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3D-Printed Gradient-Index Phononic Crystal Lens for Underwater Acoustic Wave Focusing

3D-printed lens for structure-borne wave focusing and energy harvesting

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3D-printed phononic crystal lens for elastic wave focusing and energy harvesting

A Distributed-Parameter Flexoelectric Energy Harvester Model Accounting for Two-Way Coupling and Size Effects

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A general theory for bandgap estimation in locally resonant metastructures

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A piezoelectric bistable plate for nonlinear broadband energy harvesting

Adaptive and active materials: selected papers from the ASME 2012 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS 12) (Stone Mountain, GA, USA, 19–21 September 2012)

Adaptive locally resonant metamaterials leveraging shape memory alloys

An analytical framework for Kirchhoff plate-type locally resonant piezoelectric metastructures

An analytical framework for locally resonant piezoelectric metamaterial plates

An experimentally validated contactless acoustic energy transfer model with resistive-reactive electrical loading

An experimentally validated model for geometrically nonlinear plucking-based frequency up-conversion in energy harvesting

An experimentally validated piezoelectric nonlinear energy sink for wideband vibration attenuation

An investigation of electroelastic bandgap formation in locally resonant piezoelectric metastructures

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Analysis of multifunctional piezoelectric metastructures for low-frequency bandgap formation and energy harvesting

Analytical and Experimental Characterization of Macro-Fiber Composite Actuated Thin Clamped-Free Unimorph Benders

Analytical modeling and experimental validation of a structurally integrated piezoelectric energy harvester on a thin plate

Aspect ratio effects in wind energy harvesting using piezoelectric inverted flags

Aspect ratio-dependent dynamics of piezoelectric transducers in wireless acoustic power transfer

scientific article published on 27 December 2019

Assumed-Modes Formulation of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters: Euler-Bernoulli, Rayleigh and Timoshenko Models With Axial Deformations

Assumed-modes modeling of piezoelectric energy harvesters: Euler–Bernoulli, Rayleigh, and Timoshenko models with axial deformations

Bending strength of piezoelectric ceramics and single crystals for multifunctional load-bearing applications

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Bimorph disk piezoelectric energy harvester under base excitation: electroelastic modeling and experimental validation

Bio-inspired aquatic robotics by untethered piezohydroelastic actuation

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

Bistable attachments for wideband nonlinear vibration attenuation in a metamaterial beam

Broadband and band-limited random vibration energy harvesting using a piezoelectric patch on a thin plate

Broadband performance of a patterned piezoelectric energy harvester integrated with a continuous elastoacoustic mirror

Broadband piezoelectric power generation on high-energy orbits of the bistable Duffing oscillator with electromechanical coupling

Characterization of a bio-inspired piezoelectric swimmer in a quiescent water and under imposed flow

Characterization of hydrogel structural damping

Closure to “Discussion of ‘On the Role of Nonlinearities in Energy Harvesting: A Critical Review and Discussion’” (Daqaq, M., Masana, R., Erturk, A., and Quinn, D. D., 2014, ASME Appl. Mech. Rev., 66(4), p. 040801)

Combined piezoelectric and flexoelectric effects in resonant dynamics of nanocantilevers

Comparative Investigation of the Electroelastic Dynamics of Piezoceramics With Interdigitated and Uniform Electrodes

Comparison of various models for piezoelectric receivers in wireless acoustic power transfer

Contactless Ultrasonic Energy Transfer: Acoustic-Piezoelectric Structure Interaction Modeling and Performance Enhancement

Contactless ultrasonic energy transfer for wireless systems: acoustic-piezoelectric structure interaction modeling and performance enhancement

Coupling of experimentally validated electroelastic dynamics and mixing rules formulation for macro-fiber composite piezoelectric structures

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Design and Analysis of Piezoelectric Metamaterial Beams With Synthetic Impedance Shunt Circuits

Design and Modeling of Hydraulic Pressure Energy Harvesters for Low Dynamic Pressure Environments

Design and performance enhancement of hydraulic pressure energy harvesting systems

