Abstract
Developing energy harvesting platforms that are strongly sensitive to the low and diffused frequency spectra of common environmental vibration sources is a research objective receiving great recent attention. It has been found that utilizing designs and incorporating structural influences that induce small values of linear stiffness may considerably enhance the power generation capabilities of energy harvesting systems. This research examines these two factors in new light toward the development of a biologically-inspired energy harvesting beam platform that exploits axial compressive effects and compliant suspensions. Through theory and experiments, it is found that the strategic exploitation of such characteristics promotes dramatic improvements in the average power that may be generated for the same excitation conditions. Examining the origin of these performance enhancements, it is seen that large compliance in the compressed axial suspensions facilitates a favorable redistribution of dynamic energy, which thereby enables greater bending of the harvester beam and increased electromechanical transduction.
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