components, this paper focuses on the energy harvesting technologies. Since low-power sensors and wireless communications are used in newer SHM systems, a number of researchers have recently investigated techniques to extract energy from the local environment to power these stand-alone systems. Ambient energy sources include vibration, thermal gradients, solar, wind, pressure, etc. If the structure has a rich enough loading, then it may be possible to extract the needed power directly from the structure itself. Harvesting energy using piezoelectric materials by converting applied stress to electricity is most common. Other methods to harvest energy such as electromagnetic, magnetostrictive, or thermoelectric generator are also reviewed. Lastly, an energy harvester with frequency tuning capability is demonstrated.
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- Title
- Recent Advances in Energy Harvesting Technologies for Structural Health Monitoring Applications
- Creators
- Joseph Davidson - School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA 99354, USAChangki Mo - School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA 99354, USA
- Publication Details
- Smart materials research, Vol.2014, pp.1-14
- Academic Unit
- Mechanical and Materials Engineering, School of
- Identifiers
- 99900547196701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article