Nonlinear characterization of concurrent energy harvesting from galloping and base excitations

An energy harvester is proposed to concurrently harness energy from base and galloping excitations. This harvester consists of a triangular cross-sectional tip mass attached to a multilayered piezoelectric cantilever beam and placed in an incompressible flow and subjected to a harmonic base excitation in the cross-flow direction. A coupled nonlinear-distributed-parameter model is developed representing the dynamics of the transverse degree of freedom and the generated voltage. The galloping force and moment are modeled by using a nonlinear quasi-steady approximation. Under combined loadings and when the excitation frequency is away from the global natural frequency of the harvester, the response of the harvester mainly contains these two harmonic frequencies. Thus, the harvester’s response is generally aperiodic and is either periodic with large period (i.e., period- \(n\) ), or quasi-periodic, or chaotic. To characterize the harvester’s response under a combination of vibratory base excitations and aerodynamic loading, we use modern methods of nonlinear dynamics, such as phase portraits, power spectra, and Poincaré sections. A further analysis is then performed to determine the effects of the wind speed, frequency excitation, base acceleration, and electrical load resistance on the performance of the harvester under separate loadings.     

Piezoelectric energy harvesting from concurrent vortex-induced vibrations and base excitations

We investigate the potential of using a piezoelectric energy harvester to concurrently harness energy from base excitations and vortex-induced vibrations. The harvester consists of a multilayered piezoelectric cantilever beam with a circular cylinder tip mass attached to its free end which is placed in a uniform air flow and subjected to direct harmonic excitations. We model the fluctuating lift coefficient by a van der Pol wake oscillator. The Euler–Lagrange principle and the Galerkin procedure are used to derive a nonlinear distributed-parameter model for a harvester under a combination of vibratory base excitations and vortex-induced vibrations. Linear and nonlinear analyses are performed to investigate the effects of the electrical load resistance, wind speed, and base acceleration on the coupled frequency, electromechanical damping, and performance of the harvester. It is demonstrated that, when the wind speed is in the pre- or post-synchronization regions, its associated electromechanical damping is increased and hence a reduction in the harvested power is obtained. When the wind speed is in the lock-in or synchronization region, the results show that there is a significant improvement in the level of the harvested power which can attain 150 % compared to using two separate harvesters. The results also show that an increase of the base acceleration results in a reduction in the vortex-induced vibrations effects, an increase of the difference between the resonant excitation frequency and the pull-out frequency, and a significant effects associated with the quenching phenomenon.     

双稳态电磁式振动能量捕获器超谐波响应研究

超谐波响应是非线性振动系统在较大激励下表现的特性,在某种条件下双稳态振动能量捕获系统的超谐波响应可使系统产生优越的输出功率。本文将质量-非线性弹簧-阻尼系统与双稳态振动能量捕获器相结合,提出了附加非线性振子的双稳态电磁式振动能量捕获器,建立系统的力学模型及控制方程。采用两项式谐波平衡法,获得了双稳态系统在简谐激励下产生大幅运动的基谐波和超谐波响应的解析解,借助数值仿真分析了质量比和调频比对双稳态振动能量捕获器产生大幅运动的影响规律,获得了双稳态系统的结构参数的最佳配置范围,且当外部激励频率处于低频段时,系统发电主要表现为超谐波发电,随着激励频率的增大,振动发电系统主要呈现基谐波发电。上述研究,为双稳态能量捕获装置的理论研究提供了参考。     

