A comprehensive review on self-powered smart bearings

Y Zhang, W Wang, X Wu, Y Lei, J Cao, C Bowen… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, with the development of industrial informatization and intellectualization, the
development of smart bearings has attracted a lot of significant attention in an attempt to …

Towards novel energy shunt inspired vibration suppression techniques: principles, designs and applications

X Huang, B Yang - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2023 - Elsevier
Vibration control is an overwhelmingly concerned issue that exists in many industrial fields
such as machinery, aerospace and civil engineering. Indeed, in terms of energy perspective …

Etching metasurfaces on bluff bodies for vortex-induced vibration energy harvesting

J Wang, Y Zhang, M Liu, G Hu - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bluff bodies play crucial roles in affecting the functionality of wind energy harvesting
systems. Inspired by the versatility and wide application of metasurfaces in many fields, we …

[HTML][HTML] A seesaw-inspired bistable energy harvester with adjustable potential wells for self-powered internet of train monitoring

M Liu, Y Zhang, H Fu, Y Qin, A Ding, EM Yeatman - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting provides a potential solution to power distributed sensors for train
condition monitoring in a self-sustained manner, but the broadband and random nature of …

A triboelectric-piezoelectric hybrid nanogenerator for rotational energy harvesting based on bistable cantilever beam

Q Bai, T Zhou, C Gan, Q Wang, X Zheng… - Energy Conversion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents a triboelectric-piezoelectric hybrid nanogenerator for harvesting
rotational energy based on a bistable cantilever beam. The nonlinear bistable behavior …

Improving the gravity-rotation-excited vibration energy harvesting in offset configurations

Y Wang, Y Zhao, Y Tian, D Cao, Z Yang - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The self-powered sensing technology based on gravity-rotation-excited vibration energy
harvesting (GRE-VEH) enables information acquisition directly from rotatory machines …

Design and research of hybrid piezoelectric-electromagnetic energy harvester based on magnetic couple suction-repulsion motion and centrifugal action

J Zhou, L He, L Liu, G Yu, X Gu, G Cheng - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a hybrid piezoelectric-electromagnetic energy harvester (HEH) based on
magnetic couple suction-repulsion motion and centrifugal action is proposed. Using a …

A pendulum-type annular dielectric elastomer generator for multi-directional ultra-low-frequency vibration energy harvesting

Z Lai, M Wu, J Zhang, Z Wang, A Feng, B Lin… - … Systems and Signal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Currently, dielectric elastomer generators (DEGs) demonstrate high energy density, rapid
response, and simple structure in the field of energy harvesting (EH). However, the efficient …

A multi-stable rotational energy harvester for arbitrary bi-directional horizontal excitation at ultra-low frequencies for self-powered sensing

SN Masabi, H Fu, J Flint… - Smart Materials and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
A rotational multi-stable energy harvester has been presented in this paper for harnessing
broadband ultra-low frequency vibrations. The novel design adopts a toroidal-shaped …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-directional and multi-modal vortex-induced vibrations for wind energy harvesting

C **a, L Tang, P Yin, KC Aw - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
A conventional vortex-induced vibration (VIV)-based energy harvester is typically restricted
to capturing wind energy from a very limited range of wind directions, making it inefficient in …