Vibration energy harvesting is increasingly being seen as a viable energy source to provide for our energy-dependent society. There has been great interest in scavenging previously unused or wasted energy in a large variety of systems including vibrating machinery, ocean waves and human motion. In this work, a bench-top system of a piecewise-linear nonlinear vibration energy harvester is studied. A similar idealized model of the system had previously been studied numerically, and in this work the method is adjusted to better account for the physical system. This new design is able to actively tune the system’s resonant frequency to match the current excitation through the adjustment of the gap size between the oscillator and mechanical stopper; thus maximizing the system response over a broad frequency range. This design shows an increased effective frequency bandwidth compared with traditional linear systems and improves upon current nonlinear designs that are less effective than linear harvesters at resonance. In this paper, the physical system is tested at various excitation conditions and gap sizes to showcase the new harvester design’s effectiveness.
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Veney, Jacob ; D’Souza, Kiran ( , Volume 10: 34th Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Sound (VIB))
Abstract Recently, vibration energy harvesting has been seen as a viable energy source to provide for our energy dependent society. Researchers have studied systems ranging from civil structures like bridges to biomechanical systems including human motion as potential sources of vibration energy. In this work, a bench-top system of a piecewise-linear (PWL) nonlinear vibration harvester is studied. A similar idealized model of the harvester was previously looked at numerically, and in this work the method is adjusted to handle physical systems to construct a realistic harvester design. With the physically realizable harvester design, the resonant frequency of the system is able to be tuned by changing the gap size between the oscillator and mechanical stopper, ensuring optimal performance over a broad frequency range. Current nonlinear harvester designs show decreased performance at certain excitation conditions, but this design overcomes these issues while also still maintaining the performance of a linear harvester at resonance. In this investigation, the system is tested at various excitation conditions and gap sizes. The computational response of the resonance behavior of the PWL system is validated against the experiments. Additionally, the electromechanical response is also validated with the experiments by comparing the output power generated from the experiments with the computational prediction.