线形?拱形组合梁式三稳态压电俘能器动力学特性研究

利用振动能量俘获技术将设备工况振动能转化为电能, 为实现煤矿井下无线监测节点自供电提供了新的思路. 通过引入非线性磁力设计了一种线形?拱形组合梁式三稳态压电俘能器, 分析了磁铁水平间距、垂直间距和激励加速度对动力学特性的影响规律. 利用磁偶极子法建立磁力模型, 通过实验测量线形?拱形组合梁的恢复力, 并采用多项式拟合得到恢复力模型, 基于欧拉?伯努利梁理论和拉格朗日方程建立系统的动力学模型, 从时域角度仿真分析了磁铁水平间距、垂直间距和激励加速度对系统动力学特性的影响规律. 研制线形?拱形组合梁式三稳态压电俘能器样机并搭建实验平台进行实验研究, 通过采集组合梁末端响应速度数据, 验证了理论分析的正确性. 研究表明: 引入非线性磁场能够使系统势能呈现单势阱、双势阱或三势阱, 激励一定时, 调整磁铁水平间距和垂直间距能够使系统实现单稳态、双稳态或三稳态运动, 且在三稳态运动时响应位移较大, 增大激励水平有利于系统越过势垒实现大幅响应. 研究为线形?拱形组合梁式三稳态压电俘能器的设计提供了理论指导.      

Global nonlinear distributed-parameter model of parametrically excited piezoelectric energy harvesters

A global nonlinear distributed-parameter model for a piezoelectric energy harvester under parametric excitation is developed. The harvester consists of a unimorph piezoelectric cantilever beam with a tip mass. The derived model accounts for geometric, inertia, piezoelectric, and fluid drag nonlinearities. A reduced-order model is derived by using the Euler–Lagrange principle and Gauss law and implementing a Galerkin discretization. The method of multiple scales is used to obtain analytical expressions for the tip deflection, output voltage, and harvested power near the first principal parametric resonance. The effects of the nonlinear piezoelectric coefficients, the quadratic damping, and the excitation amplitude on the output voltage and harvested electrical power are quantified. The results show that a one-mode approximation in the Galerkin approach is not sufficient to evaluate the performance of the harvester. Furthermore, the nonlinear piezoelectric coefficients have an important influence on the harvester’s behavior in terms of softening or hardening. Depending on the excitation frequency, it is determined that, for small values of the quadratic damping, there is an overhang associated with a subcritical pitchfork bifurcation.     

附磁阶梯变厚度悬臂梁压电俘能器的理论建模及分析

论文建立了一种附磁阶梯变厚度压电悬臂梁的动力学模型并分析了系统的俘能特性。基于Euler-Bernoulli梁理论分段建立系统能量函数并引入非线性磁势能，利用Lagrange方程建立了系统机电耦合动力学方程；利用数值方法分析了磁间距对系统振动特性的影响，此外还研究了系统单稳态和双稳态响应，探讨了厚度比、长度比、磁间距和外激励幅值对系统动力学响应和俘能特性的影响。结果表明，磁间距是影响系统势能的主要因素，调节磁间距可使系统产生单稳态和双稳态响应，从而有效提高俘能器俘能特性；与传统等截面悬臂梁压电俘能器相比，通过优化结构参数，附磁阶梯变厚度悬臂梁压电俘能器能够发生明显的非线性振动现象，实现宽频带振动能量采集。     

Nonlinear energy harvesting from vibratory disc-shaped piezoelectric laminates

Implementing resonators with geometrical nonlinearities in vibrational energy harvesting systems leads to considerable enhancement of their operational bandwidths. This advantage of nonlinear devices in comparison to their linear counterparts is much more obvious especially at small-scale where transition to nonlinear regime of vibration occurs at moderately small amplitudes of the base excitation. In this paper the nonlinear behavior of a disc-shaped piezoelectric laminated harvester considering midplane-stretching effect is investigated. Extended Hamilton's principle is exploited to extract electromechanically coupled governing partial differential equations of the system. The equations are firstly order-reduced and then analytically solved implementing perturbation method of multiple scales. A nonlinear finite element method(FEM) simulation of the system is performed additionally for the purpose of verification which shows agreement with the analytical solution to a large extent. The frequency response of the output power at primary resonance of the harvester is calculated to investigate the effect of nonlinearity on the system performance. Effect of various parameters including mechanical quality factor, external load impedance and base excitation amplitude on the behavior of the system are studied. Findings indicate that in the nonlinear regime both output power and operational bandwidth of the harvester will be enhanced by increasing the mechanical quality factor which can be considered as a significant advantage in comparison to linear harvesters in which these two factors vary in opposite ways as quality factor is changed.     

