Abstract
ABSTRACTThis work investigates the design of a vibration‐powered generator with one rod (unimorph) of iron–gallium (galfenol) and compares it with its two‐rod (bimorph) counterpart. Galfenol is a promising magnetostrictive material that combines high magnetic susceptibility and desirable mechanical properties and therefore very suitable for harvesting the vibration energy that involves bending stresses. In this study, an energy‐based magnetoelastic model, so‐called Armstrong model, is employed to predict the behavior of galfenol under multiaxial stresses. The Armstrong model of galfenol is implemented into a static 3D finite element model of the energy harvester by which the performances of the devices are predicted and experimentally observed. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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