Deterministic and band-limited stochastic energy harvesting from uniaxial excitation of a multilayer piezoelectric stack

Digitally Programmable Resonant Elastic Metamaterials

Dimensionless analysis and scaling of a hybrid 3DOF airfoil-based piezoelectric-inductive aeroelastic energy harvester

Dispersion tailoring in varying-inductance piezoelectric metamaterials

Dramatic Enhancement of Elastic Wave Energy Harvesting Using a Gradient-Index Phononic Crystal Lens

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Dramatic bandwidth enhancement in nonlinear metastructures via bistable attachments

Dramatic effect of fluid damping on the performance of a nonlinear M-shaped broadband energy harvester

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Dramatic enhancement of structure-borne wave energy harvesting using an elliptical acoustic mirror

Dynamics of Hybrid Mechanical-Electromechanical Locally Resonant Piezoelectric Metastructures

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Effect of Material Constants and Mechanical Damping on Piezoelectric Power Generation

Effect of actuation method on hydrodynamics of elastic plates oscillating at resonance

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Effects of a piezoelectric based nonlinear energy sink on the behavior of an electromechanically coupled beam

Electroaeroelastic analysis of airfoil-based wind energy harvesting using piezoelectric transduction and electromagnetic induction

Electroaeroelastic modeling and analysis of a hybrid piezoelectric-inductive flow energy harvester

Electroelastic Bandgap Formation in Locally Resonant Metamaterial Beams With Piezoelectric Shunts: A Modal Analysis Approach

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Electroelastic Modeling and Experimental Validation of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting From Broadband Random Vibrations

Electroelastic modeling and experimental validations of piezoelectric energy harvesting from broadband random vibrations of cantilevered bimorphs

article published in 2012

Electroelastodynamics of flexoelectric energy conversion and harvesting in elastic dielectrics

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Electrohydroelastic Euler–Bernoulli–Morison model for underwater resonant actuation of macro-fiber composite piezoelectric cantilevers

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Electrohydroelastic dynamics of macro-fiber composites for underwater energy harvesting from base excitation

Energy Harvesting From Broadband Random Vibrations: Comparison of Single-Mode and Multi-Mode Electroelastic Solutions

Energy Harvesting From Hydraulic Pressure Fluctuations

Energy harvesting from acoustic fields for self-powered sensors in pumped fluid systems

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Energy harvesting from harmonic and noise excitation of multilayer piezoelectric stacks: modeling and experiment

Energy harvesting from hydraulic pressure fluctuations

Enhanced aeroelastic energy harvesting by exploiting combined nonlinearities: theory and experiment

Enhanced broadband piezoelectric energy harvesting using rotatable magnets

Equivalent Circuit Modeling of Patch-Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting on Plate-Like Structures With AC-DC Conversion

article published in 2015

Equivalent circuit modeling of a piezo-patch energy harvester on a thin plate with AC–DC conversion

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Equivalent electrical circuit framework for nonlinear and high quality factor piezoelectric structures

Evaluation of human-scale motion energy harvesting for wearable electronics

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Experimental Observation of Temporal Pumping in Electromechanical Waveguides

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Experimentally validated broadband self-collimation of elastic waves

Exploiting material softening in hard PZTs for resonant bandwidth enhancement

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Figure of merit comparison of PP-based electret and PVDF-based piezoelectric polymer energy harvesters

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Fish-Like Self Propulsion Using Flexible Piezoelectric Composites

Fourier transform-based design of a patterned piezoelectric energy harvester integrated with an elastoacoustic mirror

article published in 2015

Global nonlinear electroelastic dynamics of a bimorph piezoelectric cantilever for energy harvesting, sensing, and actuation

Graded multifunctional piezoelectric metastructures for wideband vibration attenuation and energy harvesting

Gradient-index phononic crystal lens-based enhancement of elastic wave energy harvesting

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Harvesting of Bending Waves in One-Dimensional Infinite Beams Using Resistive-Reactive Circuits

Hybrid piezoelectric-inductive flow energy harvesting and dimensionless electroaeroelastic analysis for scaling