Incident flow effects on the performance of piezoelectric energy harvesters from galloping vibrations

In this paper, we investigate experimentally the concept of energy harvesting from galloping oscillations with a focus on wake and turbulence effects. The harvester is composed of a unimorph piezoelectric cantilever beam with a square cross-section tip mass. In one case, the harvester is placed in the wake of another galloping harvester with the objective of determining the wake effects on the response of the harvester. In the second case, meshes were placed upstream of the harvester with the objective of investigating the effects of upstream turbulence on the response of the harvester. The results show that both wake effects and upstream turbulence significantly affect the response of the harvester. Depending on the spacing between the two squares and the opening size of the mesh, wake and upstream turbulence can positively enhance the level of the harvested power.     

Hopf bifurcation analysis of reaction–diffusion neural oscillator system with excitatory-to-inhibitory connection and time delay

The active control approach generally requires power input to suppress vibrations of structures, while the conventional passive manner often causes waste of energy after transferring vibrations of the primary structure to the auxiliary system. In this work, an innovative control strategy based on energy harvesting for efficiently suppressing the cross-flow-induced vibrations such as galloping is proposed. The novel design facilitates the harvester of not only alleviating the oscillation of the primary structure but also seizing the transferred vibrational energy. An analytical model for the coupled nonlinear dynamical system is established by utilizing the Euler–Lagrange principle and implementing the Galerkin discretization. The impacts of the electrical load resistance and tip mass of the energy harvester on the coupled frequency, damping, and the onset speed of instability of the coupled multi-mode system are investigated in details. The results show that there exists an optimal load resistance for each tip mass which maximizes the onset speed of galloping. For control purposes, it is found that there is a well-defined tip mass of the energy harvester at which the coupled system has the highest onset speed of instability, and hence, the bluff body has the lowest vibration amplitude for all considered load resistances. However, to efficiently harvest energy and control the bluff body, both the tip mass of the energy harvester and electrical load resistance can be accurately determined.     

Effects of nonlinear piezoelectric coupling on energy harvesters under direct excitation

A nonlinear analysis of an energy harvester consisting of a multilayered cantilever beam with a tip mass is performed. The model takes into account geometric, inertia, and piezoelectric nonlinearities. A combination of the Galerkin technique, the extended Hamilton principle, and the Gauss law is used to derive a reduced-order model of the harvester. The method of multiple scales is used to determine analytical expressions for the tip deflection, output voltage, and harvested power near the first global natural frequency. The results show that one- or two-mode approximations are not sufficient to produce accurate estimates of the voltage and harvested power. A parametric study is performed to investigate the effects of the nonlinear piezoelectric coefficients and the excitation amplitude on the system response. The effective nonlinearity may be of the hardening or softening type, depending on the relative magnitudes of the different nonlinearities.     

基于人体运动的压电-电磁混合式振动能量采集研究

将人体运动产生的动能转化为可利用的电能为传感器供电一直是能量采研究中的一个热点。如何有效利用人体运动，增强环境适应能力以及提高能量采集性能仍是俘能研究中需要解决的关键问题。本文基于人体运动特性，设计了一种新型的混合式能量采集器，同时具有压电和电磁转化机制。压电俘能是基于压电梁变形产生电能，电磁发电机采用堆叠磁组构型来切割线圈产生电动势。首先建立了混合式能量采集器的动力学理论模型，用来描述输出电压特性，并与实验进行了对比验证。理论与实验研究均表明，混合式俘能器的输出电压在一定激励频率范围内出现两个波峰。通过调节压电梁长度，可以改变峰值大小以及两个峰值间的频段范围。人体运动实验表明，混合式俘能器中可以在短时间内提供较高的电压输出，比如当跑步速度为5km/h时，3s内就可以输出1.1V直流电压驱动传感器工作；跑步时长为30s时，传感器正常工作时常可以达到77s。本文设计的混合式俘能器不仅可以快速供电，还具有较强的续航能力，这为电池充电或传感器供电提供了潜在的应用价值。     

