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Vibration energy harvesting of multifunctional carbon fibre composite laminate structures

Alsaadi, Ahmed
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Shi, Yu
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Pan, Lei
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Tao, Jie
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Jia, Yu
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University of Chester; Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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A sustainable power supply for a wide range of applications, such as powering sensors for structural health monitoring and wireless sensoring nodes for data transmission and communication used in unmanned air vehicles, automobiles, renewable energy sectors, and smart city technologies, is targeted. This paper presents an experimental and numerical study that describes an innovative technique to harvest energy resulted from environmental vibrations. A piezoelectric energy harvester was integrated onto a carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminate structure using the co-curing method. The integrated composite with the energy harvester was lightweight, flexible and provided robust and reliable energy outcomes, which can be used to power different low-powered wireless sensing nodes. A normalised power density of 97  μW cm−3m−2s4 was obtained from resonance frequency of 46 Hz sinusoidal waves at amplitude of 0.2 g; while the representative environmental vibration waves in various applications (aerospace, automotive, machine and bridge infrastructure) were experimentally and numerically investigated to find out the energy that can be harvested by such a multifunctional composite structure. The results showed the energy harvested at different vibration input from various industrial sectors could be sufficient to power an autonomous structural health monitoring system and wireless communications by the designed composite structure.
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Alsaadi, A., Shi, Y., Pan, L., Tao, J., & Jia, Y. (2019). Vibration energy harvesting of multifunctional carbon fibre composite laminate structures. Composites Science and technology, 178(7 July 2019), pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2019.04.020
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Composites Science and Technology
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http://hdl.handle.net/10034/623831
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