Experimental investigation of fatigue in a cantilever energy harvesting beam

• Main Authors: Avvari, Panduranga Vittal, Yang, Yaowen, Liu, Peiwen, Soh, Chee Kiong
• Other Authors: Meyendorf, Norbert G.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Fatigue; DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering; Energy Harvesting
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88618; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46954
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Over the last decade, cantilever energy harvesters gained immense popularity owing to the simplicity of the design and piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) using the cantilever design has undergone considerable evolution. The major drawback of a vibrating cantilever beam is its vulnerability to fat...