Accurate modeling,comparative analysis,and performance enhancement of broadband piezoelectric energy harvesters with single and dual magnetic forces

The accurate electromechanical modeling and effectiveness of a piezoelectric energy harvester having dual magnetic forces at its tip is evaluated for low-frequency excitation purposes. To accurately represent the magnetic force, the exact finite element magnetic force is accurately fitted with a fifth-order polynomial representation in order to use it for low spacing distances between the two magnets. A comparative study is then carried out between the performances of piezoelectric energy harvesters having single and dual magnetic forces. It is indicated that hardening nonlinear behaviors take place in the dual attractive magnets compared to softening behaviors in the single magnet design. Static and eigenvalue problem analyses are also performed in order to determine the impacts of the spacing distance between the magnets on the static deflection and fundamental natural frequency of the energy harvester. The results show that the inclusion of a second magnetic force with an attractive interaction results in a delay in the static pull-in and a decrease in the fundamental natural frequency for same spacing distances. After that, a nonlinear distributed-parameter model is derived using the Galerkin discretization and used to study the performance and effectiveness of a piezoelectric energy harvester with dual attractive magnetic forces. The results show that the attractive dual magnets with same spacing distances lead to the presence of broadband resonance regions when the spacing distance between the magnets decreases to lower values. In addition, unlike the dual magnetic forces configuration which has only cubic nonlinearity, it is demonstrated that the single magnetic force configuration results in the presence of the quadratic nonlinearity which allows the energy harvester to have a softening behavior.     

Exploiting the subharmonic parametric resonances of a buckled beam for vibratory energy harvesting

The potential of harvesting vibratory energy via a bistable beam subjected to subharmonic parametric excitations is investigated. The vibrating structure is a buckled beam with two stable equilibria separated by a potential barrier. The beam is subjected to a superposition of a static axial load beyond its buckling load and a harmonic axial excitation whose frequency is around twice the frequency of the buckled beam’s first vibration mode. A macro-fiber composite patch is attached to one side of the beam to convert the strain energy resulting from the beam’s oscillation into electricity. The study considers two regimes of excitations: an amplitude sweep and a frequency sweep. In the first regime, the amplitude of excitation is quasi-statically varied while the excitation frequency is tuned at twice the natural frequency of the first vibration mode. In the second regime, the excitation frequency is swept forward and backward around the subharmonic resonant frequency while the amplitude of excitation is kept constant. A theoretical model which governs the electromechanical coupling of the transverse vibrations of the beam and the output voltage is used to monitor the response as the excitation parameters are changed. An experimental setup is also built and a series of tests is performed to validate the theoretical findings. It is shown that, depending on the amplitude and frequency of excitation, the harvester can perform small-amplitude periodic intra-well motion, intra- and inter-well chaotic motions, as well as periodic inter-well motions. Experimental results also show that, as compared to the classical linear resonance, utilizing the sub-harmonic resonance of a bistable energy harvesters can result in a broadband frequency response.     

Dynamic analysis of piezoelectric energy harvester under combination parametric and internal resonance: a theoretical and experimental study

In this work, theoretical and experimental analysis of a piezoelectric energy harvester with parametric base excitation is presented under combination parametric resonance condition. The harvester consists of a cantilever beam with a piezoelectric patch and an attached mass, which is positioned in such a way that the system exhibits 1:3 internal resonance. The generalized Galerkin’s method up to two modes is used to obtain the temporal form of the nonlinear electromechanical governing equation of motion. The method of multiple scales is used to reduce the equations of motion into a set of first-order differential equations. The fixed-point response and the stability of the system under combination parametric resonance are studied. The multi-branched non-trivial response exhibits bifurcations such as turning point and Hopf bifurcations. Experiments are performed under various resonance conditions. This study on the parametric excitation along with combination and internal resonances will help to harvest energy for a wider frequency range from ambient vibrations.

