Railways, as one of the most important forms of transportation, have been developed rapidly
throughout the world. Meanwhile, the energy consumption and carbon emissions of railway …

This paper presents a state-of-the-art review on a hot topic in the literature, ie, vibration
based energy harvesting techniques, including theory, modelling methods and the …

Vibration energy harvesters are emerging as a promising solution for powering small-scale
electronics, such as sensors and monitoring devices, especially in applications where …

Metamaterials and phononic crystals (PCs) with artificially designed periodic microstructures
have attracted increasing research interests due to their unique properties that cannot be …

The use of smart materials as transducers in mechanical energy harvesting systems has
gained significant attention in recent years. Despite the numerous proposed solutions in the …

Aiming to achieve the high-performance piezoelectric energy harvester under broadband
vibrations, an outer-inner magnetic two-degree-of-freedom piezoelectric energy harvester is …

Internal resonance is explored as a possible mechanism to enhance vibration-based energy
harvesting. An electromagnetic device with snap-through nonlinearity is proposed as an …

Energy harvesting from wind-induced vibration energy using piezoelectric materials has
received great attention because of the self-powered demand for wireless sensor networks …

Vibration energy harvesting converts mechanical energy from ambient sources to electricity
to power remote sensors. Compared to linear resonators that have poor performance away …

When a bistable energy harvester (BEH) is driven by weak random excitation, its harvesting
efficiency will decrease due to the seldom occurrence of interwell motion. To overcome this …