Dynamics of a nonlinear energy harvester with subharmonic responses

Abstract:

A frequency transmission band of the nonlinear energy harvester shall be studied
numerically. For the analysis, the nonlinear piezoelectric energy harvesting system based on a cantilever elastic beam has been applied to harvest the kinetic energy of the moving frame. We used a double-well potential induced by permanent magnets for a ferromagnetic beam resonator. A piezoelectric patch attached along the beam was used as a transducer of the mechanical into electrical energy. It occurred that the system could work in a wide interval of frequency beyond
the linear resonance. Besides the response with a period of excitation, solutions with dominating sub-harmonics of the harmonic inertial force excitation have been found. Particular solutions were illustrated, classified, and discussed using phase portraits and Fourier spectra of the output signal.


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Authors:

Grzegorz Litak, Bartłomiej Ambrożkiewicz, Piotr Wolszczak

This paper was published in: l 2021 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1736 012032

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ehDialog This work was supported by the program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland under the project DIALOG 0019/DLG/2019/10 in the years 2019-2021.