     

Enhanced galloping energy harvester with cooperative mode of vibration and collision

The low power and narrow speed range remain bottlenecks that constrain the application of small-scale wind energy harvesting. This paper proposes a simple, low-cost, and reliable method to address these critical issues. A galloping energy harvester with the cooperative mode of vibration and collision (GEH-VC) is presented. A pair of curved boundaries attached with functional materials are introduced, which not only improve the performance of the vibration energy harvesting system, but also convert more mechanical energy into electrical energy during collision. The beam deforms and the piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) generates electricity during the flow-induced vibration. In addition, the beam contacts and separates from the boundaries, and the triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) generates electricity during the collision. In order to reduce the influence of the boundaries on the aerodynamic performance and the feasibility of increasing the working area of the TENG, a vertical structure is designed. When the wind speed is high, the curved boundaries maintain a stable amplitude of the vibration system and increase the frequency of the vibration system, thereby avoiding damage to the piezoelectric sheet and improving the electromechanical conversion efficiency, and the TENG works with the PEH to generate electricity. Since the boundaries can protect the PEH at high wind speeds, its stiffness can be designed to be low to start working at low wind speeds. The electromechanical coupling dynamic model is established according to the GEH-VC operating principle and is verified experimentally. The results show that the GEH-VC has a wide range of operating wind speeds, and the average power can be increased by 180% compared with the traditional galloping PEH. The GEH-VC prototype is demonstrated to power a commercial temperature sensor. This study provides a novel perspective on the design of hybrid electromechanical conversion mechanisms, that is, to combine and collaborate based on their respective characteristics.

     

磁耦合式双稳态宽频压电俘能器的设计和俘能特性

为了同时提高振动能量俘获系统的效率和实用性, 俘能器主结构的振动特性与环境振动特性的匹配度显得尤为重要. 非线性系统复杂的动力学行为为设计高效的俘能器奠定了基础, 但结构一旦被设计、生成出来, 其工作频率往往是固定的, 无法根据环境中的振动而发生相应的改变. 本文利用可移动铰支座和非线性磁力设计了一种具有双稳态特性的宽频压电俘能器, 通过拓宽压电俘能器的工作频带, 来匹配环境中较宽的振动频率. 为了保证系统低频宽带的俘能效果, 详细分析了结构的长度比、磁间距、负载阻抗、外激励频率和幅值等对系统线性刚度、非线性刚度以及动力学行为的影响, 并进行了实验验证. 首先将系统简化为欧拉-伯努力梁, 利用拉格朗日方程建立系统的非线性动力学方程, 并利用谐波平衡法进行求解. 针对理论分析给出的不同外激励频率下的最优长度比, 搭建了实验平台进行验证. 理论和实验的结果表明: 非线性磁力的引入使系统呈现负刚度特性, 使俘能器能够在单稳态和双稳态之间的变换, 实现低频俘能效果; 通过调节可移动铰支座的位置, 改变系统的长细比, 能够实现从0到16 Hz的宽频俘能效果.      

面内压电振动能量采集动力学设计与性能研究

压电振动能量采集将环境中普遍存在的机械能转换为电能，可以实现自供能传感、控制与驱动，具备灵活、节能环保、可持续的优势，具有广阔的应用前景。为了促进压电振动能量采集器件的集成与融合，提出面内压电振动能量采集，将压电振动能量采集器进行扁平化设计，使其在二维平面内采集振动能量，在保证较大功率输出下能够显著减小器件所需三维空间。为了提高输出功率与工作频宽，设计了具有双稳态与力放大机制的面内压电振动能量采集器。考虑弯张小变形，通过能量法建立了面内压电振动能量采集器的机电耦合动力学模型。分析了关键设计参数对面内压电振动能量采集器性能的影响。数值仿真了面内压电振动能量采集器在简谐激励下的俘能性能，结果表明，通过合理的设计，面内压电振动能量采集器可以低频、宽频弱激励下有效俘获能量。面内压电振动能量采集设计方法有利于推动便携式、可穿戴式自供能等方面的应用和产业化。     

