Integration and Characterisation of Piezoelectric Macro-Fibre Composite on Carbon Fibre Composite for Vibration Energy Harvesting

Yu Shi, Chenhe Piao, Dounia El Fadlaoui, Ahmed Al-Saadi, Yu Jia

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Abstract

Carbon fibre composite is a strong and a lightweight structural material with applications in automotive, aerospace, medical and industrial applications. The integration of piezoelectric transducer films onto the composite stack can add vibration energy harvesting capabilities to enable net-zero-power autonomous sensing for an otherwise purely mechanical structure. A PZT macro-fibre composite is co-cured with a carbon/epoxy pre-preg in order to manufacture the multi-functional composite plate. Without noticeably increasing profile, adding weight or compromising mechanical integrity, the resultant mechanical plate can recover power from vibrational excitations. With a volume of 13.5cm3, a peak average power of 9.25mW was recorded at 2.66 ms−2. The normalised power density of 97 μW cm −3 m −2 s 4 is comparable to some of the state-of-the-art PZT generators reported in the literature.
Original languageEnglish
Article number012080
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume1407
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Dec 2019
EventThe 18th International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications - Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, Daytona Beach, United States
Duration: 4 Dec 20187 Dec 2018
https://powermems2018.org/

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