Mechanical Design of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters

Mechanical Design of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters: Generating Electricity from Human Walking provides the state-of-the-art, recent mechanical designs of piezoelectric energy harvesters based on piezoelectric stacks. The book discusses innovative mechanism designs for energy harvesting from multidimensional force excitation, such as human walking, which offers higher energy density. Coverage includes analytical modeling, optimal design, simulation study, prototype fabrication, and experimental investigation. Detailed examples of their analyses and implementations are provided. The book's authors provide a unique perspective on this field, primarily focusing on novel designs for PZT Energy harvesting in biomedical engineering as well as in integrated multi-stage force amplification frame.

This book presents force-amplification compliant mechanism design and force direction-transmission mechanism design. It explores new mechanism design approaches using piezoelectric materials and permanent magnets. Readers can expect to learn how to design new mechanisms to realize multidimensional energy harvesting systems.

1. Introduction
2. Energy Harvesting Materials and Circuits
3. Survey on Mechanical Designs of Piezoelectric Energy Harvester
4. Review of Energy Harvesting from Human Walking
5. Design of a New Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Based on Compound Two-Stage Force Amplification Frame
6. Design of a New Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Handrail with Vibration and Force Excitations
7. Design of a Novel Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Based on Integrated Multi-Stage Force Amplification Frame
8. Design and Testing of a Novel Bidirectional Energy Harvester with Single Piezoelectric Stack
9. Design and Testing of a Novel 2-D Energy Harvester with Single Piezoelectric Stack
10. Design of a Novel 2-D Piezoelectric Energy Harvester with Permanent Magnets and Multi-Stage Force Amplifier
11. Design and Testing of a New Dual-Axial Underfloor Piezoelectric Energy Harvester
12. Design, Fabrication and Testing of a Novel 3-D Energy Harvester
13. Conclusions

Prof. Qingsong XU has been working in the area of mechatronics and robotics for 15 years. He has published over 270 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences in related domains.
Prof. Lap Mou TAM has been working in the area of heat transfer, energy systems, and chaos for 30 years. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences in related domains.