Piezoelectric Actuators and Generators for Energy Harvesting Research and Development /

• Main Authors: Shevtsov, Sergey N. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Soloviev, Arkady N. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Parinov, Ivan A. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Cherpakov, Alexander V. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Chebanenko, Valery A. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Innovation and Discovery in Russian Science and Engineering,
• Subjects: Energy harvesting.; Electronic circuits.; Renewable energy resources.; Energy Harvesting.; Circuits and Systems.; Renewable and Green Energy.

This book presents new approaches to R&D of piezoelectric actuators and generators of different types based on established, original constructions and contemporary research into framework of theoretical, experimental, and numerical methods of physics, mechanics, and materials science. Improved t...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• General statement of the problems of electroelasticity
• Power high stroke flex-tensional piezoelectric actuator with optimized geometry
• Modeling of stack type piezoelectric generators
• Modeling of cantilever type piezoelectric generators
• Experimental investigations of piezoelectric generators
• Identification of defects in cantilever elastic rod
• Set-up for studying oscillation parameters and identification of defects in rod constructions
• Appendixes.