Non-linear interactions in imperfect beams at veering

Non-linear interactions in a hinged-hinged uniform moderately curved beam with a torsional spring at one end are investigated. The two-mode interaction is a one-to-one autoparametric resonance activated in the vicinity of veering of the frequencies of the lowest two modes and results from the non-linear stretching of the beam centerline. The excitation is a base acceleration that is involved in a primary resonance with either the first mode only or with both modes. The ensuing non-linear responses and their stability are studied by computing force- and frequency-response curves via bifurcation analysis tools. Both the sensitivity of the internal resonance detuning—the gap between the veering frequencies—and the linear modal structure are investigated by varying the rise of the beam half-sinusoidal rest configuration and the torsional spring constant. The internal and external resonance detunings are varied accordingly to construct the non-linear system response curves. The beam mixed-mode response is shown to undergo several bifurcations, including Hopf and homoclinic bifurcations, along with the phenomenon of frequency island generation and mode localization.     

Power extraction from aeroelastic limit cycle oscillations

Nonlinear limit cycle oscillations of an aeroelastic energy harvester are exploited for enhanced piezoelectric power generation from aerodynamic flows. Specifically, a flexible beam with piezoelectric laminates is excited by a uniform axial flow field in a manner analogous to a flapping flag such that the system delivers power to an electrical impedance load. Fluid–structure interaction is modeled by augmenting a system of nonlinear equations for an electroelastic beam with a discretized vortex-lattice potential flow model. Experimental results from a prototype aeroelastic energy harvester are also presented. Root mean square electrical power on the order of 2.5 mW was delivered below the flutter boundary of the test apparatus at a comparatively low wind speed of 27 m/s and a chord normalized limit cycle amplitude of 0.33. Moreover, subcritical limit cycles with chord normalized amplitudes of up to 0.46 were observed. Calculations indicate that the system tested here was able to access over 17% of the flow energy to which it was exposed. Methods for designing aeroelastic energy harvesters by exploiting nonlinear aeroelastic phenomena and potential improvements to existing relevant aerodynamic models are also discussed.     

线绳驱动转速提升式低频俘能器的设计与研究

俘获周围环境中丰富的低频机械能对减少废旧电池数量、实现自维持传感器、降低传感器网络的使用和维护成本等具有重要意义, 但传统的振动型俘能器对低频机械能的俘获效果不佳. 为了有效收集周围环境中的低频机械能, 本文提出一种线绳驱动、具备转速提升功能的电磁式俘能器, 首先借助线绳驱动转轴结构将低频振动转换为双向旋转运动, 再通过刚度自动改变的拨片和磁齿轮将双向旋转运动转换为转速更高的单向旋转运动, 从而提高输出功率. 对所提出的俘能器建立了机电耦合动力学模型, 并通过样机制作和实验测试证实了理论模型的正确性. 实验研究表明, 在激励幅值40 mm和激励频率2 Hz的条件下, 通过本文设计制作的2.5倍转速提升功能的磁齿轮, 可将线绳驱动电磁式俘能器的最大输出功率增加至7.82 mW, 比对应的无磁齿轮提升转速的线绳驱动电磁式俘能器的最大输出功率(3.22 mW)高约143%. 在相同的激励条件下, 制作的俘能器的交流电能经过桥式整流器转换为直流后, 可在1.2 s内将220 μF储能电容器的电压从0 V提升至1.5 V. 在低频、不规则的振动激励下, 所制作的俘能器仍可提供0.35 mW的输出功率, 为设计高性能低频俘能器提供一条可行的解决方案.