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Analysis of Energy Harvesters for Highway Bridges

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In this paper, the possibility of using piezoelectric energy harvesters as energy scavenging devices in highway bridges was investigated, where the structural vibration due to the motion of a load (vehicle) on the bridge was considered.
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This article investigates the possibility of piezoelectric energy harvesters as energy scavenging devices in highway bridges. The structural vibration due to the motion of a load (vehicle) on the b...

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High-Performance Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters and Their Applications

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of piezoelectric energy-harvesting techniques developed in the last decade is presented, identifying four promising applications: shoes, pacemakers, tire pressure monitoring systems, and bridge and building monitoring.
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A review of energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials: state-of-the-art a decade later (2008–2018)

TL;DR: This paper presents an update to the authors' previous review paper by summarizing the notable developments in the field of piezoelectric energy harvesting through the past decade.
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Energy harvesting technologies in roadway and bridge for different applications – A comprehensive review

TL;DR: Different energy-harvesting technologies were compared in terms of power output, cost-effectiveness, technology readiness level, advantages and disadvantages, support from government and industry, and future research recommendations of energy harvesting in roadway and bridge were proposed.
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Buckling-induced smart applications: recent advances and trends

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the recent advances in buckling-induced smart applications and explain why buckling responses have certain advantages and are especially suitable for these particular applications, and identify potential research avenues and emerging trends for using buckling and other elastic instabilities for future innovations.
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Energy autonomous electronic skin

TL;DR: The paper highlights the key challenges, critical design strategies, and most promising materials for the development of an energy-autonomous e-skin for robotics, prosthetics and wearable systems.
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Dynamics of Structures: Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a single-degree-of-freedom (SDF) system, which is composed of a mass-spring-damper system and a non-viscous Damping Free Vibration (NFV) system.
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Energy harvesting vibration sources for microsystems applications

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of existing piezoelectric generators is presented in this paper, including impact coupled, resonant and human-based devices, including large scale discrete devices and wafer-scale integrated versions.
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A review of power harvesting using piezoelectric materials (2003–2006)

TL;DR: The field of power harvesting has experienced significant growth over the past few years due to the ever-increasing desire to produce portable and wireless electronics with extended lifespans as mentioned in this paper, and the use of batteries can be troublesome due to their limited lifespan, thus necessitating their periodic replacement.
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TL;DR: In this paper, one-dimensional solids, two-dimensional and three-dimensional (3D) solids have been studied in the context of special problems, where the problem is to solve a special problem.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide contemporary coverage of the primary concepts and techniques in vibration analysis, and more elementary material has been added to the first four chapters of this second edition for an updated and expanded introduction to vibration analysis.
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