Hydraulic pressure energy harvester enhanced by Helmholtz resonator

Hydrodynamic Thrust Generation and Power Consumption Investigations for Piezoelectric Fins With Different Aspect Ratios

Hydrodynamic thrust generation and power consumption investigations for piezoelectric fins with different aspect ratios

In vacuo elastodynamics of a flexible cantilever for wideband energy harvesting

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Internal resonance for nonlinear vibration energy harvesting

Introduction and Methods of Mechanical Energy Harvesting

Locally resonant metamaterials with shape-memory alloy springs

Low-Frequency Elastic Wave Focusing and Harvesting via Locally Resonant Metamaterials

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M-shaped asymmetric nonlinear oscillator for broadband vibration energy harvesting: Harmonic balance analysis and experimental validation

Macro-Fiber Composite Actuated Piezoelectric Robotic Fish

Mechanically and electrically nonlinear non-ideal piezoelectric energy harvesting framework with experimental validations

Merging mechanical and electromechanical bandgaps in locally resonant metamaterials and metastructures

Metamaterial Concepts for Structure-Borne Wave Energy Harvesting: Focusing, Funneling, and Localization

Metamaterial piezoelectric beam with synthetic impedance shunts

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Metamaterial-inspired structures and concepts for elastoacoustic wave energy harvesting

Modeling and Analysis of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting From Aeroelastic Vibrations Using the Doublet-Lattice Method

Modeling and Characterization of Elastic, Coupling, and Dissipative Nonlinearities in PZT Bimorphs for Vibration Energy Harvesting

article published in 2014

Modeling and Characterization of a Curved Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for Smart Paver Tiles

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Modeling and enhancement of piezoelectric power extraction from one-dimensional bending waves

Modeling and identification of nonlinear electroelastic and dissipative parameters for PZT-5A and PZT-5H bimorphs: a dynamical systems approach

Multifunctional Energy Harvesting Locally Resonant Metastructures

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Multifunctional Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Wing Spar for Low-Power Generation and Storage

Multifunctional double-bimorph piezoelectric composite for bending-twisting actuation, adaptive stiffness change, and energy harvesting

Multiple Patch-Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting From Multiple Vibration Modes of Thin Plates

Multiple patch–based broadband piezoelectric energy harvesting on plate-based structures

Multiple piezo-patch energy harvesters integrated to a thin plate with AC-DC conversion: analytical modeling and numerical validation

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Nanoscale flexoelectric energy harvesting

Nonlinear M-shaped broadband piezoelectric energy harvester for very low base accelerations: primary and secondary resonances

Nonlinear Structural Dynamics of Macro-Fiber Composite Cantilevers for Resonant Actuation

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Nonlinear Two-to-One Internal Resonance for Broadband Energy Harvesting

Nonlinear elastodynamics of piezoelectric macro-fiber composites with interdigitated electrodes for resonant actuation

Nonlinear modeling, strength-based design, and testing of flexible piezoelectric energy harvesters under large dynamic loads for rotorcraft applications

Nonlinear nonconservative behavior and modeling of piezoelectric energy harvesters including proof mass effects

Nonlinear piezoelectric plate framework for aeroelastic energy harvesting and actuation applications

Nonlinearities in resonant dynamics of piezoelectric macro-fiber composite cantilevers

Nonreciprocal piezoelectric metamaterial framework and circuit strategies

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 102 no. 1, July 2020

Numerical and experimental comparison of bistable and monostable vibration energy harvesters under broadband random excitation

Omni-directional lens for structure-borne wave focusing and energy harvesting

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On the Optimal Piezoelectric Material Distribution in Energy Harvesting From a Nonlinear Beam Under Axial Flow

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On the Origin of the Nonclassical Softening Nonlinearity in MEMS/NEMS Cantilevers

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On the Role of Nonlinearities in Vibratory Energy Harvesting: A Critical Review and Discussion

On the coupling of nonlinear macro-fiber composite piezoelectric cantilever dynamics with hydrodynamic loads

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On the efficiency of piezoelectric energy harvesters

