Review of piezoelectric actuator applications in damaged structures: Challenges and opportunities

A Aabid, M Hrairi, SJ Mohamed Ali, YE Ibrahim - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
Piezoelectric material transducers can work as an actuator or sensor. Generally, the actuator
will be used to repair the structure, and the sensor will be used to find the health condition. In …

Survey of active structural control and repair using piezoelectric patches

A Abuzaid, M Hrairi, MSI Shaik Dawood - Actuators, 2015 - mdpi.com
The piezoelectric actuator has gained popularity over the last few years. Attention has been
directed towards the study of their electromechanical response in active repair and the …

Self-powered sound detection and recognition sensors based on flexible polyvinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene films enhanced by in-situ polarization

Z Guo, S Liu, X Hu, Q Zhang, F Shang, S Song… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2020 - Elsevier
A flexible, accurate and highly sensitive sound detection and recognition sensor was
fabricated in this study; this was achieved by employing a polyvinylidene fluoride …

(BaCa) TiO3 nanopowder: Synthesis and their electrical and biological characteristics

N Ahmadi, M Kharaziha, S Labbaf - Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the applicable piezoelectric property of BaTiO 3 (BT), its biomedical applications
have been limited due to its weak bioactivity and osteoconductivity. To overcome these …

[PDF][PDF] Dynamic analysis of piezoelectric perforated cantilever bimorph energy harvester via finite element analysis

YA Alessi, I Ali, MA Alazwari, K Almitani… - Advances in Aircraft …, 2023 - researchgate.net
This article presents a numerical analysis to investigate the natural frequencies and
harmonic response of a perforated cantilever beam attached to two layers of piezoelectric …

Design of a low frequency piezoelectric energy harvester for rodent telemetry

B Badr, KR Delaney, N Dechev - Ferroelectrics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This work presents the design and simulation of a piezoelectric-based device to generate
electrical power by harvesting the kinetic energy available from the natural movement of …

[PDF][PDF] Design piezoelectric energy harvesting using COMSOL for mice telemetry device

BM Badr, KR Delaney, N Dechev - Proceedings of the 2015 COMSOL …, 2015 - comsol.it
Mice are important animals used for biomedical research, and are widely used to study
various disease models. When studying the behavior of mice and gathering biological data …

Design and optimization of a novel magnetically-actuated micromanipulator

M Al Mashagbeh, T Al-Dulaimi… - Microsystem Technologies, 2017 - Springer
The ability of external magnetic fields to precisely control micromanipulators has received a
great deal of attention from researchers in recent years due to its off-board power source …

Artificial electrostriction in composite materials

A Singh, MJA Smith… - Journal of the Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We examine the role of artificial electrostriction in composites comprising solid materials,
extending earlier theoretical models that omit the effect of shear. We accurately describe …

Wireless power transfer for implantable biomedical devices using adjustable magnetic resonance

BM Badr - 2016 - dspace.library.uvic.ca
Rodents are essential models for research on fundamental neurological processing and for
testing of therapeutic manipulations including drug efficacy studies. Telemetry acquisition …