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On the electrode segmentation for piezoelectric energy harvesting from nonlinear limit cycle oscillations in axial flow

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On the mechanism of bandgap formation in locally resonant finite elastic metamaterials

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On the stochastic excitation of monostable and bistable electroelastic power generators: Relative advantages and tradeoffs in a physical system

Optimal piezoelectric energy harvesting using elastoacoustic mirrors by frequency-wavenumber domain investigation

Parameter identification and optimization in piezoelectric energy harvesting: analytical relations, asymptotic analyses, and experimental validations

Phononic crystal Luneburg lens for omnidirectional elastic wave focusing and energy harvesting

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Piezoelectret foam–based vibration energy harvesting

Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

Piezoelectric energy harvesting for civil infrastructure system applications: Moving loads and surface strain fluctuations

Piezoelectric power extraction from bending waves: Electroelastic modeling, experimental validation, and performance enhancement

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Piezoelectric power generation for civil infrastructure systems

Piezoelectric, solar and thermal energy harvesting for hybrid low-power generator systems with thin-film batteries

Power Density Performance Improvements for High Pressure Ripple Energy Harvesting

Power conditioning for low-voltage piezoelectric stack energy harvesters

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Power performance improvements for high pressure ripple energy harvesting

Preface: Special topical issue on nonlinear energy harvesting

Programmable mode conversion and bandgap formation for surface acoustic waves using piezoelectric metamaterials

Radiation Characteristics of Cranial Leaky Lamb Waves

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Random vibration energy harvesting on thin plates using multiple piezopatches

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Resonant nonlinearities of piezoelectric macro-fiber composite cantilevers with interdigitated electrodes in energy harvesting

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Selective Wave Filtering in Time-Modulated Elastic Metamaterials

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Self-bending elastic waves and obstacle circumventing in wireless power transfer

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Size effects in piezoelectric cantilevers at submicron thickness levels due to flexoelectricity

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Soft and Hard Piezoelectric Ceramics and Single Crystals for Random Vibration Energy Harvesting

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Sound energy harvesting by leveraging a 3D-printed phononic crystal lens

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Structurally embedded reflectors and mirrors for elastic wave focusing and energy harvesting

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Three-Degree-of-Freedom Hybrid Piezoelectric-Inductive Aeroelastic Energy Harvester Exploiting a Control Surface

Time-Periodic Stiffness Modulation in Elastic Metamaterials for Selective Wave Filtering: Theory and Experiment

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Topological Edge States in Quasiperiodic Locally Resonant Metastructures

Toward structurally integrated locally resonant metamaterials for vibration attenuation

Transduction as energy conversion; harvesting of acoustic energy in hydraulic systems

Trout-like multifunctional piezoelectric robotic fish and energy harvester

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Tunable elastic metamaterials using rotatable coupled dual-beam resonators

Tunable metamaterial beam with shape memory alloy resonators: Theory and experiment

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Two Architectures for Bending-Twisting Flapping Using Macro-Fiber Composites

Ultrasonic power transfer from a spherical acoustic wave source to a free-free piezoelectric receiver: Modeling and experiment

Ultrasound acoustic wave energy transfer and harvesting

Underwater thrust and power generation using flexible piezoelectric composites: an experimental investigation toward self-powered swimmer-sensor platforms

Unified electrohydroelastic investigation of underwater energy harvesting and dynamic actuation by incorporating Morison's equation

Unified nonlinear electroelastic dynamics of a bimorph piezoelectric cantilever for energy harvesting, sensing, and actuation

Varying cross-section and axial strain-gradient effects in flexoelectric cantilevers at submicron thickness levels

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Vibration Characterization of the Human Knee Joint in Audible Frequencies

scientific article published on 25 July 2020

Vibration Sensing Systems Based on Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride) and Microwave-Assisted Synthesized ZnO Star-Like Particles with Controllable Structural and Physical Properties

scientific article published on 26 November 2020

Vibration Stimulation as a Non-Invasive Approach to Monitor the Severity of Meniscus Tears

Vibration attenuation in a nonlinear flexible structure via nonlinear switching circuits and energy harvesting implications